Free Bobby Hill

Alot of bloggers have been on the free Choi wagon and Hill to some extent. I will now officially join the free Bobby Hill campaign. From the Chicago Sun Times.......

Second baseman Bobby Hill is recently off the disabled list at Class AAA Iowa and playing. But it didn't sound as if Hill being recalled soon was an option.

''I don't know if he is ready to play every day if he just got back,'' Baker said.

Not that you would ever play him Baker. This is just getting sickening to have Dusty Baker as our manager. Its just Bakers way of telling Hendry, "Dont call him up or i will do exactly what i did last time, let him rot at the end of the bench!"
At this point i want Baker gone. He is completly out of touch with what this team needs and who is the better option. If he seriously thinks Augie Ojeda gives us a better chance to win, he is about the stupidest person in baseball. Though most of us figured that out with Lenny Harris getting starts.

Hendry is powerless to stop Baker from being an idiot. The only thing he can do is release players to prevent him from using them. Maybe Hendry needs to release Ojeda to get Hill some playing time?
I dont know, but Hill has had a grand total of 4 AB's this year compared with last year where he got 190. If we are already giving up on Hill after 194 AB's in the major leagues something is seriously wrong with Dusty Baker and Cubs management. Its not like Hill has been completly horrible. He did bat .250 last year, if Alex Gonzales can keep his job hitting .250 after 10 years in baseball i am sure the Cubs can give a rookie more than 194 AB's to see if he can improve on those numbers in the majors regardless of what he did in spring training.

For the most part you can say Hill's career is over in Chicago. They guy we planned to play 162 games only got 5 games. The guy we stuck with instead of pursing Jeff Kent gets 5 games. Its a travesty, and a blatant lack of mis-management of the team if you factor in Choi, and the constant playing of O'Leary, Harris, Alfonseca, Estes.

Fire Dusty Baker, get a manager willing to work with prospects instead of abandoning them at the 1st little sign of trouble. I just wish Baker put half as much faith into Hill and Choi as he did into Lenny Harris.