Lou has likely settled on his pitching staff (I fear)

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As long as Silva keeps this up it will most likely be Gorz and Silva as the 4th and 5th starters with Marshall in the pen as the long man. He also said the team has been very impressed with John Gaub (but I don’t see the team having 3 left handers in the pen)

Is that nobody has called you on your 10 man pitching staff. You must really want Millar and Tracy to make the regular season roster, dont’cha?

Sivla can be at least decent mid 4 ERA and pick up7-10 wins I would take it as a 5. Sure this is wishful thinking, but he did throw decent 2 years back, so who knows. I am just taking a different approach than the poster.

given who we went in to ST with. If the O produces then you will see a new arm on down the road. As for Silva…I think the NL will serve him well.

The following rotation (once TRL returns):
Z, Dempster, Wells, Lilly, and Silva/Marshall/Gorzelanny.

Pretty much, all we need to do is wait until Lilly comes back, and I think pitching will be solid. If I personally had to pick a fifth starter, I would choose Marshall.

I think this looks like an 85-win team, but that is just my prediction.

seem to rear it’s ugly head when these types of discussions come up? He’s been used as a long man and as a short reliever because we needed him there. I haven’t seen any lack of stamina by Marshall. That claim was floated a couple of years ago, but why is it coming up now? If anyone can cite a stamina difference between Marshall and any other pitchers on this staff, I’d like to hear it.

have reason to be concerned when looking at the Cub rotation.

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I’m real excited about this year’s Cubs team. I think they have a good blend of young guys and veterans, but most importantly, they don’t have any major distractions this year or bad chemistry. Marlon Byrd is having a very positive influence on everyone, Z, Wells, and Demp are looking great, D-Lee and Aramis are getting their injuries out of the way early (grin, I hope) and honestly, I think that Silva is going to be fine. I’ll gladly take a 12-10 year from Silva in ’10, and I think he can do it.

Plus…one more thing…it’s almost time for Cubs baseball, one of the greatest (if not the greatest) thing in the world for us Chicago Cubs fans. I will always love the team, the city, Wrigley, the players, so honestly, I don’t care what the Cubs are picked to be this year. They are my team, and I can’t wait ‘til April 5th when they open things up in Atlanta, and I REALLY can’t wait till I see them in Cincinnati on April 9th. Here’s to 2010, folks! It’s another season of Chicago Cubs baseball!

current crop of pitchers in camp right now? I would be curious to see how you would compose a staff based on the available choices the Cubs have now.

Yeah, that’s right. The Rotation is etched in stone for the whole year. We are on Rotation lock-down beginning on March 16. NO CHANGES!

Last time I looked playing the regular season games was a requirement.

What we see now is not necessarily what we will see over the course of 81 at Wrigley and 81 around the nation.

And yet…I guarantee that BLou will find things to complain about. If we did get a World Series title this year he’d kvetch because it maybe took six games instead of a sweep, and offer his own “deep, serious” insight on how he – and only he – would have made better managerial choices.

You know it’s true.

Anyone here have a good picture of Blou (BlueMike, etc) from the past years of reading his Napoleonic posts?

I know I have one and I gotta say, every time I read one (or more) of his uninformed, ignorant posts, I just picture the “angry smurf”, banging his keyboard and yelling for more meatloaf from his mom.

Works for me…usually.

I feel like puttin’ some money down.

the idea of throwing Silva to the curb immediately. You are stuck paying him. No one will take that contract. You either eat the money, or pay him and let him pitch. What is the harm if he comes North, has 3-4 decent starts, starts to suck, then you get rid of him. Why would you just toss him away and get nothing, nothing in return. It is just dumb logic.

If he didn’t get 200+ replies per post he probably wouldn’t post as much.