Archive - Apr 27, 2008

I Bet You Didn't Use the Term Base-Clogging Even Once
"We talk about it. On-base percentage. We've been doing a better job. What can I say? Two of our new additions, (Reed) Johnson and Fukudome, have done a nice job in that regard."
- Lou Piniella

"We're second in the league in runs scored to Arizona, and to me, you score runs, you win. On-base percentage, hitting with men in scoring position, left on base -- those are all byproducts of how many runs you score."
- Lou Piniella

Moneyball was So 2003
"That'd be a great thing if that was contagious, because then we'd be like the Oakland A's. The big thing there is on-base percentage. That means you have a lot of chances to score a lot of runs and put pressure on the other team consistently."
- Daryle Ward

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Cubs go for the series win and a winning road trip (3-2).

Lilly is coming off his first win and best outing of the year, on Tuesday when he beat the Mets. Though his pitching line was pretty attractive--6IP, 4H, 1ER--he also walked four and needed a couple of key pitches to avoid some serious problems.

The Cubs may face a good test in young Lannan, who fanned 11 New York Mets in just six innings on April 17th, then blanked the Braves for seven innings this past Tuesday, on his way to a victory over John Smotz.

Ronny Cedeno, hitting .400 (10-for-25) over the last week, gets bumped up in the order to seventh, Henry Blanco gets the obligatory Sunday start for backup catchers, and Geovany Soto gets a much needed day off, during which he can contemplate an atrocity so awful, veteran baseball man Lou Piniella has never seen anything like it.

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