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PITCHERS: 15
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Caleb Kilian
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
Alexander Canario
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Ben Brown, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Keegan Thompson, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

 



 

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Game 92 Thread / Reds @ Cubs (3 of 3)

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SP Bronson Arroyo
SP
*Ted Lilly
  6-7, 5.82, 91 K, 38 BB, 99 IP

9-5, 4.47 ERA, 105 K, 39 BB, 112.2 IP
       
CF
Jerry Hairston, Jr. SS
Ryan Theriot
SS
Jeff Keppinger
RF
*Kosuke Fukudome
RF
*Ken Griffey Jr.
1B
Derrek Lee
2B
Brandon Phillips 3B
Aramis Ramirez
LF
*Adam Dunn
C
Geovany Soto
3B
Edwin Encarnacion
CF
*Jim Edmonds
1B
*Joey Votto
LF
Mark DeRosa
C
David Ross
2B
*Mike Fontenot
P
Bronson Arroyo
P
*Ted Lilly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cubs go for the sweep as Bronson Arroyo matches up against the Cubs' new #4 starter.

Lilly was hit hard in his only start against the Reds this year (6 H, 5 ER in 6 IP), a loss back in mid-April; Arroyo, who seemed to be starting against the Cubs every time you turned around last season, going 0-3, 3.58 in five outings, is making his first appearance against the Wrigleys in 2008.

If Lilly emerges the winner this afternoon, the Cubs will have a trio of 10-game winners at the All-Star break for the first time since 1969, when four guys—Jenkins (13-7), Hands (11-8), Holtzman (11-5), and reliever Phil Regan (10-5)—hit the mark.

Of course, we all know how well that worked out.

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Dueling Game Threads to account for the increased interest in the Cubs following the magnificent first half, 7 all-stars, and the Harden trade. Customer responsiveness, another reason TCR is the best Cubs blog out there!

Ryan Howard puts the Cards behind early. I've been thinking that the Cubs immediate goal should be to bury this division early and set up the rotation for the playoffs and rest Z, Harden, Dempster, Soto, etc. General consensus is the Harden trade was about 08. True, but I think it's more specific than that..it's possible they'll choke (it's still Cubs laundry), but seems very likely this is a post-season team and that the trade is built solely around October 2008. Front-line pitching is so much more important it seems in short series than in a prolonged season.

(making up for limitted postings by CA-Phil, whose only redeeming TCR quality is having more electoral votes than AZ Phil)... this lineup sucks..

sorry about the double threads, my contribution was that if Lilly doesn't get the win today, then Z and Dempster would be the first pair since 1977 (Rick Reuschel and Burris)with 10 or more wins at the Break. and will Geovany Soto ever get a day off? sorry about eating the TLFC super computer prediction...hopefully he'll put it back up.

and dodgers and phils interested in AJ Burnett....

Seeing Michael Wuertz in the third inning is never a good sign. Should start raining in the next 5-10 minutes anyway. Maybe after the inevitable delay we'll see Gaudin for a long relief spot.

C-Pat goes in to play CF in the top of the 8th, then Dusty pinch-hits for him in the bottom of the 8th with the Reds up by 5 runs. Cold. Very cold.

If you're watching, the Reds were just sitting on that BP fastball of Lilly's - a quick hook by Lou, but a necessary one. Decent outing by our new middle - relief man, albeit with one HR. Looked better than Weurtz, at least. Dunn's HR cleared the park, btw. Looked like it was still rising as it flew over the bleachers.

This was like that game Leiber started only we actually had a few shots to get back in the game. Ah well won the series..mission accomplished...now lets do the same with the Giants.

3:09 PST on July 10th, 2008: the moment in which Willie Bloomquist hits his first extra base hit of the season. I wonder how he's kept his job the past five seasons.

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In reply to by Rob G.

well any time you can become manager you can move dlee/aram to the leadoff spot and let fuku/theriot hit them in. let's at least stay in the same ballpark here...we're talking about end-rotation hitters without much power in most cases. we're also talking about what may be (and probably is) a statistical blip given some of these studies show the positive of hitting your pitcher 8th is around .05 runs. i don't see anything positive about moving a worse hitter up (usually 1/2 the batter of the guy he's replacing) just to gain that .05 run advantage which may or may not be a sound finding, even if true.

With Lou Piniella saying in the post-game presser that the Cubs can't stay at 13 pitchers post-ASB (and it sounds like he would prefer to have the 13th pitcher replaced with a position player immediately), one thing to keep in mind is that if Michael Wuertz is optioned out for at least 20 days, the Cubs buy another year of control over him.

If Wuertz continues to accrue MLB ST without losing anything to time spent on optional assignment to the minors, he will hit 6+007 MLB ST at the end of the 2010 season, and he can then be a FA. But by going out on optional assignment for at least 20 days, he cannot get credit for a full season of MLB ST in 2008, and in fact would enter the 2009 season with no more than 3+159 MLB ST, meaning the earliest he could hit six years would be early in the 2011 season, rather than late in the 2010 season. And that would delay his becoming a FA by one year.

Wuertz has one minor league option left, and although he would have to clear Optional Assignment Waivers in order to be optioned out, these particular type of waivers are almost always just a formality because they are revocable. Most teams place all of the players on their 40-man roster who would require Optional Assignment Waivers in order to be sent to the minors on waivers at the beginning of each waiver period just to get it out of the way. And then once the player clears Optional Assignment Waivers, the waivers are good for the entire waiver perioid (the current one runs through July 31st).

As for which positon player the Cubs might bring up until Soriano is ready, I would think Felix Pie (326/370/488 in nine games at AAA Iowa since returning from his "rehab" at Fitch Park) and Jake Fox (288/370/522 with 6 HR and 28 RBI in his last 35 games at AA Tennessee) would be easy moves that could be undone without difficuluty.

The problem with bringing Jason Dubois up from Iowa is that he is out of minor league options, so sending him back to the minors would require getting him through Outright Assignment Waivers, which are irrevocable. It may be that the Cubs would be willing to take on Dubois while he's hot (he hit three more HR last night), and then just risk losing him on waivers to another club once Soriano returns. But recalling Pie or Fox and then optioning them back to the minors once Soriano returns would be easy.

I assume Dubois is there for a potential Sept. call-up to bring a power (although quite iffy) RH bat off the bench in Sept. I also assume they would want to see more out of Felix than a good 9-game stretch -- probably depends on Sori's time frame. Looks like we get Cain Friday and Lincecum Sunday. Nuts.

Speaking of pitching matchups -- the Reds wills send Fogg to the mound tomorrow vs. the Brewers. A quick look at Fogg's career stats begs the question "How the hell is this guy still in MLB?" Truly amazing.

I think we saw Wuertz pitch his last game in a Cubs uniform today. From the postgame comments Lou wants another OF and Wuertz just doesnt have a role. Lou doesnt trust him in close games and you have Lieber, Marshall and now Gaudin to work long relief. I think he will be DFA'd before tomorrow's game and Torres will take his spot on both the 25 and 40 man roster. Wuertz then will likely be traded to the Marlins for one of the prospects that was involved in that aborted JJ trade last year.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7774 for those of you who get baseball prospectus, here is the link to C Kahrl's Transaction of the Day column. It's a detailed take on both the Oakland and Cub sides of the trade. Pretty scathing in spots, mostly ranting about why Oakland/Beane would make this deal: excerpts... Why make a deal with the Cubs, who just don't have all that much to offer? ------ On some level, I segregate this deal into two segments, because I'm merely human and I create patterns where none might exist. First, I put Gaudin for Gallagher to one side as something of a push, where the benefits are pretty straightforward: Gaudin's getting expensive through arbitration, where Gallagher's five years removed from free agency and three years younger. Consider it an exchange of an established fourth starter for a potential fourth starter, with the attendant cost savings. The problem is that this leaves you with Patterson, Murton, and Donaldson for Harden. Somebody would bite on that? Billy Beane would bite on that? Where's Felix Pie? Where's Rich Hill? Where's... well, something or somebody with real upside? This is it?

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In reply to by Rob G.

interesting you should say he/she there...lotta people forget she is transgender. she's got cred, though...but yeah, she's selling gallagher short even if a lot of people are kinda shocked that's all beane wanted in a tight market for starters and more than a few teams to play off each other. wonder what beane sees in epat and murton anyway...well, murton is his type of player, but that's only on paper. he's so f'n mixed up and constantly changing EVERYTHING about his plate approach. early in his career this was a positive...showing he's open for adaptation and coachable, but he's yet to find a comfort zone of consistency in the batter's box for how he wants to set himself up to receive the pitcher's offerings.

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In reply to by Chad

"I have never seen she as a transgendered pronoun. I was always told to use he as a default." well yeah...you're told lots of weird things =p general rule...if they're transgender (aka, not a cross dresser) most prefer the gender they've changed to. and to add confusion to it...cross dressers throw a lotta that out the window and not counting the drag-queens more than you'd suspect are straight...its a "weird perversion" to some straight men kinda like those people that lick feet and other stuff. yeah...go cubs. and damn all those years in the club/rave scene as a promoter...you meet some "interesting" people you have to work with. yeesh.

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In reply to by crunch

You meet some awfully interesting people here as well. There's a person of undefined gender named "HollywoodChad" who shows up in Parachat regularly. I'm fairly certain s/he's into baseball only to gaze at the players...and maybe the grounds crew as well. There were rumors that s/he's into witchcraft, ponies!1!! and BEES??!! as well, but I'm not sure that any of that's to be taken seriously. Also the son of the world's most famous sex addict comes by regularly. I'm not sure how that's relevant, but everybody, especially Carlos seems to have her regularly. It's really quite awkward.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7780 also in baseball perspective is the Joe Sheehan take on the trade (some of this is pretty funny...love the Sirotka'd line!): exceprts... Yet with all that, well, this is basically a free Rich Harden. If you’re the Cubs, the risk involved in making this trade is so low as to make it a no-brainer. The package of players they gave up will not be missed. --------- This is not to say that Harden is damaged goods, that he’s going to get hurt, that the Cubs got Sirotka’d. This is to say that no one in this deal, and no one breaking it down on the internet, has a firm grip on what Rich Harden is. He could be one of the 10 best pitchers in the National League. He could also be to the 2008 Cubs what Mark Prior was to the last two editions—a potentially great pitcher who never takes the mound. --------- Eric Patterson is Ray Durham Lite --------- We can say with some certainty that Murton is the biggest winner in the trade, given that the Cubs have done everything but sign Andre Dawson and exhume Hack Wilson to play in front of him. -------- There’s an argument that the Cubs didn’t just get the best player in the deal—they got the two best players.

I think Wuertz should have trade value. He's experienced and has hot streaks were he does excellent work. Just not this year. He's been erratic but so infrequently used that he's not gotten into Lou's regular bullpen rotation.

billybucks: Speaking of pitching matchups -- the Reds wills send Fogg to the mound tomorrow vs. the Brewers. A quick look at Fogg's career stats begs the question "How the hell is this guy still in MLB?" Truly amazing. Wasn't Fogg & Kip Wells in the same rotation at one point? Scary stuff.

Rumor Alert~ I have a contact in MLB circles who talked to a Cardinal scout that Matt Holliday will be traded to Cardinals in next couple of weeks. Take it for what its worth.

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In reply to by jacos

I have also heard the Rox have a boner for Anthony Reyes. Don't know why. If the witch doctor of pitching can't make him right, he may not ever get it. He is still young, though., at 26. Still don't know how they have enough to get Holliday if they make Rasmus untouchable. Put that Perez kid in there, maybe. I don't know.

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In reply to by Wes

the only thing the witch doctor did with Reyes is keep telling him to pitch completely differently than he did before he got to the majors. No wonder he struggled.

Not even two full years ago the Chicago Cubs contained such gems as: J. Pierre M. Murton J. Jones J. Mabry B. Coats A. Pagan F. Bynum S. Moore M. Barrett Anybody miss Freddie Bynum? I didn't think so.

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In reply to by big_lowitzki

Well, a lot of people who didn't like Barrett are the same sort of people who didn't like Murton. I'm sure that gets right to the heart of your perplexedness. Sure, he could hit a little. But, that was IT. BB was speaking about Dunn's fielding prowess (or lack thereof) yesterday, and said the following, which I think also applies to Barrett, "If he could take his bat out to the field, he probably would, because that glove ain't doing him any good." Sure, he was probably was a net positive because of how good his bat was. And, he wasn't moved to C until he became a professional. And, by all accounts he was a nice enough fellow, but he was a god damned butcher. And I still hate him for that stupid play in Philly. See? Now you've went and got me all angry thinking about Barrett again.

I wonder what the conspiracy theory represents here - do they think the club's employing pitch spotters in the CF scoreboard? Shades of the Bobby Thompson Giants? A bit paranoid, perhaps? Patriots haters? Mulder, Scully?

I just took a second to look at the AZL Cubs stats, and there are some players that are really kicking butt down there. 19-year-old Julio Pena has started off really well as a RHP, with a 0.52 ERA, and a 0.72 WHIP. There are also several position players lighting it up - Jericho Jones, Sean Hoorelbeke, John Contreras, and Nelson Perez. I am very aware that it is early, and at this time of year, there is quite a logjam in the low-level minors, due to all the draft picks just starting up. I wonder how long these guys will stay down in AZL if they keep up at this rate....

"Barrett is considered bad?" It wasn't just his defense behind the plate that annoyed some - his handling of the pitching staff was suspect as well. Notwithstanding the connection with Hill, he didn't appear to have a lot of confidence from the staff regarding calling a game (but perhaps the manager/pitching coach do that primarily these days) - and you don't get into fisticuffs with your ace on the bench. That pretty much said it all, didn't it? If Barrett could've played the OF, perhaps he'd be a more valuable player. But the predominate view around the leagues are that you go for defensive ability first in a catcher, and any additional offense you get is gravy. Thank goodness the Cubs don't have to worry about either talent regarding Soto. Best player at that position (so far) since Jody Davis.

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In reply to by Dmac

And once again - I get the defensive liabilities. But I think the pitch calling thing is bs. Don't get me wrong - I don't think that Barrett was amazing. I just think that he is wrongly vilified around here. And Soto appears to be a significantly better offensive player than Jody Davis. Davis had an OPS+ over 100 just once. Davis never had an OBP over .316 and only once had a SLUG over .428. And Soto has impressed me defensively, though I don't remember much about Davis' defense.

Big L., If you ever pitched at the high school level or above, and/or coached a group of pitchers, and/or managed a team in a competitive travel level (14U or above) you would change your opinion of that 'pitch calling thing'. Ask Wes if you don't believe that. Sure, the pitcher ultimately decides what he wants to throw (box score says losing pitcher, not losing catcher), but it sure is delightful to have a catcher who knows your stuff, mechanics and the hitters. When you can just look down for the sign and concentrate on repeating your delivery, it doesn't get much better than that. On top of all that, Barrett was (and probably still is) a baseball ass-hat. The juice was never worth the squeeze.

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In reply to by George Altman

Delightful, yes. Easier, yes. More painless, yes. Makes me less angry at you for being an idiot, yes. But, as I've said before, not necessary. Unless, as a pitcher, you're either A) an idiot, or B) stubborn. I have been accused of being both. I like to think that they the catcher who "called a good game" was a benefit to me to some extent. You may inclined to believe that I had a lot of catchers smarter than me. 3 or 4 times a game those kids will drop down a sign that I hadn't thought of. It isn't what I wanted to throw, but it's sure a good diea. At the same time, I also had a few dumber than me. I said earlier that I think that 'the catcher I have to shake off all the time' is a benefit if he's a horse at the plate. One kid in short-season ALWAYS called for my curve on a 3 ball count, which I couldn't throw for a strike if my life depended on it. I used to get so fucking angry. I'd step off. He'd come out. I'd put my glove over my face and yell at him until I got blue in the face. I always thought he was the real life version of Rube Baker from Major League 2. But, then the kid drove in 70 in short season. Ended up being a net positive. Kind of like Barrett. Give me some runs, you can call whatever the hell you want. Shaking you off once or twice isn't going to ruin this AB. At the same time, if you're going to help me pitch a better baseball game, I don't really care if you hit worse than I do. But, that's all just my opinion.

Submitted by Chifan on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 11:06am.

Doesnt Wuertz have enough service time to reject a minor league assignment?

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CHIFAN: Michael Wuertz has enough MLB Service Time (MLB ST)  to reject an OUTRIGHT Assignment to the minors, but not enough MLB ST to reject an OPTIONAL Assignment to the minors.

While a player needs only three years of MLB ST in order to reject an Outright Assignment to the minors, a player needs at least five years of MLB ST in order to reject an Optional Assignment. At the time he was optioned to Iowa (today), Wuertz had accrued 3+109 MLB ST. So as long as he has a minor league option left (and he does have one), he would be able to reject an Outright Assignment, but not an Optional Assignment.

Once he spends at least 20 days on Optional Assignment to the minors in 2008, his final minor league option is used up (although he can be sent back-and-forth to the minors throughout the balance of the 2008 season), and he cannot accrue a full year of MLB ST, which would take him below four years of MLB ST entering the 2009 season and would delay his eligibility to be a FA by one year (post-2011 instead of post-2010).

But if he spends less than 20 days on Optional Assignment to the minors in 2008, his final minor league option is NOT used, he gets credit for a full season of MLB ST, and he stays on target to be a FA post-2010.

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Javier Assad started the Lo-A game (Myrtle Beach versus Stockton) on the Cubs backfields on Wednesday as his final Spring Training tune-up. He was supposed to throw five innings / 75 pitches. However, I was at the minor league road games at Fitch so I didn't see Assad pitch. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.