You're Doing It Wrong

Jim Hendry, on Andrew Cashner's role for 2010, in Dave van Dyck's report yesterday:

"It's way too early to tell," GM Jim Hendry said. "We don't have to decide now. We're trying to win games. He's in the role he needs to be in.

"At some point, we'll have his input involved, too, but it won't be in the middle of the season. We'll address it this offseason."

So Andrew Cashner, the Cubs' #1 pitching prospect, will most likely spend the remainder of 2010, a season where the Cubs have a 5% chance of making the playoffs, in the bullpen because the Cubs are "trying to win games."

In 2009 Cashner pitched 100.1 innings between Daytona and Tennessee, and 19.2 innings in the Arizona Fall League. He needs to reach at least 150-160 innings in 2010 to continue the path to starting pitcher.

He pitched 57 innings in the minors before his call-up the last day of May. In his 23 days with the big league club, he's pitched 8.1 innings.

He's on pace to pitch about 100 innings this season.