Tom Gorzelanny receives attention after taking a liner off his pitching hand Wednesday. (Phil Velasquez/Tribune)
By Dave van Dyck
Cubs pitcher Tom Gorzelanny will miss at least one start because of an incomplete hairline fracture and swollen left hand after being hit by a line drive during the team's 5-3 victory Wednesday over the Pirates.
A CT scan
Thursday revealed the small, incomplete hairline fracture underneath the fingernail of
his left little finger, which is stable. But it is his swollen palm that
will keep Gorzelanny from making his next start. How long he misses will be
determined after the swelling subsides.
No starter has been named to take his place next week, but Carlos Silva could be activated by then. He has been on rehab assignment (irregular heartbeat) at Class A Peoria.
first off let me say Cincinnati is playing well. Baker has a good young and up coming team. with some pitching they could be good for some time.
what was his excuse for 2003 and 2004? he had arguably the best team in baseball in 2003 and couldn't get them to the WS.
same with Louie in 2008. this maybe HOF manager had the product, what happened?
could LaRussa, Torre, or Girardi taken those teams to the WS?
what was that recent St. Louis team that won about 85 games and went on to win the WS? that was an average team with a good manager.
when the team wins it's "Baker/Louie took us to x playoffs", and when the team loses it's "the over paid players aren't producing", or "we have a bad product on the field", or "it's the product not the manager". which I agree to a certain point. average manager in 03, bad manager in 08.
some fans are happy with "he took us to within 5 out of the WS". or "he took us to x amount of playoffs". not me.
the manager gets paid to do his best so when one plays his favorites, you could say he's tanking. when another quits/cries cause he doesn't have the product, he should be fired as he was.
Riggleman took jobs with bad products, he didn't cry, quit, tank.
Quade and Sandberg want this "bad product" job. they think they can do better with the same "bad" product then Louie.
you have ups and downs and you go with it, managers are part of the product. the good ones suck it up, the bad ones cry and or quit, the average ones are just happy to work.
an average team plays better with a good manager, they play bad with a bad crying quitter. good team, great teams, etc go as good or bad as there manager is.
again what was that recent St. Louis team that won about 85 games and went on to win the WS?
managers have to adjust. Louie was a bad part of this bad product. he signed on cause the trib promised to spend money for good products just like Tampa did and when they didn't Louie quit as he did in Tampa.
we need a manager who has your back, doesn't cry when things go bad.
who was that Sox manager who did the Abbott and Costello bit?
we had Foster Grant and Nipsey Russell the last 8 years.