Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Lou's drinking the Marmolade

ESPN Chicago is reporting that Lou has named Carlos Marmol the Cubs new closer. Boo ya. Now I did say just a couple of weeks ago that Kevin Gregg's HR/FB was flukily high--looks like it was me who was high after watching 6' 6" 285 lb rookie Kyle Blanks (rumored to be half man, half gorilla) deposit a Kevin Gregg fastball deep into the seats at spacious Petco Park for the game winner last night.

Take this job and run with it Marmol. Run with it like an angry Kyle Blanks is chasing after you with blood in his eyes and a caveman's club waving above his head. The truth is, Marmol doesn't exactly deserve this role. Angel Guzman has been the most consistently reliable reliever in the Cubs bullpen this year and it's not close. Marmol, however, looks like a closer. The 10.7 strikeouts per nine innings doesn't hurt either.

This is the role Marmol has been groomed for, hopefully he begins to pitch as though he deserves it.

6 comments:

  1. highly unlikely. i bet he chokes. down with the cubbies.

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  2. Guzman should have the role. Marmol's gonna blow it.

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  3. guzman has the heat. lou just likes to suck on his marmolade.

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  4. well mike, there's a good reason for that, marmolade is one tasty nectar to be sucking on, and he's been a strikeout machine lately with 19 K's in his last 12 innings. Now he's walked 9 in those 12 innings which is a miserable rate--but tolerable with the abundance of strikeouts.

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  5. Nate, I suggest you adopt a better attitude.

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  6. look at the little stat boy......

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