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Article: Piniella backs off from comments about moving Soriano from leadoff spot
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- SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2009
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By Gordon Wittenmyer Sun-Times News Group MESA, Ariz. - So much for the idea of Alfonso Soriano moving from the leadoff spot this season. Cubs manager Lou Piniella distanced himself Thursday from his unsolicited pronouncement three days earlier that he would consider Soriano for a middle-order spot, calling such a move ''improbable.'' ''I never said that we were going to move him out of there,'' Piniella said. ''I said that we were going to take a look at the 'possibility of.' ''What I said was basically we're going to take a look at it and see how it's working. But I also said that if we were opening the season in Houston tomorrow, he would be our leadoff guy. I'm comfortable with him ...
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