June 2, 200719 yr Oh not to mention the fact Barrett followed Zambrano into the dugout and statred the 2nd scuffle.
June 2, 200719 yr Barrett is a joke as a catcher. If you've watched as many Cubs games as I have, you would understand why Z wanted to knock him. Most Cubs fans do.
June 2, 200719 yr I'll take Barrett as our catcher. I don't know much about his defense, and frankly when you can hit like he can from the position, I don't care. Offer them a minor league arm and see if we can get him.
June 2, 200719 yr I'll take Barrett as our catcher. I don't know much about his defense, and frankly when you can hit like he can from the position, I don't care. Offer them a minor league arm and see if we can get him. I'm afraid Olsen would punch him.
June 2, 200719 yr I'll take Barrett as our catcher. I don't know much about his defense, and frankly when you can hit like he can from the position, I don't care. Offer them a minor league arm and see if we can get him. The reality is, Barrett should not be at catcher. He is a good hitter, but he cannot truly come close to playing his position. Catcher involves calling a game, setting up pitches, keeping the pitcher cool, and throwing out runners. Barrett cannot do any of these things. The fact of the matter is that Barrett is so horrible at defense, he accounts for as many runs defensively as he provides offensively. Not to mention that he is a stupid baserunner and overall, just a stupid player. Marlin fans think Olivo is poor at catcher, but he is the Ozzie Smith of catching compared to Michael Barrett. Simply put, a good team doesn't have Michael Barrett at catcher.
June 2, 200719 yr Barrett is by far the worst defensive catcher in the game. He makes Victor Martinez look like Mike Matheney.
June 2, 200719 yr I kind of feel like catcher's defense is a bit overrated, which is why I've always been a fan of Olivo when he's hitting (when he isn't he's of very little worth). A bad defensive catcher doesn't hurt your team nearly as much as a great defensive catcher helps, imo.
June 2, 200719 yr I'll take Barrett as our catcher. I don't know much about his defense, and frankly when you can hit like he can from the position, I don't care. Offer them a minor league arm and see if we can get him. He will be a FA at the end of the season, and will get a big contract after this year thanks to his bat. Soto has been doing good in AAA so far this year, 13/4/26, .319/.383/.504 line. So the Cubs keeping on to him is deffinatly questionable. The problems come up with 1) Cubs are still in contention, meaning moves are unlikely unless it's for major leage quality talent, 2) His contract, he's making 4.5m. with 1/3rd of the season gone, that leaves 3,399,999.75 left to be paid. So the Cubs would have to eat 2m+, 3) If he's on the block, other teams will want him aswell, creating a bidding war. They probably want Soto to finish the year in AAA to give him another full year there before playing in the majors everyday, so they'll probably want a major league ready catcher in return since Blanco isn't an everyday catcher. If we send them Olivo, that takes care of the money issue (He's making 2m). So if we send them Olivo + a pitcher, it could work. But it'd have to be a major league ready pitcher. And even then, the Cubs really don't need a pitcher. Their rotation has been good outside of Zambrano aslong as Marshall keeps pitching like he has in his first two starts since getting called up, and they're bullpen is fine once Lou realizes he shouldn't be sending out Eyre (3.97 ERA 1.31 WHIP if you take out Eyre's numbers). So, I don't see them moving him unless the situation in the clubhouse becomes a Benitez-type "This guy has to be moved no matter what" situation, and even then we'd be in a bidding war with other teams.
June 2, 200719 yr The opposite of professional. What is amateur? I'll take Steve Bartman trivia for $400 Alex.
June 2, 200719 yr I think the Cubs are on WGN this afternoon @ 1pm. I'll be watching it so I can find out what happened. That team is sooo messed up.
June 2, 200719 yr I think the Cubs are on WGN this afternoon @ 1pm. I'll be watching it so I can find out what happened. That team is sooo messed up. yesterday's game was on tbs, but they didn't really talk about the fight, seeing it was a braves telecast. sunday's game will be on both tbs and wgn.
June 2, 200719 yr I'll take Barrett as our catcher. I don't know much about his defense, and frankly when you can hit like he can from the position, I don't care. Offer them a minor league arm and see if we can get him. The problems come up with 1) Cubs are still in contention, meaning moves are unlikely unless it's for major leage quality talent, 2) His contract, he's making 4.5m. with 1/3rd of the season gone, that leaves 3,399,999.75 left to be paid. So the Cubs would have to eat 2m+, 3) If he's on the block, other teams will want him aswell, creating a bidding war. So, I don't see them moving him unless the situation in the clubhouse becomes a Benitez-type "This guy has to be moved no matter what" situation, and even then we'd be in a bidding war with other teams. I agree that it is to early. Hypothetically, lets fast foward to the all star break. The cubs are now 15 games under .500 (hopefully). The marlins are only 3 games behind the wild card. Barretts 4.5 mil salary is now 2 million. Then do we take a look at him?
June 2, 200719 yr Zambrano is one of the only Cubs players that actually seem to care about how they're playing and what's going on. The Cubs just don't seem to try hard enough....... the talent is obviously there and even though Zambrano hasn't pitched well so far, he plays the game with the passion that nearly everybody on that team needs to play with. Being a Cubs fan I just laugh at how stupid Barrett was to confront Zambrano. He deserved that ass beating.
June 2, 200719 yr yesterday's game was on tbs, but they didn't really talk about the fight, seeing it was a braves telecast. sunday's game will be on both tbs and wgn. The only thing I heard them mention during the game was something along the lines of, "The Cubs are getting beat up on the field, and apparently off the field as well. There may have been a bit of an incident in the Cubs dugout earlier." But that is all I heard them say about it. It was not until I was watching something else that I saw the incident, or knew what the Braves announcers were referring to.
June 2, 200719 yr "I was goin' to argue whether the runner was safe, out, didn't matter" "The umpire got it right"---Lou Piniella
June 2, 200719 yr You know, Zambrano needs to be suspended. He was way out of line. What? He pitched at his catcher in the dugout, that happens alot. Barrett has been horrible lately. Barrett got all pissy, and went at Zambrano and Z defended himself. I blame Barrett, for as awlays, being alittle bitch. He did it to Oswalt, AJ, and now Z. I don't know what video you were watching. Zambrano came to Barrett and Barrett reacted. Why would Barrett go after Zambrano first? On top of that, this idiot beats up his own team mate in the clubhouse and send him to the hospital?
June 2, 200719 yr You know, Zambrano needs to be suspended. He was way out of line. What? He pitched at his catcher in the dugout, that happens alot. Barrett has been horrible lately. Barrett got all pissy, and went at Zambrano and Z defended himself. I blame Barrett, for as awlays, being alittle bitch. He did it to Oswalt, AJ, and now Z. I don't know what video you were watching. Zambrano came to Barrett and Barrett reacted. Why would Barrett go after Zambrano first? On top of that, this idiot beats up his own team mate in the clubhouse and send him to the hospital? barrett went after z in the tunnel for the second brawl (which we didn't see). that's when barrett got his black eyes and cut open lip.
June 3, 200719 yr Wow, two black eyes and a split lip. Barrett got his ass kicked bad. He's no match against Big Z.
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