Around the Cubs Blogworld
What the Cubs Blogger Army has been writing about the past few days while I was away:
After -23 RCAA/.652 OPS and -23 RCAA/.678 OPS seasons with the Diamondbacks, Womack is every pitchers’ dream, “hitting” .304 SLG, .251 OBA, .555 OPS, -32 RCAA in 83 games (61 with the Diamondbacks, 21 for the Rockies and 1 for the Cubs). He has a .675 career OPS, compared to his league average of .777, and -126 RCAA in 1002 games. Womack’s .158 offensive winning percentage is not only as offensive as they come, but he’d have to go on a big hot streak just to raise himself up to being as bad as an average Tiger. If you took a whole team of Womacks, they’d be an impressive 11 games behind the Tigers–and that’s assuming that they are given an average pitching staff. If they gave up runs at an equivalent rate below the league average as to how many they’d score, their 9-115 record would put them 22 games behind the Tigers.
Womack has the 4th worst OPS vs. the league average, among active players with 1000+ games . . . .
With Womack, Doug Glanville, and Randall Simon all on the same team, the Cubs’ out-making potential is off the charts.
Northside Lounge, The Cub Reporter, Let’s Play Two, And Another Thing!, Weeghman Park, Dan’s Cublog, and Cubs Pundit all have comments on the Womack trade.
On a final note, here’s Phil Rogers writing in Thursday’s Tribune: “The Astros could be without ace Roy Oswalt for the rest of the season. [ed.: good news for the Cubs] . . . Oswalt won 19 games in 2002, taking a 33-12 career record into the season. But so far he is 6-5 with a 7.62 ERA in 17 starts.” How does one get a 7.62 ERA out of a 3.23 ERA (Oswalt’s actual ERA)? I thought at first Rogers somehow multiplied 3.23 by 2, but nope, that’s not it.