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  1. Lefty
    That was fast. Thanks.
  2. Lefty
    What time do gates open on game days at Wrigley?
  3. Lefty
    I don't think payroll is a problem. But I do believe Cuban would bring the organization into the 21st century. I am no basketball fan, but I recall reading a couple of years ago about some of the pioneering performance stats he used in Dallas.
  4. Lefty
    Well at least Rothschild fixed Marquis, remember that?
  5. Lefty
    While major league baseball requires constant adjustment vis a vis your opponent, one's mechanical approach must be consistent. Whatever imperfections there were in Hill's mechanics didn't prevent him from being successful. I don't know why they tinkered with him. They changed the release point from his very successful 2005-2007 run. Why would you do that?
  6. Lefty
    What does it say about Rothschild that Hill is supposed to get "fixed" at AAA. After Rothschild was working with him this whole time (and probably should have left him alone).
  7. Lefty
    I've seen Soriano stretch before a game. And he does it all wrong, although he may not be the only one. His stretches are the old "static" stretches. You sit and stretch one isolated muscle. While this is good for general flexibility, it is wrong to do before performance. That is because the stretch thins out the muscle making it more vulnerable over the short-term. Before performance he should be doing "dynamic" stretches, which incorporate compound muscle movements and body weight exercises like squats, lunges and pushups. It drives me nuts that I know more about this than Soriano. But Soriano has been doing this since he was a kid, he has been fantastically successful, so why change? You could argue this is the same attitude that influences his plate discipline.
  8. Lefty
    You tinker with a successful pro very carefully. See Hill, Rich 524 U.S. 53. I know a couple MLB hitting coaches. Most of their brethren got their jobs because they were former pros who knew somebody. They can teach most of us a lot about hitting. But when it comes to the pros, they usually wait until the player comes to them. So radically altering somebody is not going to happen unless the hitter wants to be torn down and rebuilt.
  9. Lefty
    Just to count again, 5 of Samardzija's flyouts were actually popups to the infielders. He seems to have a knack at doing that. Far be it from me to be an optimist, but I recall reading a couple of years ago either at Hardball Times or a piece from TangoTiger that inducing infield popups was a skill and the effect was similar to strikeouts (routine outs & no advancement).
  10. Lefty
    More of the perils of messing with imperfect but effective mechanics at the major league level.
  11. Lefty
    ...and bring up a hitter.
  12. Lefty
    Is saving a roster spot for this "position" not the worst use of resources in organized sports? Obviously Piggy's wonderful performance yesterday got me thinking about this. But even if you get the lefty out, the righty probably would have got him out too, and then when all the righties come up you bring the righty in anyway. And it's not like the LOOGY is lights out. If he was he wouldn't be strictly a LOOGY. And then you end up pinch-hitting your back-up shortstop late in the game because your fifth or sixth outfielder is in the PCL to make room for the LOOGY. Our situation is even more clear because our righties in the bullpen are pretty good, Wuertz historically has had a reverse platoon split, and Murton is a legit .290 Major League hitter. How long 'til Neal Cotts is up?
  13. Lefty
    Now Murton is losing playing time to a 30 year-old career minor leaguer? Mercy.
  14. Lefty
    No, but Center field is. I know, hes a left fielder, but surely, with his speed he could handle center, or put Fuku there and put Kenny in Rt. If we were gonna put Fuku in Center, why not just play Murton in Right? Signing Lofton would be a microcosm of what has been wrong with the Cubs historically. Or if we're putting Fuku in center, why not just play Murton in Left? Somehow I think Fonzie can figure out Right Field. You get my point.
  15. Lefty
    No, but Center field is. I know, hes a left fielder, but surely, with his speed he could handle center, or put Fuku there and put Kenny in Rt. If we were gonna put Fuku in Center, why not just play Murton in Right? Signing Lofton would be a microcosm of what has been wrong with the Cubs historically.
  16. Lefty
    Well, I would have caught it. Alou su**s.
  17. Lefty
    ..if they do, it will be because they surprised on the upside. Hard to imagine, but I guess I should view it as free call option on these guys.
  18. Lefty
    I think 60 starts from Marquis and Dempster will be hard to overcome.
  19. Lefty
    As I recall, I believe Soriano as a CFer emerged pretty quickly after his signing. It was the Floyd signing which turned Murton from the everyday LFer into a platoon player. The Soriano move to LF just moved the platoon to RF where Murton's defense, in Lou's eyes, hastened his demotion. While I can see the argument over Soriano both ways, the signing of Floyd, Hendry's total man crush manifesting itself, was the catalyst for all this. And that can be totally laid at Hendry's feet. And now we have a new argument. Was Fukudome over Murton necessary or worth it?
  20. Lefty
    Well Lou said last night that he would really like to see Murton get a major league job. And of course the context was that it would not be with the Cubs.
  21. Lefty
    One would think that hurdles would be his thing. He's crazy fast and can jump like that. Maybe the high jump? I don't know - maybe baseball just isn't his thing. Let's get a little perspective here. He has a Major League career, and he hasn't been the worst player either. He'll be arb eligible soon and will eventually make a couple of million dollars by the time he's in his early thirties. I think he "made it."
  22. Lefty
    I was glad at the time that we didn't sign him. I didn't even wring my hands about it when Lee got hurt. But we should have gotten Carlos Pena at the time. Then we could really wring our hands now.
  23. Lefty
    Last year's stats. I don't have full data, but these are the amount of ABs + BBs by order in Cub lineup. #1 757 #2 735 #3 716 #4 698 #5 683 #6 669 #7 655 #8 628 #9 602 I am sure some of you have sacrifice and HBP data to do a better job of this. But the amount of ABs that Theriot would take from far superior hitters is ridiculous. David Eckstein gives me hope that this is not fatal. Just stupid.
  24. Lefty
    So would we have rather had Omar Infante as our SS?
  25. Lefty
    I think it started with Tommy Herr and the 80s Cards teams. I believe Herr batted third on those teams.
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