2009 Recap: Micah Hoffpauir

I could make this short-n-sweet: the Hoff - not as bad with the glove as we feared, nowhere near as good with the stick as we hoped.  Ah, but that ain't fun, is it?  And, since it appears that Micah Hoffpauir actually seems to have a place in the Cubs 2010 plans, let's look at what we might expect. He raked like a man in Iowa for about 3 years - the times I saw him there, I felt sorry for him.  He seemed to be majors-ready, but with Derrek Lee in his way at first base, there was no real need for him.  And yes, I understand that those same three years, Lee didn't do very much for us.  Lee first broke his wrist, then had the misfortune of having his daughter come down with a degenerative eye disease, but his wrist healed and there seemed to be progress of a sort concerning his daughter's disease, so we all waited for him to bounce back to something close to his 2005 breakout year, and waited. In the meantime, the Hoff was right there, ...