Will Carroll has posted the Cubs' Team Health Report (sub. req.) at Baseball Prospectus. He includes an interesting remark about the turnover rate of the trainer's job, and pins their low rating on Mark O'Neal.
That lack of stability is one of the reasons that the Cubs used to explain their poor ratings in the past, but the Three-Year Rank above belongs entirely to O'Neal and his staff.
The Cubs score just a couple Green and a handful of Red, mostly Yellow. Check it out.
While I'm the subject, Felix is off for, well, you've probably heard by now, but our center fielder is at risk of being a uniballer. He'll be fine, out for a few days. If you don't know, "uniballer" is Robin Williams' nickname for Lance Armstrong. I call him "One Step" because that was always his relation to the doping authorities.
But I digress. In other health news, Mark DeRosa returned to the line-up after a "minor" heart procedure. Rich Hill got roughed up and the Cubs got beat by the Brewers.
[Hill] gave up a pair of hits in the first inning and then came back in the second and gave up four more hits and four runs
Big Z faces the A's tomorrow, first Spring game with a Zambrano/Soto battery.
Keeping up where I had fallen behind, here's an update on some of the stats on the "other" battles for roster positions. A newly shortened list.
Second Lefty
Pitcher INN SO BB ER HR
Campusano 3.0 1 1 3 0
Cotts 3.2 1 4 5 0
Pignatiello 4.1 1 0 0 0
If Lou can live with five righties in the pen, Piggy should stick.
Another Righty
Pitcher INN SO BB ER HR
Ascanio 5.0 1 2 4 1
Hart 4.2 3 0 2 0
Lahey 5.0 2 3 1 0
Mateo 5.0 0 3 1 0
I'll shave this down to Hart and Lahey next time.
Utility
Batter AB H BB SO SB XBH
Cedeno 21 4 1 6 1 1
Cintron 29 10 1 3 0 4
Fontenot 26 8 4 4 0 3
Patterson 21 6 2 4 0 2
4 comments:
Too bad Cedeno isn't playing well this spring. If he isn't traded, the Cubs may just DFA him.
There's no way he'd clear waivers
No, he wouldn't, but if the Cubs can't trade him, I'd be surprised to see him on the roster with the spring he's had. there's still time to turn it around and I hope he does. He's the one guy who can get Dance Fever out of the everyday lineup.
There are other players who could be Fever, but none of them are actually signed to this organization. Minor detail.
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