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Rest for the Future Weary
By way of Gordon Wittenmyer in the Sun-Times, Lou Piniella talks about the importance of finding days off for Soriano, Ramirez, Lee, et al.
Hmmm, sounds like what you could use, Lou, is a “super sub.”
Meanwhile the 26th Cub, Brian Roberts,
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Enemy Off-Season Update: The Brewers
Milwaukee's signing of outfielder Mike Cameron, made official on Monday, was just the latest maneuver in what has been a busy off-season for GM Doug Melvin.
The Brewers bid adieu (lot of French people up there in Milwaukee) to the following key players from the '07 club:
- Relievers Francisco Cordero and Scott Linebrink, who left for big free-agent money in Cincinnati and on Chicago's South Side, respectively. (Melvin made Cordero a competitive offer but has acknowledged he may have bungled the negotiations.)
- Longtime Brewer Geoff Jenkins, whose $9MM club option was declined. Jenkins signed with the Phillies.
- Catcher Johnny Estrada, who was made to learn that screaming at your boss while on television isn't a good career move. Estrada was traded to the Mets, who wound up non-tendering him.
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Looking In On Corey Patterson
Former Cub Corey Patterson has come a long way, and not in the direction any player wants to see his career go.
Since the Cubs traded Patterson to Baltimore in January, 2006, he's had seasons of .276 and .269, with OPS+ numbers of 94 and 80, OBPs of .314 and .304, and a combined 159 strikeouts and 42 walks.
On Friday, Baseball Prospectus (subscription) pointed out that as recently as 2000, Baseball America had this to say about Eric
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Behind Enemy Lines
With a quarter of the season in the books, it's time that our foes in the NL Central got the once over.
Pos | Team | W-L | PCT | GB | RS | RA | Pythg | Home | Away | 1-run | Extra | ||
1 | Cardinals | 27-16 | .628 | -- | 228 | 187 | 26-17 | 12-9 | 15-7 | 9-7 | 1-0 | ||
2 | Brewers | 20-23 | .465 | 7.0 | 188 | 173 | 23-20 | 11-9 | 9-14 | 7-5 | 1-2 | ||
3= | Cubs | 19-22 | .463 | 7.0 | 179 | 178 | 21-20 | 10-10 | 9-12 | 8-9 | 2-2 | ||
3= | Pirates | 19-22 | .463 | 7.0 | 161 | 178 | 18-23 | 7-13 | 12-9 | 3-8 | 1-1 | ||
5= | Astros | 15-28 | .349 | 12.0 | 159 | 198 | 17-26 | 13-9 | 2-19 | 4-10 | 0-3 | ||
5= | Reds | 15-28 | .349 | 12.0 | 190 | 253 | 16-27 | 10-12 | 5-16 | 7-9 | 0-1 |
Recent comments
crunch (view)
steele MRI on friday. counsell expects an IL stint.
no current plans for his rotation replacement.
hellfrozeover (view)
I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1.
crunch (view)
amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.
neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.
TarzanJoeWallis (view)
In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.
Eric S (view)
Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it).
crunch (view)
boo.
crunch (view)
smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.
this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.
crunch (view)
i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things. the default is delay. i would choose brown.
like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.
anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.
Childersb3 (view)
Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.
I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.
If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.
Give him a chance.
But Wesneski probably gets it
crunch (view)
alzolay...bro...