Alfonso Soriano quietly reaches 10 Home Runs

P_Manning 18 · Apr 30, 2011

Ive heard about:

Andre Ethier
Matt Kemp
Jose Bautista
Derek Jeter
Ryan Braun

But Soriano is quietly having a good season.

CubsFan13 · Apr 30, 2011

He's finally earning his money.

Darwin Barney is also quietly leading all rookies with 29 hits.
Amazingly, he is batting 10/20 (.500) with runners in scoring position which has resulted in 11 rbi.

ChasHawk · Apr 30, 2011

now if the Cubs pitching staff would pull their heads from their collective asses, the team would be having a decent season.

ballerskrip · Apr 30, 2011

SORI!

Now if Pena could get a pulse and get two SP off the DL, life would be much better as a Cubs fan.

skrip

Pastretta · Apr 30, 2011

I'm so happy about his nice start to the season lets hope he can continue this!!! :mrgreen:

cmnkb8 · May 1, 2011

Awful lot of solo shots.

gonzagacubs · May 1, 2011

I am pretty surprised he has got off to the start he has. The Cubs have had problems getting runners on base in front of him though. Like someone earlier said, lot of solo shots. I hope he can keep it up.

Someone also mentioned Barney, he has been great so far as well. I hope he continues his good play. Cubs might have their middle infield set for a few years.

Topnotchsy · May 1, 2011

I've (somewhat) quietly wondered what it would take for Soriano to get HOF consideration. He's been viewed pretty negatively over the last few seasons, but the guy has done some pretty impressive things:

7 time AS
4 Silver Slugger's
40/40
4x 30/30 (of which 3 were: 39/41, 38/35 and the aforementioned 46/41)
324 career homers, 262 SB's

And he spent the first 5 years of his career at 2nd base.

He's got 3 more years on his deal after this one, and there's a decent chance he gets to 400 homers and possibly 300 SB's.

Don't think he'll make it in, but surprised his name never comes up in the discussion.

ThoseBackPages · May 1, 2011

Topnotchsy said:
I've (somewhat) quietly wondered what it would take for Soriano to get HOF consideration. He's been viewed pretty negatively over the last few seasons, but the guy has done some pretty impressive things:

7 time AS
4 Silver Slugger's
40/40
4x 30/30 (of which 3 were: 39/41, 38/35 and the aforementioned 46/41)
324 career homers, 262 SB's

And he spent the first 5 years of his career at 2nd base.

He's got 3 more years on his deal after this one, and there's a decent chance he gets to 400 homers and possibly 300 SB's.

Don't think he'll make it in, but surprised his name never comes up in the discussion.

Juice and lying about his real age have not done him any good.

Junior Griffey · May 1, 2011

I remember when Soriano first started playing with the Yankees, I had a decent collection of his stuff. I was thrilled when the Cubs signed him, even bought a jersey. I hope he keeps this up but I can't imagine that he will.

James52411 · May 1, 2011

ThoseBackPages said:
Topnotchsy said:

I've (somewhat) quietly wondered what it would take for Soriano to get HOF consideration. He's been viewed pretty negatively over the last few seasons, but the guy has done some pretty impressive things:

7 time AS
4 Silver Slugger's
40/40
4x 30/30 (of which 3 were: 39/41, 38/35 and the aforementioned 46/41)
324 career homers, 262 SB's

And he spent the first 5 years of his career at 2nd base.

He's got 3 more years on his deal after this one, and there's a decent chance he gets to 400 homers and possibly 300 SB's.

Don't think he'll make it in, but surprised his name never comes up in the discussion.

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Juice and lying about his real age have not done him any good.

To my knowledge, he's never been associated with PEDs. Soriano gets unfairly maligned because the Cubs overpaid him, as though that is his fault somehow. He carried the Cubs into the playoffs in late 2007. Guy is a very good hitter and always seems to have a good attitude.

Brewer Andy · May 1, 2011

James52411 said:
Guy is a very good hitter and always seems to have a good attitude.

I can't say I watch him or the Cubs closely enough to comment on his attitude, but I'm willing to bet most casual fans think about the immaturity and selfishness over his position change in Washington first when thinking about his attitude. I don't think he's done too much to change the perception has he? I could be wrong

ChasHawk · May 1, 2011

He has done just fine with the move to LF, without complaining.

And he has also, without a word, been moved up and down all over the Cubs lineup
over the last few years, with the Chicago media talking **** about him all the while.

His retarded contract is Hendry's fault, not his. The Cubs bid against themselves in that deal.

archiebunkerjr · May 1, 2011

Brewer Andy said:
James52411 said:

Guy is a very good hitter and always seems to have a good attitude.

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I can't say I watch him or the Cubs closely enough to comment on his attitude, but I'm willing to bet most casual fans think about the immaturity and selfishness over his position change in Washington first when thinking about his attitude. I don't think he's done too much to change the perception has he? I could be wrong

That's interesting. I totally forgot about him being in Washington. The negative thing I think of with Soriano is his atrocious defense in leftfield. It seems like you can't go a week without him butchering a play on ESPN.

ChasHawk · May 1, 2011

archiebunkerjr said:
Brewer Andy said:

James52411 said:

Guy is a very good hitter and always seems to have a good attitude.

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I can't say I watch him or the Cubs closely enough to comment on his attitude, but I'm willing to bet most casual fans think about the immaturity and selfishness over his position change in Washington first when thinking about his attitude. I don't think he's done too much to change the perception has he? I could be wrong

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That's interesting. I totally forgot about him being in Washington. The negative thing I think of with Soriano is his atrocious defense in leftfield. It seems like you can't go a week without him butchering a play on ESPN.

he dorps a ball every once in a while, but has a ****-ton of outfield assists.

a lot of guys also just don't send runners on him anymore.

2008 - 5 errors
2009 - 11 errors
2010 - 7 errors

his career fld% in the OF is .968

ahill1 · May 1, 2011

I've always like Sori. He has gotten a bad rap because of that contract and like chas said its not his fault. He is a very streaky hitter and has a gun for an arm. I hope w can start getting runners on in front of him to take advantage of this hot streak he is on

nosterbor · May 1, 2011

this team is starting to remind me of the 84 team.lets see what happens around the end June. they started out like crap.but the players are there.

ahill1 · May 1, 2011

nosterbor said:
this team is starting to remind me of the 84 team.lets see what happens around the end June. they started out like crap.but the players are there.

If there pitching stays healthy good things could happen

James52411 · May 1, 2011

ahill1 said:
nosterbor said:

this team is starting to remind me of the 84 team.lets see what happens around the end June. they started out like crap.but the players are there.

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If there pitching stays healthy good things could happen

I hope you guys are right, but I am not so optimistic about the team this year. First thing they need to do is to put out the Dempster fire in the rotation.

Topnotchsy · May 1, 2011

An earlier post reminded me that Soriano is actually the only player ever who has hit 40/40 in a season without any accusations about steroids.

I think his defense is much maligned because it took awhile for him to adjust to the move to the OF, but I think a closer look shows he's not nearly as bad overall as some think.

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