Coach C

A little bummed here, but Halladay is starting tomorrow's game over Greinke.

Seems to be, since he's laying off those sliders, or at least making contact instead of whiffing it badly.

There ya go.

One more out, plz.

I was actually anticipating that it was going to die out there. Somehow, it got out. Great inning so far.

GONE!

Fantastic AB by Soriano! Made the pitcher waste alot of pitches, and got on base.

A solid AB here. He's fouling off alot of pitches. Making that pitcher work.

Ouch, that's gonna hurt for a few days....

Yet, against Zambrano, his line is .250/.333/.554 with a .887 OPS.

1-2-3 inning. Good start.

Ditto here. Apparently, it just died out there.

Perhaps the Cubs probably will get Tony Pena Jr off of the Royals hands? Heh, heh, heh. And I'm not liking this move by Dayton. I thought Dayton was going to improve this team, but from the looks of it, it's hardly any different than the previous years. It's sickening. And Trey Hillman is an idiot.

IIRC, Smoltz will make his first start for the Red Sox this Thursday against Washington.

Zack's line against the Astros for his 9th (finally) win. IP - 8 H - 8 ER - 1 BB - 0 K - 5

This.

I remember during the strike, that guy was the living symbol of all that is wrong with major league baseball. Good riddance.

Went to the Cards/Royals game on Fathers Day on Sunday, and my dad wondered why nobody walks him anymore. Grand Slam hit. Solo shot hit. Not exactly the best of shots, but I was in the upperdeck at the K, so I thought it was decent, despite being way up there in the View Level Infield section.

Unfortunately. I was hoping that Sunday would be the day (where I'm taking my father, father-in-law, and my grandpa) that he would be pitching. Although, Meche is pitching that day, I would still perfer Greinke. But then, Meche is a better option than Davies and Bannister. I just hope that 130+ pitches won't come back and bite Meche, come Sunday.

Milton Bradley has been placed on the 15 day disabled list, to recover his broken pride, along with learning how to add.

Yeah, it was one of those days where a pitcher gets hit hard. Even the outs were hard hits. I have no doubt he'll bounce back.

Very few teams will ever cut a player who is both making over 1 million dollars and has another year left on his contract. Teams will cut high salary players that are gone at the end of the season, but they will rarely commit to having dead money in future years. Both Miles and Freel should not be DFA'd and there's a good reason why..depth. If they both leave the team and Scales and/or Blanco get hurt, who gets called up next? You could end up in a situation where you have a player that is absurdly bad getting playing time instead of just being a fringe major leaguer like those four are. That doesn't even take into account that Miles had a .229 advantage in OPS in 07 over Blanco and a .090 advantage last year, and that's with him playing in the major leagues and Blanco in the PCL. A healthy Miles is almost certainly a decent upgrade with the bat to Blanco (unless Blanco is finally starting to figure hitting out, which is somewhat unlikely but still possible at his age). Yes, Blanco is a very big upgrade defensively from Miles. So it's really a tossup if you want the extra hitting or the extra defense, and since their primary position is going to each be second base, which lowers the defensive advantage that Blanco has over Miles, I'd still rather take Miles. I wouldn't take Miles if I had to pay him that contract, but the team has to pay the contract anyway at this point. Freel vs Scales is a different argument I think. Scales is probably the better hitter and defender at this point. I would probably keep Freel for depth purposes until Ramirez comes back and then he would be the one who I would let go to make room for Ramirez on the roster. Of course the teams won't ever cut a player, because they are afraid to admit that they are wrong. Of course teams could have easily prevented that so-called "Dead money" had they not signed them in the first place, as most of us knew that Miles wasn't that good to begin with anyways. Besides, while Miles may be a little bit better on the offensive side, Blanco is worlds better on the defensive side than Miles is, and if we're gonna use "depth" as of this point, Blanco is the perfect defensive infielder sub that the Cubs could use in the late innings. Basically though, it just comes down to the teams not wanting to admit they were wrong, especially when the fans are getting tired of that certain player. It took forever for Kansas City to release Scotty Elarton. He was just awful before he came to Kansas City, and he really sucked and the fans were really letting him and the Royals have it, and the Royals somehow mysteriously put Elarton on the 15 day DL, just to save face, and even when Elarton was in the minors, he was flat out getting dominated in the minors. Yet The Royals brought him back, against the Yankees, full house, and what happens? He got his rear-end handed right back to him, and I have never heard the crown boo at anybody merciously than that day. They finally DFA'ed him the next day.

that part won't last But that's just icing, right? Miles can't hit and his defense is worse than Blanco's. If 2 middle infielders can't hit, might as well take the great defensive player. this. having said that, Miles isn't getting DFA, IMO. they didn't give him a two year deal just so they could give up on him 2 months into the season. And there lies the problem with this organization. They won't cut ties when it's apparent that the player they signed is no longer capable of doing the job. No siree, they won't admit to making a mistake. Of course, the Cubs never admit making mistakes, or so they say.

Agreed.