2006 Season Recap (and 2005)
Hitting Stats:
SEASON TEAM G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG AVG 2006 Chicago Cubs 16 38 6 10 2 0 2 5 18 2 10 0 0 .317 .474 .263 16 38 6 10 2 0 2 5 18 2 10 0 0 .317 .474 .263
SEASON TEAM POS G GS INN TC PO A E DP PB SB CS RF FPCT 2006 Chicago Cubs 1B 6 6 46.0 46 43 2 1 1 --- --- --- 8.80 .978 2006 Chicago Cubs 3B 5 3 32.0 7 3 4 0 0 --- --- --- 1.97 1.000 11 9 78.0 53 46 6 1 1 --- --- --- 6.00 .981 Scott Moore with the Solar Sox, Mesa, Arizona
For those of you not familiar with the AFL, it is a post-season developmental league (roughly AA+) sponsored by MLB that is designed to provide added experience for AA and AAA players who are considered potential MLB players.
There are six teams in the AFL, and each team receives seven players from five MLB clubs. The teams providing players to each team varies from year-to-year. This season, the Mesa Solar Sox received players from the Cubs, the Houston Astros, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Minnesota Twins, and the New York Mets. The Cubs also are providing the Solar Sox manager this time around, and that would be 2006 AA West Tenn skipper Pat Listach. Players wear the home (or road) uniforms from their parent MLB club and a Solar Sox cap.
The Cubs players assigned to the Solar Sox this year are RHPs Adam Harben (acquired from MIN in the Phil Nevin deal) and Lincoln Holdzkom, LHPs Carmen Pignatiello and Clay Rapada, 2B Eric Patterson, INF Scott Moore, and C-OF Jake Fox. (Harben started yesterday's game and was the loser, giving up just a solo home run in two innings of work).
Six of the seven players assigned to the Solar Sox from each of its MLB clubs are on the regular 30-man roster, and one position player from each of the five MLB clubs is assigned to the five-man "Taxi Squad." Players assigned to the Taxi Squad are only eligible to play on Opening Day, all Wednesdays, and all Saturdays, but they also provide a cadre of players available to replace an injured position player from 30-man roster.
Although the Taxi Squad has not yet been announced, it is likely that Scott Moore is the Cubs Taxi Squad representative. And there is already an injured player on the Solar Sox who will probably need to be replaced, that being #1 SS Chin-Lung Hu (LAD, who suffered what appeared to be a broken finger or hand after being hit by a pitch in the 5th inning.
As for tonight's game, I won't go into great detail about what happened, but I will mention how each of the Cubs players performed.
Jake Fox (at catcher) and Scott Moore (at 1B) came into the game in the middle innings, and each got one AB. Fox struck out on a slider, and Moore smoked an RBI double into the left-center alley. Most of you have seen Moore, because he was recalled by the Cubs and got to play a bit (mainly 1B and PH) over the last few weeks of the 2006 season. I would project Moore as a future Geoff-Blum-type 3B-1B-LF-RF lefty bat off the bench, although I guess he could be an everyday MLB 3B on the right team. The Cub Reporter http://www.all-baseball.com/cubreporter/archives/024457.html
It's finally Happened! Scott's in the Bigs! as #15
Moore gets first start at first base09/07/2006 2:45 PM ET CHICAGO -- Rookie Scott Moore made his first Major League start on Thursday at the position he may be least familiar with.
Moore started at first base for the Cubs, filling in for Derrek Lee, who had played three days in a row and needed to rest his right wrist. Moore played mostly at third base for Double-A West Tenn this season, with only four at-bats as a first baseman. He had to borrow John Mabry's glove for the Cubs' game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
"I have one, but it's not ready yet," Moore said.
Mabry has had some back problems, which is why he wasn't called upon. Moore, 22, was a pitcher in high school then switched to catcher. He'd never played first in Little League or high school but has played shortstop and third. Mabry and coach Chris Speier have been working with Moore at first, including a session on Wednesday in which he practiced his stretch.
"I've been taking ground balls over there," Moore said. "I'm ready."
Cubs drop finale, despite Moore's mojo - 2 Hits & A HOME RUN! By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com
CHICAGO -- Rookie Chris Duffy led off the ninth inning with his second homer of the game, and Xavier Nady added his 16th one out later to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 7-5 victory over the Cubs, who dropped into last place in the Central Division.
With the score tied at 5 in the Pirates' ninth, Duffy smacked a 1-0 pitch from Scott Eyre (0-2) to left center, his fourth hit of the game. Eyre exited, and Nady connected off Ryan Dempster.
The game was played in front of 27,105, the smallest crowd at Wrigley Field since 20,032 attended the Sept. 26, 2002, game against Cincinnati.
Duffy led off the game with his first home run, hitting Cubs starter Sean Marshall's second pitch into the right-field bleachers. Nady added a two-out RBI single in the Pittsburgh third, driving in Duffy who had singled and stole second.
The Pirates had runners at first and second in the fourth when Jose Castillo hit a grounder to third baseman Aramis Ramirez, who threw to Freddie Bynum for the force at second. The runner was out, but Bynum dropped the ball and was unable to turn a double play. Humberto Cota then hit a sacrifice fly, and Shawn Chacon hit an RBI double and scored on Duffy's single to open a 5-0 lead.
The Cubs rallied. Bynum doubled to lead off the fourth, and Ramirez followed with his 32nd home run. One batter later, Angel Pagan was safe on a fielder's choice and scored on rookie Scott Moore's first Major League hit, a double.
Pitcher Carlos Marmol, who had taken over for Marshall in the fifth, led off the Cubs half with his first big-league homer. He even tapped his heart and blew a kiss to the TV camera after getting back to the dugout, a la Sammy Sosa.
Moore then tied the score at 5 with his first home run with one out in the sixth, hitting the first pitch from Chacon.
Scott's First Box Score Hit - Now Hitting .400!
Pittsburgh
AB
R
H
RBI
BB
SO
LOB
AVG
Duffy, CF
4
3
4
3
1
0
0
.226
Wilson, SS
3
0
0
0
2
1
1
.273
Nady, RF
5
1
2
2
0
1
2
.289
Bay, LF
4
0
0
0
1
0
2
.284
Doumit, 1B
4
1
1
0
1
2
3
.204
Randa, 1B
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.262
Bautista, 3B
3
0
1
0
1
0
4
.248
Castillo, 2B
4
1
0
0
0
2
4
.268
Cota, C
3
0
0
1
0
2
1
.192
Chacon, P
3
1
1
1
0
2
1
.125
Perez, J, P
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
Sharpless, P
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
a-Burnitz, PH
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
.232
Marte, P
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
Bayliss, P
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
Torres, P
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.250
Totals
34
7
9
7
6
11
18
a-Struck out for Sharpless in the 8th.
BATTING
2B: Chacon (1, Marshall).
HR: Duffy 2 (2, 1st inning off Marshall, 0 on, 0 out; 9th inning off Eyre, 0 on, 0 out), Nady (16, 9th inning off Dempster, 0 on, 1 out).
TB: Duffy 10; Nady 5; Doumit; Bautista; Chacon 2.
RBI: Duffy 3 (15), Nady 2 (57), Cota (5), Chacon (1).
2-out RBI: Nady; Chacon; Duffy.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Bay; Wilson; Bautista 2.
SF: Cota.
GIDP: Castillo.
Team LOB: 7.
BASERUNNING
SB: Duffy 2 (18, 2nd base off Marshall/Blanco, 2nd base off Marshall/Blanco).
FIELDING
DP: 2 (Wilson-Randa, Wilson-Castillo-Doumit).
Chi Cubs
AB
R
H
RBI
BB
SO
LOB
AVG
Pierre, CF
5
0
0
0
0
1
1
.289
Bynum, 2B
2
1
1
0
1
0
0
.250
b-Theriot, PH-2B
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
.329
Ramirez, 3B
4
1
1
2
0
1
1
.280
Jones, RF
3
0
1
0
1
0
1
.286
Pagan, LF
3
1
0
0
0
1
2
.271
c-Murton, PH-LF
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
.296
Moore, S, 1B
3
1
2
2
0
0
1
.400
Lee, 1B
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
.301
Blanco, C
4
0
2
0
0
0
2
.266
Cedeno, SS
4
0
1
0
0
2
3
.243
Marshall, P
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
.143
Marmol, P
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
.261
a-Coats, PH
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
.000
Walrond, P
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
Aardsma, P
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
Novoa, P
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.200
Eyre, P
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
Dempster, P
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.000
d-Mabry, PH
1
0
0
0
0
0
