Sing blasts two homers in Cubs’ 15-8 sinking of Mariners

A twenty-one hit attack led the Cubs past the Mariners in Peoria yesterday.  “Joliet” Brandon Sing smacked two homers, Jacque Jones collected three hits and Aramis Ramirez did as well, including his first home run of the spring.  Todd Wellemeyer was tagged for five runs over two innings, but the rest of the staff pitched fairly well.

Caleb Peiffer brought up Sing over at BP the other day.  He suggested that he might be an interesting in-house option to platoon with Jones in RF, especially as his career at 1B with the Cubs looks about as encouraging as David Caruso’s cinema escapades circa 1998.  Sing has some experience in RF, but his defensive reputation isn’t too hot (at least at 1B) and, as he hasn’t looked at Triple-A pitching yet, he’ll start the year in Iowa.  However, his hitting skills are the type in short supply in the Cubs’ organization (276/404/538, 91 walks for the Diamond Jaax last year), and if he has success in Des Moines he could instantly become a potent bat off the bench mid-season.  New hire Michael Restovich is another option as a righty in RF, but this discussion is most likely moot, as Jones will unfortunately get every opportunity to disprove the mountains of historical evidence demonstrating is ineptness against south-paws.