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crunch 13 years 3 months ago (view)

threat against "unidentified female"...released on 50K bail...arrested at his home this morning. sounds like he let his mouth do too much talking...my own wild ass guess would be his ex-wife of 4 years...but who knows...

The Real Neal 13 years 3 months ago (view)

Wittenmeyer says the Cubs are working on a multi-year deal with Marmol... http://twitter.com/cst_cubs/status/27448101597876224 via mlbtraderumors.

crunch 13 years 3 months ago (view)

making criminal threats...no one cited as accuser yet... you have to make a specific threat to be charged for something like this

The Real Neal 13 years 3 months ago (view)

Hopefully Hendry learned his lesson about the roster slot and NTC for guys in A ball... but in this case, the guy can actually play some, it's not all about projection. It could be really interesting with him getting 600 PA's this year.

crunch 13 years 3 months ago (view)

he was benched after a boneheaded running error...officially "lapses in concentration" but the running error tipped the whole thing. it was a slew of things followed by an iceberg tipping...not an off-the-handle reaction to 1 thing or something like that...

Dr. aaron b 13 years 3 months ago (view)

Surely a non-violent one????

H_Vaughn 13 years 3 months ago (view)

I'll miss Gorz. By WAR, he's already the Nats third best pitcher. He'll never be more than a decent fourth starter on a good team, but he has nice stuff and competes. Hard to project any of those suspects is ever gonna be able to contribute nearly as much as Gorz has. Meh.

crunch 13 years 3 months ago (view)

milton bradley arrested and charged with "unknown" felony...should leak soon

Dr. aaron b 13 years 3 months ago (view)

And that is with excellent health and no production slippage. Not as stupid as the Tulo extension though. GMs still can't save themselves from themselves.

The Real Neal 13 years 3 months ago (view)

That quote he has is quite obviously used out of context. I never even noticed him benching Castro though. What was that for?

The E-Man 13 years 3 months ago (view)

Very interesting. An incredible athlete. I know "character" does not win Pennants sans talent, but it seems that Matt is a winner and will succeed in life. Reading about him being a bone marrow donor to someone not a family member, just to help save a life is pretty compelling. Hope he works out better than the Wideout.

The Real Neal 13 years 3 months ago (view)

MVP's rookies of the Year, HR's and RBI's all count, and Howard was significantly better than Votto at three of those four things. It's really hard to see Votto making more than $8 million, $12 million and $18 million in arbitration.

Jim Hickmans Bat 13 years 3 months ago (view)

Sounds to me like Montanez has Jose Macias' skill-set covered just fine. Guaranteed Chicago roster spot! /snark In reality, unless I'm missing something with Phil's earlier depth chart, it seems there is no one at Iowa to play in LF with Guyer traded away. So Montanez is organizational filler to cover LF there, that is unless Bobby Scales plans on playing some LF for the I-Cubs this year (and I thought Phil said he was going to start coaching? Or maybe that was Doobie). I'm not sure who plays SS for Iowa, either. Also, some good news: just saw a Twitter that Matt Szczur has picked the Cubs over the NFL. Woot! I'm guessing he'd be targeted for Peoria's OF, right Phil? Too much college experience to go to Boise.

crunch 13 years 3 months ago (view)

what a crock of shit... ...and that's about rosenbloom, not quade.

Jim Hickmans Bat 13 years 3 months ago (view)

In all fairness, the Cubs get a (rare) pass on that 1st round pick failure with Lovelace. I remember they got that pick in a deal with another team, I forgot who, but the Cubs used their own (higher) pick that year to choose some guy named Joe Carter. Pretty good pick....

Paul Noce 13 years 3 months ago (view)

Moo Moo, I love you.

Dr. aaron b 13 years 3 months ago (view)

He's got little power and a bad glove. At least he compensates a bit with attrocious plate discipline!!!!!

Arizona Phil 13 years 3 months ago (view)

The Cubs have signed 29-year old former 1st round draft pick (2000 #3 overall) OF Luis "Lou" Montanez to a minor league contract with an NRI to Spring Training. Montanez was one of biggest busts among Cubs 1st round draft picks over the years, especially if you consider the fact that he was the 3rd overall pick the year he was drafted. 1st overall pick Adrian Gonzalez, Chase Utley, and Adam Wainwright turned out to be the best players picked in the 1st round of the 2000 draft, but in the Cubs defense, Gonzalez was gone when the Cubs picked 3rd, and a number of teams passed on Utley and Wainwright. Montanez spent seven seasons (2000-06) in the Cubs minor league system before becoming a Rule 55 minor league FA post-2006 and signing a minor league contract with the Baltimore Orioles. He spent the past four seasons bouncing back & forth between AA Bowie, AAA Norfolk and Baltimore, hitting 223/251/323 with four HR and 11 doubles in 93 MLB games (266 PA). A right-handed hitter, Montanez can play all three OF positions. Montanez was signed by the Cubs as a SS out of a Miami HS in 2000, but was moved to the outfield in 2004. He has not played one inning in the infield since the move. He hit a career-high 26 HR for Bowie in 2008, but has only hit six dingers in the past two seasons.

DavidP 13 years 3 months ago (view)

There was another one that came from the same group. In 1981 the Cubs drafted a left handed pitcher out of the same HS that was said to be a close friend (and perhaps relative) of Scheffield. His name was Vance Lovelace, and had just about the best stuff I ever saw in a prospect. Fantastic fastball (no gun used in those days) and a slider to equal Marmols. Unfortunately, his control on his best day was worse than that of Marmol on his worst day. He was traded to the Dodgers for Ron Cey, but floundered in their system also. I believe he finally made it to the majors for a cup of coffee. There were all sorts of rumors about his being a drug abuser, but I sort of wrote them off when he was appointed a very high level scout with the Dodgers about 10 years ago. His fastball was better than that of Carl Hamilton, another lefty in the Cubs system that looked outstanding until injury knocked him out of baseball.

VirginiaPhil 13 years 3 months ago (view)

It sticks in my mind (and my craw) that Flaherty had 3 XBH's--3 doubles--in 82 at bats in the AFL recently. The pitchers couldn't all have been lefties. But . . . if Burgess and Vitters and Flaherty can start to live up to their lofty draft positions, that Tennessee lineup will be something to behold. I can dream, can't I?