Micah Hoffpauir

I am so excited to finally watch a Chicago Cubs game in Spring Training. So, I am gonna do my best to do up-to-the-minute highlgihts.

9:06 p.m.: Getting ready to start. White Sox John Danks is the starting pitcher. So Taguchi plaays right field for the Cubbies. Derrek Lee is off, Micah Houffpauir is at first. Seems sold out, which I think it is. Groovy.

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If you are a true Cubs fan, you know who I am talking about. Mike Fontenot, a.k.a "Little Babe Ruth" (as Cubs Radio Announcer and Legend—Ron Santo—calls him), should and needs to be given the second base job in 2009. 

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sing Cabrera where he worked best in Buffalo.

The Cubs are reportedly recalling minor-league stud Micah Hoffpauir, who’s been up with the team once already and shone, with an impressive .400/.432/.571 line. But why bring up a left-handed first baseman when you’re starting Derek Lee and have lefty pinch-hitter Daryl Ward as his backup? Well, Hoffpauir can also play well in the outfield, and Alfonso Soriano is still about a week away from returning, at best, while Kosuke Fukudome is 7-42 in July, and could use a rest now and again.

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l theirs.    I would like to see Lou Piniella bring up 2 players specifically.  Micah Hoffpauir and Matt Murton.   There had been some talk of Eric Patterson who does have the speed element that Soriano has but Patterson is another left handed bat like Hoffpauir.   Murton being right handed gives Lou the option of a Murton-Reed Johnson- Kosuke Fukudome outfield against lefties.   Lou could shuffle DeRosa to left and play Cedeno in the infield if he wants.  Hoffpauir is a given with the way he has swung the bat in the spring and in his short callup.  

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DeRosa, Theriot, Fukudome, even Micah Hoffpauir, props to them all. Their schedule is looking tougher this month with interleague, but if they can come out of June still ten to fifteen games over .500, it's gonna be an exciting fall in Wrigleyville '08. Go cubbies.

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