Mike Fontenot

25 November 2008

ost likely Raul Ibanez.  3) Move Mark DeRosa to right field and fill the left-handed need with Mike Fontenot.  4) Stay pat and hope Kosuke Fukudome hits like he did in Japan.

Just looking at the situation I would have leaned towards option number three for plenty of reason.  But lets take a look at the numbers. 

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17 November 2008

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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12 June 2008

Defensively, Mark DeRosa will likely slide into left field and Mike Fontenot will return to second base, a spot he occupied with some success last year and occasionally this year. He'll be across the keystone from fellow LSU Tiger Ryan Theriot, and these two seemed to make each other better in those spots last season, so Chicago fans hope for more of the same. But neither Fontenot nor DeRosa are leadoff guys, so Theriot might move back up to the top spot in the order.

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