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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Chris27
Date: April 23, 2011, 10:09 pm
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Iowa:
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: craig
Date: April 23, 2011, 11:14 pm
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Nice to see struck with a really good outing. He had a
7K/0BB/2hit game entering the 6th, obviously his longest outing.
And then the reliever allowed one of his runners in.
Would be fun if Hicks had improved his control and his breaking
ball so that he could merit interest. We'll see.
Micah Gibbs is hitting over .300 with excellent K/BB. He
appears to have sub-Barney power. Given how old he is, that he
didn't hit in Boise, didn't make daytona, and started off slow
the first few games, I kind of lost track of him. Plus, being a
catcher who's down in the order, and being a catcher who only
starts half the games, he's easy to forget.
He's got some funny stuff for the moment. How often does a guy
have an OBP that's 100 points higher than his slugging? His OBP
is .475, he's slugging .375, he's hitting .344. (One double
thus far.) As a big-time LSU/SEC guy who's almost 24, you'd
think he should have learned to become most of what he can be.
But there can be some big-league opportunity for a
switch-hitting good-chemist catcher, if his OBP can be good
enough, even if he has no power.
Odd that a guy who weighs so much should be so powerless,
though.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: JR
Date: April 24, 2011, 8:10 am
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I don't want to go all Scotti and respond line by line to some
of the Barney/Montanez discussion, but a few random thoughts I
had as I was reading everyone's posts on the subject.
1. I wasn't just talking about Montanez, and I'm really not
just talking about Marquez Smith either. When you have a guy
like Jeff Baker who can play an adequate 2B and hit like Chase
Utley against LHP, it's a waste to keep a low .700 OPS hitter in
the lineup when there are plenty of right handed first basemen
out there who can hammer lefties. You're really losing a lot of
offensive potential against lefties when you don't take
advantage of Baker's ability to play second base adequately, and
I don't think Barney's glove makes up for that.
Trying to see if Montanez or Smith could handle first is at
least a way to find out if you can find a power hitting right
handed first baseman internally. If it doesn't work, I think
Hendry should be at least on the lookout for one.
2. Do I actually believe someone like Montanez could be a
better hitter against LHP than Barney? I don't have a lot of
evidence to back it up, but yeah I do. Montanez had a .986 OPS
in his last full minor league season, and he has a 1.157 OPS
this year. Call it a gut feeling, but Montanez probably has
figured things out as a minor league hitter. And even with all
of the lousy early minor league seasons Montanez had, his career
.784 minor league OPS is better than Barney's career .708 minor
league OPS.
And I think it's also quite likely Marquez Smith would be
better. He's always been a more productive hitter than Barney
in the minors (.839 OPS to .708).
3. I don't think we'd be losing nearly as much defense as you'd
think. After all, Baker isn't exactly a longtime first baseman
himself.
All the metrics indicate Baker is at least an adequate defensive
second baseman. We do lose something defensively with him at
second, but his .920 OPS vs. LHP more than makes up for it.
And I doubt the difference between an relatively inexperienced
Baker at 1B and someone like Montanez with a month of Iowa 1B or
a guy moving over from third base like Marquez Smith is a very
big defensive difference.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: craig
Date: April 24, 2011, 8:32 am
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You may well be right, JR.
I think the point holds that whether it's Smith or MOntanez or
somebody else, that there should be SOMEBODY with more hitting
potential available than a career .708.
I suspect that there were some 25-30-year-old AAAA RH 1B/LF
types who were rolling around this winter who could field 1B as
well as Baker, with more power/OPS potential than .708.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: JR
Date: April 24, 2011, 9:13 am
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One other thing, I'm not even saying play them at first and call
them up from Iowa in a week. Give them some time there so maybe
a month or two from now, it's an option you can consider if you
do want to add a right handed 1B.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Playtwo
Date: April 24, 2011, 9:49 am
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I think it's fine to make whatever preparations they can in case
Barney becomes unacceptable. In the meantime, he's been one of
the few bright spots for the Cubs and should continue to play
regularly.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: guest61
Date: April 24, 2011, 2:39 pm
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I really do think it's pretty cool to see Sam Fuld doing what
he's doing.
I never believed in him and even though he was a tremendous CFer
he couldnt hit much at all.
Most of the people at Smokies Park thought he was great though.
As far as Brett Jackson goes I know I liked the pick.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Chris27
Date: April 24, 2011, 2:54 pm
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Kurcz: 7-5-1-1-3-9
Ha: 1-4, HR, 2 RBI, assist; still walkless for the season
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Peoria idle.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Jes Beard
Date: April 24, 2011, 4:00 pm
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--- Quote from: Deeg link ---
>
> In addition to his .419 BA, Jackson already has 12 BB. He
looks like the real deal. At some point fairly soon, you start
to think about moving somebody and giving him a chance to get
his feet wet this season since the Cubs won't be contending.
>
--- End Quote ---
Yea.... that was what I was saying in December.
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Re: On the Farm
DIR By: Chris27
Date: April 24, 2011, 4:38 pm
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Gaub: 1 IP, 3 K , (18 K in 9 1/3 IP)
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