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jimmypasta

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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 5:18 pm

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LOS ANGELES -- Chicago Cubs second baseman Darwin Barney went into spring training competing for a spot on the team. He earned a spot in the starting lineup, and Tuesday was named National League Rookie of the Month for April.

Barney hit .326 with one home run and 14 RBIs in April, with four doubles, a pair of triples and 15 runs scored. Unfortunately for Barney, he is not on the All-Star ballot. The Cubs listed Blake DeWitt, not Barney, as their starting second baseman when asked by MLB before the season began.

"It's nothing that's ever been on my mind," Barney said Monday night.

Tampa Bay, however, was able to substitute outfielder Sam Fuld on the All-Star ballot for Manny Ramirez, who retired last month after failing a drug test.

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Phil McCracken

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jimmypasta wrote:

Good he deserves it. One of the few bright spots of the Quade era so far.

jimmypasta wrote:

Tampa Bay, however, was able to substitute outfielder Sam Fuld on the All-Star ballot for Manny Ramirez, who retired last month after failing a drug test.

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Waiting for Frank's comments on a team he despises. :lol:

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Phil McCracken wrote:

jimmypasta wrote:

Tampa Bay, however, was able to substitute outfielder Sam Fuld on the All-Star ballot for Manny Ramirez, who retired last month after failing a drug test.

A guy in my office picked him up in our fantasy league last week. He's 1 for his last 25 or something

Which means he'll probably go 29 out of his next 25

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Just shows how bad our pitching has been. I don't know anyone who thought Barney would get off to this good of a start.

Before the season started, if you had Aramis', Starlin's, Darwin's and Alfonoso's stats, you would have predicted the Cubs 5-6 games over .500

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"Fly away buzzard, fly away crow, way down south where the winds don't blow. Rub your nose and give two winks and save us from this awful jinx..
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Lay off the tide Jeffro

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Lay off the overused tide bit, everyone :roll:

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Northside_Dan wrote:

True story. But Dumpster has been absolutely terrible and the fact that the Cubs only had one possible ML ready pitcher in their entire system so that they had to rely on multiple starts from James Russell is a bad sign.

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immessedup17 wrote:

I'd rather Kosuke hit 3rd

No thanks.

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immessedup17 wrote:

Dethklok wrote:

immessedup17 wrote:

I'd rather Kosuke hit 3rd or 6th or something.

Take a close look at Kosuke's trend over the last 4 years starting in May and tell me if you still want him 3rd. By July you'd want him straight up released. He's notorious for a solid April, a decent May, a dragging June, a lagging July, a sagging august and straight up September impotence.

We all know he hits well early in a season and drops off late.

The slot he bats in has never changed this though, he has batted in the 3 hole in years past and did just fine in the early months. I'm more worried about where Starlin Castro should hit rather than where Kosuke Fukudome shouldn't hit.

Starlin Castro's development is of the ultimate importance, and in the three hole he looks like he is taking too many big cuts and trying to do too much. His approach at the top of the order was different, you can visually tell as much.

I think we all know that Koskue isn't a number 3 hitter. But the problem is nobody on this Cubs roster is really a decent number 3 so no matter who they put there it is not going to be the best fit.

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They don't have a real number 3 hitter on the whole roster.

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Phil McCracken

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Dethklok wrote:

If Quade doesn't recognize this simple fact, he needs to be gone as it's glaring, you can't miss it.

Ready to fire Quade after a month eh?

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Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 9:42 am

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Dethklok wrote:

I think Quade is a VDN type coach, a placeholder, not a serious manager.

No shit.

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Dethklok wrote:

Phil McCracken wrote:

Dethklok wrote:

If Quade doesn't recognize this simple fact, he needs to be gone as it's glaring, you can't miss it.

Ready to fire Quade after a month eh?

Yes. I think he was really the worst guy for the job. He's way overmatched by just about anyone he plays against. He's got his hottest power hitter in Soriano batting 6th, his best leadoff hitter in years batting 3rd, and none of this says "Smart Fella" to me.
I think Quade is a VDN type coach, a placeholder, not a serious manager.

I don't think Quade is the greatest manager in the world but you could bring in mid 70's Sparky Anderson and he isn't going to be storming the castle with the players on the Cubs roster either. Soriano should NOT be hitting above 6th even if he is off to a hot start.

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Dethklok wrote:

Douchebag wrote:

Dethklok wrote:

I think Quade is a VDN type coach, a placeholder, not a serious manager.

No shit.

Who is he holding place for though? LaRusaa? :lol:

I think everyone knew who the Bulls really wanted all along. Who is it that Quade is keeping the seat warm for?

Hendry is going to become GM/Manager

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Dethklok wrote:

immessedup17 wrote:

I'd rather Kosuke hit 3rd or 6th or something.

"Straight up" and "impotence" in the same sentence. Amusing.

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Dethklok wrote:

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Why? It's not written in stone. Can't the Cubs have him hitting 3rd and belting dingers while he's getting them? Then when he starts expanding his zone down and away like he does you can move him. 9 of his 11 HR's were with bases empty (7 were leading off an inning). Why not try to get some guys on when he's gonna wail on one?

No because he will change his approach and strike out more hitting 3rd. If you haven't seen that Soriano is a streaky hitter but one that can't really be trusted facing a good reliever in a big spot at the end of a game. Soriano is not a 3 hitter no matter how hot of a start he gets off to. Even with all of the Homers I think he is still has an OBP under .300

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Dethklok wrote:

Your anicdotal evidence is amusing but it's really not very true.
Career stats batting 3rd are .260, .310, and .450. I wouldn't mind seeing that out of a 3rd spot right about now, with the OBP that Barney and Castro have.
Late inning PA's? There's many flavors of Clutch stats but late and close aren't bad...
.266 .332 .452

Cool story bro. Have fun batting Soriano 3rd in your lineup.

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Dethklok wrote:

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Cool story bro. Have fun batting Soriano 3rd in your lineup.

As opposed to whom? Pena? Castro? Who would be better in 3rd in your lineup?
I'm just advocating the hottest hitter of the month that's all. When he starts his whiff parade, feel free to move Pena and his .150 average back into the power slot.

EDIT: Ideally, I would prefer Ramirez to bat 3rd.

I could go back and find the thread where I began banging the drum for batting A-Ram third but I don't feel like it. If you scroll up a few posts you will see that I think all Cubs fans agree that the real problem is there is no traditional 3 hitter on this team as it is constructed at the moment. Hendry is a fat bully.

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Soriano's stats are really interesting this year. He has a very low BABIP of .235, but a crazy high HR/FB ratio of 28%. Basically he should be hitting more singles/doubles but less homeruns which is what we can expect moving forward.

His strikeout rate is very high at 25% this year, I tend to agree with Phil about keeping him 6th/7th.

His career stats batting 3rd is 260/310/450 while batting 6th is 275/326/516

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Dethklok wrote:

A bully? What does that mean?

You need to have some Cubs discussions with our resident Cubs expert whistler. May God have mercy on your soul.

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Kind of makes it rough when your always playing catch-up,too. F'ing starting pitchers are getting their asses handed to them.

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jimmypasta wrote:

Kind of makes it rough when your always playing catch-up,too. F'ing starting pitchers are getting their asses handed to them.

That's really what it is.

With all the hand wringing we are doing about the lineup, worst ERA in the National League is the issue.

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Northside_Dan wrote:

jimmypasta wrote:

Kind of makes it rough when your always playing catch-up,too. F'ing starting pitchers are getting their asses handed to them.

That's really what it is.

With all the hand wringing we are doing about the lineup, worst ERA in the National League is the issue.

I still can't get over the fact that when Wells and Cashner both went down they only had one option ready to bring up from the minors. It is a joke that Russel has started as much as he has. Where have you gone Jason Marquis.

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Last night was a model win,if it can happen more often.....(doubt it)

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immessedup17 wrote:

I like Dethklok.

Same. I disagree about his Soriano point, but he's at least another functioning brain that posts in this section. Brings our total to 4 I think? Maybe 5?

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When it comes to the Cubs,I hope I'm in THAT group at least.

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