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#Post#: 3149--------------------------------------------------
Re: On the Farm
DIR By: davep
Date: April 23, 2011, 1:52 pm
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I suspect there are two factors at play. First, many posters
are so vested in the thought that the Cubs farm system sucks
that it is difficult to believe that a particular product of
that system might be good. And second, when Barney effectively
plays first base, he does not have the power potential that we
would usually wish for from that position.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Deeg
Date: April 23, 2011, 1:54 pm
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Who's arguing that Barney should be benched now? I think the
point - a good one - is that he's likely to revert to a sub-.700
OPS guy based on his career so far. Low walks, no power is a
bad combination and he's likely to find his level sooner or
later. He's certainly a major-league player and who knows,
maybe he'll shock and be a perennial .300 hitter. If he doesn't
hit .300, though, he's likely to be a net minus offensively
based on his other numbers.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Cactus
Date: April 23, 2011, 1:58 pm
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Darwin Barney = Sam Fuld?
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: craig
Date: April 23, 2011, 2:10 pm
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I agree with Tom, that posters do tend to doubt that a guy on a
hot streak will stay hot forever. Which makes sense. Barney
has been a long-standing no-walk no-power singles hitter in the
minors. So when he has a big-league month at .333, it's natural
and logical to anticipate that he'll likely revert to or below
his minor league average.
It's probably kind of old-fashioned and traditional, but I think
a lot of us still envision 1B as being a position where good
teams normally have a hitter with some power and OPS and all
those kinds of shallow things.
Hendry has instead taken a creative and innovative approach in
which it's a defensive position. Pena is hitting .180 with one
double on the season; and versus LHP he's replaced with
no-walks-no-power singles Barney.
I agree with deeg that it's doubtful that Barney will end up
hitting .330 or winning the batting title, although I hope he
does. But I also agree withTom that it's not exactly all that
likely that some journeyman like Louis Montanez would hit any
better than Barney, even if Montanez could play 1B.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Tom Hudson
Date: April 23, 2011, 2:15 pm
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I agree with deeg that it's doubtful that Barney will end up
hitting .330 or winning the batting title, although I hope he
does. But it's not exactly all that likely that some journeyman
like Louis Montanez would hit any better than Barney, even if he
could play 1B.
Obviously, no one has suggested Barney will end up hitting .330
- that's just a straw man.
But as craig says, it's not like putting Montanez at 1B and
Baker at 2b, instead of having Baker (who has show pretty good
power against lefties I seem to recall) at 1B and Barney at 2B
would be an improvement. It would almost certainly weaken the
defense on the right side though.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: craig
Date: April 23, 2011, 2:56 pm
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I agree with your point, Tom. If you're going to replace Barney
with somebody else at 1B versus LHP, you'll weaken your 2B
defense with Baker, and it may be that if it's some
inexperienced 1B (such as somebody like Louis Montanez would
be), you'll possibly weaken 1B relative to having Baker there.
Those "weakenings" might be modest, so if you had a 1B you liked
as a hitter with some punch and some OBP potential, that might
be worth it. Perhaps that could be true with either Montanez or
Marques Smith. But it's certainly also possible that they
wouldn't add anything offensively, and might hit worse than
Barney does, while weakening two positions defensively.
I do think that Hendry might have been wise to sign a RH
non-roster AAAA 1B for Iowa. It shouldn't be totally shocking
that an aging injury-prone lefty who hit sub-.200 last year
might struggle versus LHP. And it was anticipated from the
start that Baker would play 2B versus LHP, even had DeWitt won
the LH platoon job.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: craig
Date: April 23, 2011, 3:42 pm
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Hicks getting shut out 1-0 in the 4th. But he's 7K/1BB through
4, allowed a HR in the first.
Game one: 6walks/0K
Game two: 0 walks/4 K
Today: 1 walk/7 K (thus far)
Would be fun if he's getting somethng figured out and will turn
out to be interesting for us.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Chris27
Date: April 23, 2011, 5:02 pm
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Peoria DH:
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Szczur: 1-4 , (6 for last 32)
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: craig
Date: April 23, 2011, 5:09 pm
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Szczur's hit was a bunt in the last inning, and he scored the
winning run.
Alcantara got 3 singles in the DH, and has his average up to
.289. He'll be 19 all year, and by some accounts has some
flashy SS tools (quick, range, big arm). His early 9K/3BB/45AB
split are unimpressive but not red-flag bad either.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Chris27
Date: April 23, 2011, 7:52 pm
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Lake: 4-5, 2B, HR, 3 RBI, 2 SB , (10 for last 20; still 0 walks)
Struck: 5-1/3 -4-2-2-2-7
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Vitters: 1-4, HR, 2 RBI
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