{"id":12559,"date":"2017-06-28T19:54:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12559"},"modified":"2017-06-28T19:54:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:54:45","slug":"that-escalated-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/that-escalated-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"That Escalated Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday was a rough day for Miguel Montero. \u00a0The Cub catcher was on the hot seat after the Nationals stole 7 bases during their 6-1 victory Tuesday night, leaving him at 0-31 at nabbing would-be base stealers for the season. \u00a0When questioned after the game, Montero placed the blame squarely on starting pitcher Jake Arrieta, saying, “It really sucks because the stolen bases go on me. \u00a0When you really look at it, the pitcher doesn\u2019t give me any time. \u00a0It\u2019s just like: \u2018Yeah, OK, Miggy can\u2019t throw nobody out.\u2019 Yeah, but my pitchers don\u2019t hold anybody on. \u00a0It\u2019s tough, because it doesn\u2019t matter how much work I put in. \u00a0If I don\u2019t get a chance to throw, that\u2019s the reason why they were running left and right today, because they know he was slow to the plate. Simple as that. It\u2019s a shame that it\u2019s my fault because I didn\u2019t throw anybody out.”<\/p>\n

Those comments did not go over well in Cub-land. \u00a0Anthony Rizzo, unofficial team captain, appeared on ESPN 1000 this morning and called out Montero as being selfish, noting that Willson Contreras has no issues throwing runners out. \u00a0A few hours later, Montero’s time with the Cubs had come to an end, having been designated for assignment. \u00a0Given the $7 million he is owed for the remainder of the season, a trade seems unlikely.<\/p>\n

Montero had a few highlights in his 2 1\/2 years on the North side, including his Game One grand slam in the NLCS last year against the Dodgers to give the Cubs the win. \u00a0Will he catch on somewhere else? \u00a0Or is this the end of the road for the former all star catcher? \u00a0We’ll likely find out over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

Montero\u2019s numbers in a Cub uniform, both for games I attended and overall, were:<\/p>\n

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Yesterday was a rough day for Miguel Montero. \u00a0The Cub catcher was on the hot seat after the Nationals stole 7 bases during their 6-1 victory Tuesday night, leaving him at 0-31 at nabbing would-be base stealers for the season. \u00a0When questioned after the game, Montero placed the blame squarely on starting pitcher Jake Arrieta, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2363,120,116,3603,5735,5172,117,1647,7454],"class_list":["post-12559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-anthony-rizzo","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-espn-1000","tag-jake-arrieta","tag-miguel-montero","tag-nationals","tag-nlcs","tag-willson-contreras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12564,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions\/12564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Career Batting<\/b><\/caption>\n
BA<\/span><\/th>\nAt Bats<\/span><\/th>\nRuns<\/span><\/th>\nHits<\/span><\/th>\nRBI<\/span><\/th>\nWalks<\/span><\/th>\nStrike Outs<\/span><\/th>\nDoubles<\/span><\/th>\nTriples<\/span><\/th>\nHR<\/span><\/th>\nSB<\/span><\/th>\nGIDP<\/span><\/th>\nErrors<\/span><\/th>\nGames<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
0.080<\/span><\/td>\n25<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n11<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n13<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0.242<\/span><\/td>\n686<\/span><\/td>\n81<\/span><\/td>\n166<\/span><\/td>\n94<\/span><\/td>\n98<\/span><\/td>\n185<\/span><\/td>\n22<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n27<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n20<\/span><\/td>\n21<\/span><\/td>\n243<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n