Because Marmol is better.Originally Posted by Jeffy25
He gave up a homer, a double, and a walk tonight.
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Because Marmol is better.
He gave up a homer, a double, and a walk tonight.
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no, i was agreeing with thebest, why not try marmol
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Exactly HGM. and jeff would u spell Uecker right and not ucker.
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I don't know why they don't just let them try it. give marmol a shot.....i like stuff that is ucker, or yucker....uecker....eh
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Marmol takes Gregg out to the woodshed and whips him like a rented mule. On a championship caliber team (which I assume the Cubs want to be, seeing as it's been a little while) he's a middle reliever, perhaps even a long reliever. What he's doing as a closer I have no idea, other than the fact that he closed for the Marlins the last 2 years, which of course makes him an experienced closer, while Marmol has never been a closer, which of course makes him an inexperienced closer. There's only one way to solve this: make Marmol the freakin' closer and what do you know in a year or two he's an experienced closer.I just don't get why the best pitcher isn't getting used properly, but hey what do I know? I'm just a friggin' baseball sim player.
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I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE ! ! ! ! DAMMIT ! ! !I am starting to wonder about Kevin Gregg even more.Lou, please for the love of god put Marmol as the closer. That is all I ask.
And the opinion expressed here is in no way influenced by the fact that Marmol is on my fantasy team and Gregg is not.
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Agree totally. Gregg may have been a closer the past couple of years but he blew quite a few saves. Think he blew 9 last year. I remember him with the Angels being a good set-up man or middle relief guy and he would be better suited for that now as well. He walks way to many for my liking. Marmol has lights out stuff as he led all relievers with 114 K's last year and has looked excellent so far early on. As I said earlier he needs to be the closer sooner rather than later.Marmol takes Gregg out to the woodshed and whips him like a rented mule. On a championship caliber team (which I assume the Cubs want to be, seeing as it's been a little while) he's a middle reliever, perhaps even a long reliever. What he's doing as a closer I have no idea, other than the fact that he closed for the Marlins the last 2 years, which of course makes him an experienced closer, while Marmol has never been a closer, which of course makes him an inexperienced closer. There's only one way to solve this: make Marmol the freakin' closer and what do you know in a year or two he's an experienced closer.
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I love Lou Pinella, if he was the Cards manager, I would be plenty happy too....I would take LaRussa over him though...that's aside from my point that I will make.Marmol takes Gregg out to the woodshed and whips him like a rented mule. On a championship caliber team (which I assume the Cubs want to be, seeing as it's been a little while) he's a middle reliever, perhaps even a long reliever. What he's doing as a closer I have no idea, other than the fact that he closed for the Marlins the last 2 years, which of course makes him an experienced closer, while Marmol has never been a closer, which of course makes him an inexperienced closer. There's only one way to solve this: make Marmol the freakin' closer and what do you know in a year or two he's an experienced closer.
I don't understand, still, why Soriano leads off. He strikes out a lot, he doesn't have a high obp....sure he leads off the game with a homer sometimes, but it doesn't make sense to have a power hitter who strikes out leading your team off. he is a number 3-5 hitter. maybe a number 2....and it's not like the Cubs don't have other players that could leadoff..Theriot, Miles, even Bradley, Fontenot could all do it as well. Soriano should be bringing guys in, not trying to get on, which he doesn't seem to even try to do. he hits doubles and homers and strikes out...his obp last year, .344 and is a lifetime .328 obp guy....those are terrible numbers for a leadoff guy, and he no longer really steals bases.19 each of the last two seasons. I don't get that, and I don't see why they don't even just let Marmol try out as closer, he pitched great last year, he is more of a dominant pitcher then Gregg as well. I don't get some of the things Lou does. Like batting 5 righties in a row etc etc etc.
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Soriano bats lead off because he doesn't like batting elsewhere. Simple as that.
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Uhh he aint batting five righties in a row so far this year at all. Soriano is not comfortable anywhere else other than the leadoff spot. Plus, with him last year they were thirty games over .500. Without, they were a .500 team. You take the good with the bad with Soriano.
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That's more due to the fact that Soriano is much better than any of his replacements, and nothing to do with him leading off.
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I think actually, you would get more value out of Marmol if you used him for 2-3 innings versus the closer even with the higher leverage situation. I could be wrong though.Marmol takes Gregg out to the woodshed and whips him like a rented mule. On a championship caliber team (which I assume the Cubs want to be, seeing as it's been a little while) he's a middle reliever, perhaps even a long reliever. What he's doing as a closer I have no idea, other than the fact that he closed for the Marlins the last 2 years, which of course makes him an experienced closer, while Marmol has never been a closer, which of course makes him an inexperienced closer. There's only one way to solve this: make Marmol the freakin' closer and what do you know in a year or two he's an experienced closer.
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no team wins when you have a player that is being given treatment like that. It's the managers decision, not the players, he needs to learn to adjust to work with his team.
The question should be; what can I do for my team? not, what can my team do for me?
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I know. I just felt adding something in there. It shows how important he was to the team though.
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