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1. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: June 12, 2012 at 02:50 PM (#4154833)young hitter like castro is hitting his career average. no step back. that's good
lahair has hit and been a good surprise. that's good
old timers like soriano and dejesus are hitting. that's good
barney is barney
is the guy being fired because guys who stink still stink?
looks like it
Hasn't Jamarillo always encouraged an aggressive approach? And might that be out of line with what the new front office wants to promote in developing their young players? Just speculating.
that was so yesterday. you need to keep youngster.
get the lead out already
//yanking your chain
Has he? Castro has never really walked and just spot-perusing, I don't see any regression...
Personally, I think this is a mistake -- Stewart has sucked, but he's been incredibly unlucky and might just suck anyway. Beyond that, everyone seems to be performing at least as well as you might hope -- and frankly, there are a few guys (Campana, Mather, LaHair, Cleve - albeit in small sample, about whom you might say are overperforming).
I'm with Harv - this smells of serious scapegoating to me...
OTOH -
Jaramillo WAS the previous regime sole holdover... It's entirely possible that neither Sveum nor Theo really wanted him, but felt that eating the entirety of a large coach contract was too much to swallow. As my boss continually reminds/confuses me -- not all company money comes from one bucket and you have to build a case to move money from one bucket to another buckets... I told him that it seems that maybe we shouldn't be wasting so much money on buckets, but what do I know.
(2) Wasn't he supposed to be a genius of some variety?
I don't really see how Jaramillo can be blamed for much. Stewart has always had trouble hitting for average and the only real underperformer is Soto. Under Jaramillo's watch Barney has done quite well, DeJesus has regained his form, LaHair has been good, and Castro has bloomed (though it's all batting average). I guess Soriano has been disappointing overall. It's tough to say Jaramillo has been good or bad so I'm inclined to chalk it up to organizational preferences and looking toward the future.
hahahahahahahahahahah
And along the lines of #8, presumably the Cubs will soon be calling up Rizzo and, at least in Sept, Jackson and maybe the Cubs think Rowson is the better guy to work with them (or young players in general).
So is Soriano... Let's see who gets lucky first.
Wow, that's like early Cano.
Neither did Jim Hendry.
The Ballpark in Arlington will do that for a guy.
Isn't that why pretty much every hitting coach ever has been fired?
I'm not saying it is, or that even he has such a rep, just that we actually don't know why he was fired and that could be one explanation.
Jaramillo was on double secret probation . Told weeks ago approach of hitters had to change.
I mean, I have no idea if he was good, bad, or indifferent, but ultimately I question how much effect a hitting coach can have on a crappy veteran.
If it was, Jaramillo should've been given a raise. .312/.376/.766 over the last 21 games.
Hindsight tells us Hernandez and Boone were toast in 2005, but Martinez/Sizemore/Blake was a pretty huge chunk of the offense. They all started hitting more or less immediately when Murray left.
They heard he was a wizard, and they were very disappointed when he couldn't change Soriano into a bouquet of flowers or a flock of doves.
Wow, that's like early Cano.
There's a much easier comparison - Cubs shortstop, broke in at a young age, won't take a walk...
From 1986 (his first full season) to 1991 (after which he missed a bunch of time), Shawon Dunston drew 80 non-intentional IBBs (115 total) in about 3100 PAs, for a rate of ~ 1 BB every 39 PAs. Castro is slightly worse this year (about 1 in 44), but nowhere near Dunston's worst season. In 1988, Shawon drew 8 unintentional BBs in 591 PAs, for a rate of ~ 1 every 74 PAs.
And oh yes, he made the All-Star team that season.
Great move, IMO
BTW, where did the name 'salviaman' ever come from? This is my first post since the registration change. My name has alway appeared as "Duffy Duff" until now...
See people, that's all it will take and we'll even throw in $20 M or so.
Soriano finally went to a lighter bat
And we'll even pay freight on the bats.
There's a much easier comparison - Cubs shortstop, broke in at a young age, won't take a walk...
Leave Ivan DeJesus Sr. out of this!
And Ronny Cedeno and ... OK, Kessinger would kinda take a walk, he just couldn't hit.
I am sure that if you searched all of baseball history for the most-similar case to Starlin Castro, it would have to be GT.
But ZiPS promised me Yount, Jeter or Brett. I expect Dan to come through on that one.
I'm not sure whether to agree or to be glad that it wasn't Randy Wells instead.
This game's over, too. The inning was finished when Castro couldn't do anything.
And I know the Cubs suck, but I live in Michigan, so I just really, REALLY want them to win at least two of these games.
As I type that, Carlos Marmol appears.
Maybe they'll bench him to show the rest of the team they won't stand for it.
Apparently Soriano thought they did. Scherzer faked to third, and Soriano jumped towards second. He didn't even get back to first on his slide, he was so far from the base. It was the most pathetic thing I've seen from the Cubs all year, and that's saying something.
I think I'm gonna go hide for the top of the inning.
Anyway, Stewart to the DL, Valbuena headed back up. Valbuena's not on the 40-man, though, so another move is coming. Maybe Lendy Castillo's injury is, um, "worse than thought" and he goes to the 60-day DL?
Lalli can't be far behind Hill once the Soler contract gets finalized.
that's not Mike Mordecai, is it? He's gotta be like 50 by now.
Just for fun? Was he, like, really bored?
I believe he and some friends were reenacting Tarantino's segment from Four Rooms.
Besides which, no one thinks that Valbuena's "the answer" anyway. He's just an injury patch.
Yeah, he's still just 22 -- but it's his 6th year in the system and it's time to figure out whether he's worthy of a spot or not.
Technically, I think he's actually been hot(ter) of late, too -- he's up to 268/317/450 -- no great shakes, but good for a 104 OPS+ and a ton better than he was looking a month ago.
Might as well give him two weeks to sink or swim... maybe something clicks, but if it doesn't, what are you really hurting? Whether you think he's been jacked around too much in the minors or not, I just think this is pretty much the year of "either he's got a future, or hit the bricks".
According to BRef, he started this season with only 3 years of MiLB service time. Plus, he's on the 40-man.
But anyway since he is on the 40 man roster after this year he'll only have 2 more option yeas left.
Maybe 2016, the 4th option year still confuses me.
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