With the late-July trading season approaching, the usual rule applies that you trade older, more expensive players at positions where you have a surplus. While I hope they make a few deals, this team does not need to be “blown up,” as some fans are saying. The Cubs won’t make the postseason, and the [...]
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Posted 01 July 2010
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Does anybody know what Lou means when he says that one of the team’s goals in the offseason is to get “more athletic”? He has said this in many interviews, most recently on XM radio yesterday. Lou often speaks cryptically but there’s usually a way to decode the message, and a meaning behind it.
Apart [...]
I thought Lou was not classy in the postgame on TBS. He blamed the players, and talked about twelve runs scored in six postseason games on his watch. He said you can’t win with this many runs unless your pitchers throw shutouts.
I don’t think he should have been praising his hitters but in the two [...]
1. Eric Patterson. One of the arguments against the Cubs’ straining too hard to acquire Brian Roberts was that they already had a budding Roberts in the organization in E-Pat. During spring training, as the Roberts deal flickered out, Lou Piniella was taking a good look at Patterson. Lou brought him up to Chicago for [...]
When Felix Pie was sent to DesMoines two weeks ago, his parachute failed to open and he landed in a heap. He was oh-for-sixteen through four games when he got his first hit, an opposite-field homer. After Sunday’s two-hit performance, he now stands at 5 for 44, a .114 clip.
He’ll do better, of course. [...]
I’m a big Felix Pie booster. I love his tools, and I still think his future is golden; but I don’t think he knows the first thing about hitting. He has three hitting coaches right now, Dave Keller, Gerald Perry, and Lou Piniella, and another, Von Joshua, back in Iowa, who are not helping him, [...]