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Jake Peavy? Never Heard Of Him: Cubs vs. Padres, Friday 5/22, 9:05 CT

This guy will be staying in this uniform for a while.

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This guy will be staying in this uniform for a while.

Got your attention, right? Of course I've heard of Jake Peavy; I haven't done a site search but he may be the single non-Cub player with the most words written about him at BCB since the rumors of him being dealt to the Cubs first surfaced last fall.

Peavy is a fine pitcher. He has won a Cy Young Award. I'm not surprised he turned down the deal to the White Sox -- first, he apparently likes to hit (.178 lifetime BA, 2 homers), and second, the Cell is a launching pad which would likely make him a worse pitcher than he is now. His numbers this year are pedestrian, although he is third in the NL in strikeouts with 69 -- oddly enough, right behind Javier Vazquez, who is having a better year than Peavy, having switched back to the National League where his numbers were always better than in his AL days. Park effects don't just affect hitters, obviously. Peavy's career road ERA is a full run higher (3.82) than his ERA at Petco (2.81), and he has allowed a lot more HR on the road (84) than at home (51) in 100 fewer innings, not a small sample size.

Thus, and wrenching this back to a Cub viewpoint, I would not ship four top young players (which is what the White Sox were going to do) for Peavy, who has a heavily backloaded contract that would cost the Cubs (approximately) $63 million, including, from what I understand, the automatic exercising of the $22 million last-year option on that deal.

Peavy would be an expensive luxury for the Cubs. What this team needs now is more offense, which I hope they will begin exhibiting tonight against Mr. Peavy himself.

See this link for further discussion of the roster move sending Rich Harden to the DL retroactive to May 18. Randy Wells will take his spot in the rotation (for now) and start tomorrow night.

Rob Neyer quotes Bruce Miles and joins the Jake Fox bandwagon.

Oh, and in case you hadn't noticed: the Cubs and Padres will be playing the only NL games on the schedule this weekend; everyone else is dipping their toes into the interleague pool. I'm not usually that fond of Bleacher Report, but today they have a good roundtable discussion on interleague play featuring some well-known bloggers including David Pinto of Baseball Musings.

Today's Starting Pitchers
Carlos Zambrano
Carlos Zambrano
Cubs
vs. Jake Peavy
Jake Peavy
Padres
3-1 W-L 3-5
4.50 ERA 3.82
33 SO 69
14 BB 19
4 HR 7
vs. SD -- vs. Cubs

Jake Peavy faced the Cubs at Wrigley Field 10 days ago on May 12; he pitched well enough, but allowed a two-run homer to Milton Bradley, which turned out to be the difference in the game. Alfonso Soriano is 6-for-13 lifetime (two homers) vs. Peavy. As he has for most of his career, Peavy has a much lower ERA at Petco (3.47) than on the road (4.32) in 2009.

Z was on the DL when the Padres were in town, so he has not faced them since 2008, when he beat them twice, once at home and on June 2 at Petco. He handles most of the current Padres well; not one of their active roster has ever homered off him. Even Brian Giles, longtime Cub-killer, is only 2-for-16 against Z.

WGN is carrying tonight's game, so once again, it's available outside the Chicago area. For today's other games see the MLB.com Mediacenter.

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Baseball-reference.com game preview

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Overflow comment threads will post today at 10 pm, 11 pm and 11:45 pm CDT.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

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Off to PETCO now!

Lets get a win tonight!

"I always tell the truth -- Even when I lie"

by calicubfan on May 22, 2009 7:08 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Going to dinner at ZED451

Hopefully will be back for about the second inning. Have fun everyone, I’ll talk to you later tonight.
Go Cubs.

One day I hope to come up with something worthy of this space.

by chilango2 on May 22, 2009 7:11 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Al

not a fan of bleacher report ? i write for bleacher report :-/

Someday we'll go all the way.

by Cubbinstrongsince86 on May 22, 2009 7:45 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Someone from Bleacher Report...

… copied and pasted entire posts I had written here, and posted them there under his name.

I think you can see how I might have a problem with that.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al on May 23, 2009 4:21 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

In and out tonite...

LET’S GET SOME RUNS!

(Runs = more than one!)

by znohitter on May 22, 2009 8:03 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

LOU'S LINE UP....

Can we expect something differant ???

by cubs north on May 22, 2009 8:26 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

God I hope so.

Anyone got lineups yet??

by kanderber on May 22, 2009 8:29 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

you got it!

Sori
Riot
Fuky
Lee
Hoff (RF)
Scales
Hill
Miles (2B)
Z

by cubsnlinux on May 22, 2009 8:31 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

No Bradley?

Hendry signed the wrong outfielder in the off-season. Should have signed Ibanez, who hit his 16th HR tonight. Could use someone in the lineup with that type of power

by PhillyCub on May 22, 2009 8:48 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Lou said

he was going to find way to get Hoff in the lineup and he did.

by sue369 on May 22, 2009 8:55 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Now if he could just find a way

to get Miles out of it.

"I'll never forget how I felt last October." ~Kosuke Fukudome

by Goodie1969 on May 22, 2009 8:56 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

It's Friday night, it's Memorial Day weekend

the sun’s shining (20 hours a day) and the Cubs are on the air….

ah… summer

Light ’em up, boys!

by Emelie on May 22, 2009 9:01 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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