Game Recap: Pirates 4, Rockies 2
Key to the Game
Jorge De La Rosa settled in after a rough first inning and the Colorado Rockies dug out of a 2-0 hole with back-to-back home runs by Brad Hawpe and Clint Barmes in the fifth inning, but it didn’t matter as the offense failed to mount any sort of sustained threat and spoiled its few opportunities.
On defense, Troy Tulowitzki made a couple nice plays early in the game, but his return was marred by an error in the top of the sixth. After the Rockies had evened things up at 2-2 in the bottom of the fifth, Tulowitzki bobbled an easy grounder from Jose Tabata to start the next half inning. Tabata came around to score the go-ahead run later in the inning.
On offense, the Rockies produced three doubles — five of their six hits were extra base hits — to no effect. Miguel Olivo led off the seventh with a double but was stranded at third base. Ryan Spilborghs led off the eighth inning with a double but tried to stretch it into a triple despite being down two runs with Carlos Gonzalez and Troy Tulowitzki coming up behind him. The Rockies’ final chance came in the ninth when Hawpe doubled with two out but was left at second.
Other Highlights
– De La Rosa got off to a rough start giving up a double and two singles to start the game and in a 1-0 hole. He allowed a second run on a wild pitch in the first inning, but settled in after that. He allowed three runs — two earned — in seven innings and struck out eight. At one point, De La Rosa retired 11 straight batters with seven strikeouts.
– Hawpe, who made his third major league start at first base, broke a string of 13 hitless at-bats with his sixth homer of the season _ all with the bases empty. It was Hawpe’s first homer in 48 at-bats since June 20. Hawpe also doubled in the ninth, giving him his first multi-hit game since July 8 and his game with multiple extra-base hits since June 18.
–Barmes homered in the fifth to end a string of 18 hitless at-bats. It was Barmes’ eighth homer and his first in 61 at-bats since July 2. Barmes and Hawpe hit back-to-back homers, something the Rockies have done four times this year, all at Coors Field , but not since May 27 when Seth Smith, Carlos Gonzalez and Ryan Spilborghs hit three consecutive homers.
–Joe Beimel, who has been scored upon in a season-high three straight outings, gave up his second homer of the season to Neil Walker in the eighth. Beimel yielded his first homer to Chipper Jones of the Braves in his first appearance of the season April 16 at Atlanta. After that game, Beimel worked 29 1/3 innings in 44 games without allowing a homer before Tuesday.
–While going 2-10 since the All-Star break, the Rockies have scored 37 runs or an average of 3.1 per game and are hitting .208 (82-for-395) and .179 (15-for-84) with runners in scoring position. They were 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position against the Pirates.
–The Rockies have lost seven straight games for the first time since Sept. 6-13, 2008. The Pirates had lost six straight road games and 25 of their past 28 games on the road. Before Tuesday, their last road win was June 30 when they beat the Cubs 2-0 at Wrigley Field.
They have to win this series or else.
At this moment … I’m speechless …
DLR pitched fairly well, although being down a run 7 pitches into the game was not what we needed. Certainly put is behind the 8 ball early which we couldn’t done without. Nice to see Tulo back, but he’s got to field that ball in the 6th, especially right after we tied the game up. Spilly’s running gaffe was simply ridiculous… At least we ha some extra base hits tonight, but stranding Olivo and the Spilly running mistake really cost us…
Blame this one on the heat and humidity. Plus Ubaldo is overworked, even though he didn’t pitch tonite.
Not much to say after this one. We gave them two runs. We had no hits with runners in scoring position (again). Spillborghs trying for third was as bad a baserunning blunder as Stewart not running hard on Monday. Perhaps worse because I think he did the same thing over the weekend. Enthusiasm is one things, being stupid is another. You would think someone would have talked to him about his mistake over the weekend. Do the coaches and Tracy talk to them? Do they care? Amazing crowd for this game but I would guess that we’re not going to get many more of those if they keep playing like they did tonight. Perhaps they’ll be more Cubs fans in the stands than Rockies fans this weekend.
And why didn’t Tracy pinch hit for Fowler in the 7th? In the top of the 7th Frazier and Goodman were talking about how sometimes the most important inning isn’t the 9th and games can be won or lost in the 7th. They said that Jim Tracy knows that. Does he? They also mentioned that when Tracy managed the Pirates he lost 95 one run games. Maybe last year was an aberration and he’s not a good manager. He’s certainly not getting the players to play smart this year especially in the last two weeks.
At least when I wake up tomorrow I’ll still be in Colorado. Things could be worse.
Not a bad pitching night. I knew Beimel would give up a run – he seems to be in a rut right now. But 4 runs total allowed at home isn’t too bad.
Unfortunately the Rox were up against one of the best pitchers in the history of the game in Duke. The way we made him look tonight, I wish DOD could engineer a trade for him. Tomorrow another 5-time Cy Young winner in Ohlendorf.
Hawpe looked pretty good at 1B, although I only watched half the game. Barmes hasn’t lost any skill at 2B, as seen in the 6-4-3 DP in the 6th inning. I’m looking for positives here … and it ain’t easy. Uhh, lots of loud outs in the futile 7th, 8th, and 9th.
The good news is Arizona lost tonite.
Jim Tracy is a good guy, not a good manager. His laid back, everyone gets the green light attitude seems to be popular with players but it doesn’t win (last year was a post-Hurdle anomaly). The team hasn’t manufactured a run in a month. I don’t think I have ever seen a team score less when getting guys to third with less than 2 outs. And the baserunning errors are bad for little leaguers, let alone the pros. Unfortunately, with all of the injuries, Tracy probably is here for another year or two.
A big problem with the franchise is blind loyalty in guys who don’t get the job done. Todd, you haven’t done anything since the steroid era, how does 17 mill sound? Don Baylor, you have done absolutely nothing to stop extending slumps from nearly all our players, all while letting everyone swing for the fences–but we don’t want to ruin your shot of managing, so we’ll stick by you while you sink our ship. Get a hitting coach to help these young guys break out of slumps before their career is ruined (atkins and perhaps Hawpe). Good pitching hid a lot of bad baseball late last year and up until the allstar break–now we are seeing this teams true colors.
Tracy looks speechless too, resigned to fact of all managers, it’s ultimately up to the players to play the right way. No excuse for 7th inning lead off double and not scoring runner. At least they didn’t strike out there, but tired of purple glasses. Spilly’s baserunning blunder was just plain dumb. If he gets to third so what, still down two you can’t score two runs on one hit with no one on.
Seems they have lost common sense and are just overthinking this game. It’s a simple game, hit the ball, catch the ball and execute really well.. What the heck happened to this team, are they just an odd year team?
Good perspective Bill, bout best I can think of right now as well with these guys. Going to game tomorrow, was hard to get good seats, so hoping another good crowd. So much pent up energy by fans to cheer them on, I hope this team gives us a reason to.
Depressing, but sun will come up tomorrow in Colorado.
I can’t tell you how loud I groaned when Spilly went for 3rd base.
Why does Tracy always play for the big inning, the offense isn’t going right let’s tie the game with a bunt with runner on 3rd and 1 out and put a little pressure on the defense??? Wow his stock is going down, perhaps what has been said previously… he can’t manage close games. During the upcoming off day I would go back to spring training again and let the players know what is expected of them in the game, the fundamentals aren’t being executed time and time again. It appears to me the coaches don’t communicate to efficiently to the players prior or during the game either, who is running this club.
Why is it the average pitchers own the Rockies?? DOD a big shake up is really past due!!
Watching on TV, I could not figure out the strike zone. It moved up, down, and all around.
Maybe a pinch-hitter for Fowler in the seventh changes the game, maybe not. At some point a manager has to be able to trust that his players will come through when called upon, so I can’t really fault that. If you pinch-hit Giambi or Stewart there and he doesn’t come through, there could be another series of what-ifs in the ninth. Not much you can do if your players don’t come through or make stupid mistakes like Spilly’s baserunning mistake in the eighth.
I’ll still go back to what I posted yesterday, Fowler should go back down to get his head straightened out and Nelson should come up and platoon with Stewart. How long can Tracy continue continue to send Fowler out there before his confidence is totally shot. What is he, 3 for his last 41?
I was one on the 46k dumbasses there tonight that was convinced there was no way we could lose this game …wrong
Never… I mean never, be the first out a 3rd base.
Dexter’s resurgence upon getting called back was smoke and mirrors …he has no business being in the starting line up
We are on the cusp of being a train wreck and I am questioning my emotional investment in this team.
sorry for the rant
I think J.TRACY has had “his not mgr.fault 100 games”.Sometimes the manager has to see the shortcomings of his team and reinvent the way they have to play.Some upside may be Hawpe,who has looked really good at 1st,and maybe going into one of his notorious “HOT STREAKS”.But I have 2 logical managerial questions. One,the Post said Stewert was 4for 8 lifetime v. Duke,but did not start or play.Punishment for not running in Philly make make it reasonable,otherwise-stupid!Two why the hell not pinch hit for Dex in the 7th.FSN said he is hitting .153 w/RISP this season.Save Giambi for 9th is OK,but Herrera,and Stewert were both on the bench![and Iannetta for that matter].I thought a squeeze from Herrera[instead of Smith]gets one run-and maybe Herrera beats it out.Then PH Smith for Dex,even if then 2 outs one swing ties it and you still have Stewert/Giambi for 8th/9th.Bad bench management.I’d have rather seen anyone but Dex in that situation.They need to play more small ball because obviously they can’t play big ball!
I think it’s pretty apparent that if we want to score runs, Fowler needs to step up. Remember when we had our great 8-2 homestand, which seems like a year ago, he was hitting the hell out of the ball and we were scoring runs aplenty. He’s been slumping since then, and our run production has really tanked.
And Miketober is correct to point out that we’re facing superior pitching talent out here. We’ve got a five-time Cy Younger against us manana. It’s tough facing perennial all-star starters back to back. As you can see, we’ve struggled a lot against the upper-teir this year: Zack Duke, Brian Mohler, Joe Blanton, Brian Bannister, Felipe Paulino, Kyle Kendrick, Dontrelle Willis, Craig Stammen, to name a few. Nothing but top-shelf talent there.
Dex needs to go down to CS, bring up Miller if you want another outfielder, but I don’t know why you would need him.
Earlier in the year many of us (I thing Prog started it) talked of baseball IQ. Spilly was dumb. Tracy was equally dumb not pinch hitting for Dex.
Hawpe looked good at first. If that versatility keeps up his value goes up.
What this team needs know are not new players, but new heads. I kept asking myself throughout the game how can this talented team be so bad. Right now I think it is much more mental than anything else. But we are also seeing that maybe we are not as talented as we thought in April.
Seller, buyers, it doesn’t matter right now. They need to play smart and relax. Easier said than done.
I’m thinking they are still buyers at this point, but we’ll know more on Friday.
oh my……
Maybe DOD can trade Jim Tracy to SD for Bud Black before the deadline. He could throw in Don Baylor too … No that would sour the deal.
Has a manager ever been traded? Now that would be a shake up.
) Maybe it wasn’t Hurdle after all hmmm? Ok that’s a whole other discussion, but these players have to look at their own selves and start finding solutions and go with their strengths and not try to do what they aren’t. We all see the talent that each has, but all can recognize when they are trying to go outside of their own abilities. I would hope they would be self aware or others on the team can point this out. Oh wait, isn’t that what the manager and coaches should be doing? Maybe the players aren’t listening and have a propensity to just tune out managers and coaches when things go the least bit adverse? Might be time for some new blood in the clubhouse sooner than later if this dynamic doesn’t change.
Winning cures all, but losing shows true colors.
I was amazed at Jim Tracy last year. He seemed like a guru, a genius, the right man for the job.
Now I’m totally lost on him. I said this a million times when Hurdle was manager and we had big bats like Atkins, Holliday, Payton, etc and we were failing to score runs. Eventually if the players aren’t doing what they are paid for, the manager has to do something that HE is paid for, “MANAGE!”. Do you think with a man on third down by 1 run that Hawpe or Tulo or somebody is going to say, “hey Boss, how about I lay the much needed bunt down so we can tie this much needed ballgame?” HA! Players have egos. They aren’t going to admit that they are in a slump and shouldn’t be swinging away.
Just like Jim says in that FSN commercial, “if you want to be in that special place again, take the ego and move it over here.” Well Jim, why don’t you take your own advice and make the call for them.
Hawpe did look good at 1B, and he hit one out against a lefthanded pitcher. I’d basically write him in every day at 1B at this point, with the occasional Giambi start. No more Melvin Mora at 1B please.
Why isn’t this club scoring? Well, it just isn’t that good of an offensive club, particularly since Helton gave us nothing this year, and particularly while Tulo was out. Sorry, but that’s the problem here. Jim Tracy may have overmanaged a bit, but that’ understandable when you’re trying to squeeze production out of a lineup that seems incapable of consistent production.
They better win this week or else sell players and playoff chances are gone.
They better win this week or they will sell players and playoff chances are gone.
Agbayani, where are you getting Jim Tracy “overmanaged” he’s “undermanaged” all year. “Swing away” is an agressive batting style, but a passive management style, IMO.
Quoting Col. Kurtz “The horror…the horror”
If I were Tracy I’d have screamed bloody murder at Spilly right then and there, same for Dex when he did the same thing over the weekend. Tracy needs to get riled up!
Jeez, just when the Broncos are about to take over the Colorado sporting universe as training camp looms, the Rox find themselves fading fast. Most people’s attention will start waning fast. Too bad.
Karl,
In the late 50′s, Frank “Trader” Lane, the GM for cleveland traded his manager (Joe Gordon) to Detroit for theirs (Jimmy Dykes)so there is precedent.
I too get frustrated with not trying more smal ball to get thse guys out of their home run or bust mentality. Don’t see much reason to be optimistic for the rest of this season.
I would send down Fowler and call up Miller. The guy’s hitting well over .300 this year and has done so for several years now. Why not give him a chance? The lineup has three guys who are hitting over .300 (Tulowitzki, Gonzalez, and Olivo). Playing Miller can’t hurt.
The Rockies either need to go on their annual win 17-of-18 streak and get some confidence, or moves need to be made.
As for today’s game, break out the purple jerseys! They haven’t been worn in a few years, so maybe they’ll bring some luck. Can’t hurt.
Agbayani is absolutely right. This is not a good hitting club. And they weren’t that good a hitting club last year either. I remember stretches where they could not buy a run. But last year they were charmed. For example, the pen would pick a night when they were up 5 runs to suck; result: a 1-run win. The next night in a close game the pen would be awesome. Sure it drove us all to drinking, but the end result was magical. A lot of that is luck, and the Rox were very lucky all last summer.
On overmanaging, I would say the constant line-up changes qualifies. As does the batting order randomization.
This team plays like they don’t like baseball. They get a 1-run lead and they cross their collective fingers hoping it will be enough while hurrying to get to the end of the game (giving away AB’s in the process). They try to do too much because they know the guy behind them in the batting order is going to screw it up somehow. They collide with each other catching routine pup-ups because they have not mastered the most basic skills like communication. This season is a lost cause, so I’d like to see them just go out and try to have some fun and give the fans their money’s worth.
Swede, you said it all. Speechless.
How do you lose to that team? Aside from McCutchen and Jones I am not sure any of those guys belongs on a 25 man roster.
Here is how:
Man at 3rd to a rookie lefty and you call for a slider that DLR is notorious for throwing about 50 feet.
Man at 3rd with one out and Barmie hits it to the 3rd baseman.
Spilly forgets the cardinal rule – never make the first out at 3rd base.
Uggh. It is time for a major shakeup. I love Dex and he will be part of this team in teh future but he needs to get some time to check the sites down here in Colo Spgs. After that I say the whole line-up needs to be reexamined. On the positive side, Hawpe hit a homer and against a leftie. We need you Bradley – continue the work.
Okay, guess I wasn’t speechless but I cannot believe I gave up three hours to watch that last night! Still believing though. Was that just the last vestiges of the trip hangover? This team could really use a day off (next Monday I think).
Probably the only positive was Hawpe playing decent first (he had a bobble but got the out) and hitting a double and a homer (both to the opposite field). The homer by Barmes, in my opinion, is a negative because now he will think he’s a home run hitter and won’t hit the other way. And the Post said that is what’s affecting Dex since he hit that homer against St. Louis (?).
Thanks to the post above that manager’s have been traded for each other. Just couldn’t remember where or when but figure “Trader” Lane was involved. I think he’s the one who also trade the HR champ Rocky Colavito for the Batting champ Harvey Kuenn.
Was watching a Yankee game the other day and heard the most amazing stat: Robinson Cano was 14 of 16 in scoring a runner from third with less than two out. One of the reasons why they are in first place. Rockies are probably 14 for 160.
I know the manager can’t run, hit or pitch for them. But he can make it easier for them to score a run at a time (one an inning is 9 runs) by bunting, moving runners over, hitting to the opposite field, hit and run, etc., etc. Now we have everybody trying to be the hero and hit homeruns.
I understand the frustration with the manager and the desire to assign blame, but a manager is only as good as the players he’s been given on his roster. Sometimes the decision they make can dramatically affect a game, but the Rockies’ chance to win a home game against the Pirates should not come down to a whether a manager chooses to pinch-hit for his leadoff hitter in the seventh inning. There were so many other things wrong with Tuesday’s game, that particular decision was relatively minor moment in the game compared to the Rockies’ near total inability to hit a below-average starter. The constant tinkering with the lineup is a bad habit Tracy has and he did it in the second half last season when the Rockies went through a similar stretch at the plate. Is the tinkering the problem or a symptom of the problem? I’d like to see a single lineup day in, day out, but major league hitters should be able to adjust to the different roles, certainly enough to score more than two runs against the Pirates.
What we’ve seen during this bad stretch, as we saw during the second-half offensive struggles last season, is something that has been lingering in the background for the Rockies for years, under Tracy and under Hurdle: the inability to hit with runners in scoring position and create sustained rallies on a regular basis. If it were the manager’s problem, it likely would have changed when Hurdle, whose lineups suffered from the same problem, was fired last season. After a good month, though, the lineup was again struggling in key spots. (That’s not to defend Hurdle as a manager; he made his fair share of mistakes.) The common denominator during that time is some of the personnel, hitters who are too willing to look at a strike three that’s an inch off the plate with a runner at second base or third base, then grumble about the bad call all the way back to the dugout instead of trying to take the ball the other way and maybe drive in a run or at least foul it off. It’s more than just that specific scenario, but it illustrates the larger problem: the Rockies as an offense are — and have been more or less the entire Generation R era — aggressive when they should be patient and patient when they should be aggressive.
exactly Bill. remember when the Rox and Tulo were struggling and Tulo tried to lay down a bunt and Tracy was upset with him for that?
Yeah, guess the signs were there that Jim Tracy isn’t really that interested in doing those type of things.
On your last thought, Bill, a lot of what you mention isn’t up to the manager. Tracy could call for more bunts, but he certainly isn’t telling his hitters to go up and try to hit a home run. There’s no sign for hitting the ball to the opposite field. He wants them to hit the other way to move runners along, but his hitters aren’t executing. I’d like to see the Rockies hit and run more, but you also need the personnel for that. The Rockies have a lot of swing-and-miss candidates — Barmes, Stewart, Olivo, Iannetta, Hawpe, Spilly — and in the past week when we’ve seen them try it, it’s turned into a least two strike-em-out-throw-em-out double plays. It’s more a personnel issue than strategy. One of the reasons Tracy likes Herrera is he gives him those options he doesn’t have with a lot of other players.
I’m not at all worried about Barmes’ HR affecting him adversely. Barmy has worked harder than most guys this year and understands his role at the plate. Fight off or go small with pitches away, pull it if the pitcher is dumb enough to go inside to him. Sure he makes a lot of ugly outs, pop-ups and strike outs. But that grounder in the 7th or 8th was hit pretty hard, and after a lengthy at bat. Too bad he did not score Olivo, but neither did anybody else.
I think between the 1st and 6th innings I would maintain the “go get ‘em slugger” mentality and if the team was succeeding there I would continue with that through the 9th inning.
But when a team has been DIEING for a win and absolutely struggling to score runs, doesn’t the manager (who is supposedly looking at the full scope of the ball game, not just the individual parts) have to take a responsibility and tell a kid thats struggling like Dexter and say “look son, we’re only down 1. We have a man on third. I trust you to lay a good bunt down here and I know you have the speed to beat the throw to first, now make it happen.”
Instead he allows 3-41 or whatever Dexter swing away.
Prog, I like your 1st-6th inning “go get ‘em” strategy.
My strategy is this: one HR swing per AB. You see a good pitch, swing for the fences. If you miss it or foul it off, give up on the long ball and concentrate on just getting a hit.
That’s a good way to put it, Prog. I don’t have a problem with him not pinch-hitting for Fowler there, but you’re right — given the circumstances there was a better way to use what he’s been given. For what it’s worth, I would have — as Gary mentioned above — pinch-hit Herrera instead of Smith in the nine hole that inning — there was about an 80 percent chance the Pirates were going to walk Smith even though it meant putting the go-ahead run on in that spot. Pinch-hit Herrera, who’s been the best on the Rockies at putting the ball in play. If he comes through or gets on base, then pinch-hit Smith for Fowler. But now here I am second-guessing, too.
You know we will never know what goes on behind the scenes with the Rockies. Something has fundamentally changed with this team from just a few weeks ago. Remember the ninth inning rally against the Cardinals, and all the never quit, play to the last out talk? Something has changed about the collective spirit of this team that we can only guess at.
Good point about pinch hitting Herrara instead of Smith because we lost his at bat and Tracy should have known that.
Steve I understand your point that the manager isn’t responsible for guys trying to hit homers but his philosophy doesn’t help. The one guy who does play small ball isn’t in the line-up. And if you do hit and run with the other guys it forces them to think about going the other way and perhaps make them less swing and miss guys.
What we’ve been doing lately doesn’t seem to be working and we are dangerously close to being out of both races. We can’t expect to win 17 of 18 or 21 of 22 whatever that was in 07. If we were playing top-notch defense and not making the mental mistakes and giving other teams an extra out or a free run we might be able to get away with scoring two runs a game.
Regarding coaching I’d just give them the benefit of the doubt they do talk about these things especially in this day and age of video help. I remember the FSN guys saying things like they talked to Baylor about poor hitting and he said, yeah they aren’t swinging at all at hanging breaking balls and taking advantages of bad pitches like that, or think it was over the weekend Drew G said Tracy mentioned to Dex he wanted him to focus on not hitting the ball in the air. I’d assume there’s tons of conversations like that. Now whether the players listen and execute…well think we’ve seen the results of late.
The Yankees won five straight world Championships with a manager, Casey Stengel, who was always tinkering with the line-ups. If it works, it should continue. This year, injuries and failure to perform have brought about the tinkering. In the circumstances, it worked until the last 12 games.
Agree wholeheartedly that the team does not bunt enough – under Hurdle, it bunted too much. Remember?
Batting philosophy is what it’s all about.
The Rox seem to like:
“Look for a pitch in your zone.”
Instead of:
“Hit it where its pitched.” and “With two strikes, protect the plate.”
It’s about time everybody waking up and making the comparison’s between Tracy’s and Hurdle’s lineupt tinkering. No wonder these guys can’t hit. They never know when they’ll be in the lineup.
More hit and run? The way these guys strikeout?
Make contact!!! Put it in play!!! I’d rather see a 643 GDP than two K’s looking.
If O’Dowd doesn’t move Hawpe this week, he’s out of his mind. Just get a couple of prospects (even mediocre ones) because you know Brad ain’t getting invited back next year. We saw the writing on the wall with him during the post-season last year. Why are we all still crossing our fingers with this guy?
While we’re on the subject, what are the chances that Barmes, Iannetta and Francis hit the market just to dump some salary? (Especially if we lose to the Pirates again?)
Iannetta and Barmes don’t make THAT much. You don’t move them simply to clear salary because next year you probably can’t replace them for the price they are locked in at. The move on either of them must be strategic.
Francis is another story, but no one wants him unless the Rox cover much of his salary.
What dunderhead would give up even one prospect for Hawpe? The only way we’re rid of him is to buy him out at the end of the year.
I think Barmes is moveable. You keep hearing alot about how the BoSox have an interest in Iannetta…in the off-season. He’s moveable with the depth the Rox have in C prospects.
I don’t know if Francis should go yet. Cook? Maybe. You’d think DlR would be gone unless DO’D really wants to pony up the bucks for him after this season. If any of the starters are gone then we need a starter and I don’t think Friedrich is ready yet. And the Sky Sox have been in the same slide as the Rox lately only their pitching is horrid until you get to Matt Reynolds at the end of the game.
It’s no secret that I think the starting rotation needs to be more solid to make a run. I had recently posted up I think the rotation will be overhauled for next season. Many disagree and are quick to point out that Cook is locked up. So what does everyone think about the latest rumors floating around which seem to have originated in the NY media?
While I do think the odds of Cook being gone next season are fairly high, the latest rumor has caught me off guard. Maybe Cook for Theriot? We could see it happen when the Cubs get here on Friday? Are they serious? Cook for Derrek Lee would not have surprised me. I was almost expecting it. Theriot??? Nope
Mr. Ringolsby, Mr. Foster, I know it is only a rumor (although several sources are now saying Cook is available), but I don’t understand why the Rockies seem so intent on a 2nd baseman? Can someone please help me understand this?
Ok this is not the way it should be done. MLB TV just announced the Rockies are “QUIETLY” trying to move Cook. No mention of a possible Theriot deal.
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