Rox Pile » Claudio Vargas http://roxpile.com A Colorado Rockies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:21:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Morning Dump — Wednesday, February 23rd http://roxpile.com/2011/02/23/morning-dump-wednesday-february-23rd/ http://roxpile.com/2011/02/23/morning-dump-wednesday-february-23rd/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:26:21 +0000 http://roxpile.com/?p=1162 The Rockies’ lineup is a work in progress. The parts are all there, but Jim Tracy is still deciding how to allocate them. Jim Armstrong’s article suggests that four spots are already taken. Dexter Fowler will hit leadoff, CarGo will hit third, Tulo will bat clean-up, and Iannetta will hit eighth. That leaves four more spots for Tracy to fill with Seth Smith, Todd Helton, Jose Lopez and Ian Stewart. Who knows how it will end up. I’ll give some more thoughts on the topic later on this week.

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“How guys play will determine how it plays itself out, if a guy is swinging the bat well, he may be in the two hole. If he isn’t, maybe he moves down. That’s just the way baseball works. I like open competition.” — Troy Tulowitzki

Fanhouse ran a piece on Tulo yesterday. Apparently, he’s a pretty decent ballplayer.
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Vargas is an eight-year veteran that has played for five franchises — six, if you count the Expos and the Nationals as two separate teams. From 2003 through 2007, he was a very average starting pitcher, never winning more than twelve games in a season. In 2009, pitching from the bullpen for the Dodgers then the Brewers, Claudio had a breakout year. He appeared in thirty-six games with a 1.74 ERA and a very impressive .968 WHIP. However, 2010 was the worst year of Vargas’s career. He was shelled in 17 appearances, causing the Brewers to designate him for assignment early in the season. Vargas will turn thirty-three in June.
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