TCR Saturday Notes
- Lou says Sean Marshall is well on his way to securing a spot in the rotation.
"He has done absolutely nothing to hurt his chances," Piniella said. "He's throwing the ball as well as I've seen him throw it. He came in here as the front-runner and, truthfully, he hasn't lost that status."
- If you're missing Wrigley Field, you can print out and assemble your own thanks to this link I found through Baseball Musings. Or if you need some set pieces for a Godzilla movie you're filming.
- Jonathan Mayo goes through his Top 10 Cubs Prospects at cubs.com which has some nice bits of info including that Tyler Colvin has hit the weight room pretty hard while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery.
- THT has been doing their own farm system run-down and has the Cubs as 26th in baseball. They also did a composite top 100 list combining the results of some of the major prospect lists and came up with Josh Vitters as the #36 prospect in baseball.
- Jeff Passan pens an excellent piece on the fall of Mark Prior and the fallacy of his "perfect mechanics". There's a couple of good links within the article explaining some of the possible issues with Prior's delivery plus a bit of Dusty bashing. Also, we get a brief glimpse into the genius of a major league ballplayer:
“For a four-year stretch, everything was good, and then it suddenly happens?” Prior said. “Who knows? There may be some validity to the people who say it’s mechanics. I’m not changing. I don’t think there’s anything I specifically do that has caused my injuries. No one’s ever going to be able to tell me for certain that it is, either.
Stupid is as stupid does....
- Big League Stew thinks ballplayers taking out an ad in the newspaper to thank the fans of their old team is an antiquated practice ands asks for a little creativity - like skywriting! Also, I didn't realize the writer - Kevin Kaduk - wrote Wrigleyworld and grew up a Cubs fan.
- Reed Johnson has a blog and promises to make fun of Mike Fontenot in each one of his posts. This will be fantastic.
- Cubs face the Angels again today with Aaron Heilman on the mound. The game is on MLB.tv I see, so it's being televised somewhere.
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