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In Defense Of Alfonso Soriano
Written by wrigleyville   
Sunday, 05 October 2008
It doesn't take much for many Cubs fans to turn on Alfonso Soriano. Hell, some were never on board in the first place. So, when he started slowly, some questioned whether he should be batting leadoff. Some questioned whether he did the little, unselfish things necessary to win baseball games. Others still pondered whether he was good enough to play major league baseball at all. A hot streak quieted all that - even through his six-week DL stay with a broken hand - and it stayed quiet until this week. Failure demands a scapegoat. And that scapegoat is the $136 million man. Fine, though we would argue that short of Carlos Zambrano, Mark DeRosa in Game 1 and Derrek Lee in Game 3, the failure of the 2008 Cubs in the playoffs was a total team failure. Soriano, however, is getting more than his fair share of the blame - including a few posts down on this blog. Which means it is a useful time to remember that there is a very good chance the Cubs would not have been playing in October 2008 without Alfonso Soriano.* They certainly would not have played in October 2007 without him.* The Cubs were 69-38 with Soriano in the starting lineup this year. They were 28-26 without him in the starting lineup. Not only that, the leadoff spot was adrift this year when Soriano was out of the lineup. How much so? Glad you asked: The final column is the percentage of production from Soriano in the leadoff position over the full year. Therefore, Soriano had 62 percent of the at-bats in the leadoff spot but 65 percent of the runs and hits, 71 percent of the doubles, 88 percent of the home runs, 75 percent of the RBIs, 68 percent of the walks (!), 100 percent of the intentional walks, 67 percent of the strikeouts (bet you thought it would be more), 60 percent of the GDPs, 76 percent of the steals and 43 percent of the caught stealings. *And, yes, we fully concede he was abysmal at the plate in the 2007 and 2008 playoffs. It is disappointing. But the Cubs were in the playoffs each of those two years largely because of Alfonso Guilleard Soriano. As always, we firmly believe that if the Cubs get to the playoffs with regularity, something good is bound to happen. Some day.

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