2011-07-26 Cubs (Dempster) at Brewers (Narveson) - 7:10 PM CDT [Brewers win, 3-2]

[jjfanec]

Man, if Castro develops more power he's gonna be an absolute beast.

I think Castro will be very good but along with power he needs to learn to walk a little more as well

[endaround]

Why are you using Counsell? Counsell's strength is in the field. This is when you use Kotsay.

[Gobias Industries]

He hasn't been that bad. He had a couple bad games in a row now, but he's had a handful of multi-hit games off the top of my head since the break. Not to mention winning one game with a bomb.

Weeks has to be sub .200/.300 ob since the break. Small sample but it's not like he's just hitting into poor luck either. He's fouling off/swinging thru more good pitches to hit than anyone besides Casey. Definitely would like to see him leadoff again and see if that wakes him up (not to mention I don't think he's a middle of the order guy...poor situational hitter).

[Glennron]

Every time Counsell is announced as a PHer I die a little inside. He's just wilting away.

 

Even KRod's warmup throws in the bullpen look violent.

[markedman5]

0-35 and counting

[Gobias Industries]

Is it just me or do the broadcasters go out of their way to highlight every little thing McGehee does well? For some reason calling that hit a triple is grating on me and I shouldn't even care.

No it's not just you. He's definitely a favorite of Brian and Bill. And the media apparently, who somehow voted him team mvp last year. He's supposedly a really nice guy, but holy crap does it bug me too.

 

IIRC, they were not nearly as sympathetic to Hall's season long struggles or Weeks' early in his career.

[owbc]

Is it just me or do the broadcasters go out of their way to highlight every little thing McGehee does well? For some reason calling that hit a triple is grating on me and I shouldn't even care.

I think it goes both ways--you could certainly argue that online posters are too hard on McGehee and go out of their way to point out every little thing he does wrong.

 

The spotlight is on him, that's for sure.

[mastershake76]

Hart is just waving at pitches lately.

[chuckcrim]

Hart really seems to have 1 terrible swing every AB.

[Funketown]

Weeks has to be sub .200/.300 ob since the break. Small sample but it's not like he's just hitting into poor luck either. He's fouling off/swinging thru more good pitches to hit than anyone besides Casey. Definitely would like to see him leadoff again and see if that wakes him up (not to mention I don't think he's a middle of the order guy...poor situational hitter).

Since the break he's hitting .220/.319/.439/.758. A player like Weeks will have quite a few stretches like that in spans of ~50 PA's.

[endaround]

Hart is just waving at pitches lately.

This is just visual bias of him striking out now and then and looking bad when he does.

Hart the past 7 days:

.294/.400/.412

Past 14 days:

.220/.319/.488

Hart hardly has been burning things up buts he's been good.

[bucksman4]

Hart really seems to have 1 terrible swing every AB.

 

 

He looks terrible because he swings over so many breaking ball pitches and looks silly when his swing is flat and the ball is in the dirt.

[ilovebeer]

Nice job K Rod

[markedman5]

that was an inning of beauty by KROD.........just carved them up

[Gobias Industries]

Weeks has to be sub .200/.300 ob since the break. Small sample but it's not like he's just hitting into poor luck either. He's fouling off/swinging thru more good pitches to hit than anyone besides Casey. Definitely would like to see him leadoff again and see if that wakes him up (not to mention I don't think he's a middle of the order guy...poor situational hitter).

Since the break he's hitting .220/.319/.439/.758. A player like Weeks will have quite a few stretches like that in spans of ~50 PA's.

.220 .319 .488 .807

 

Corey's stats since the break. He's been slightly better than Weeks, but yet there's a few posts a night complaining about how he's slowed down or been bad this year and nothing about Rickie.

[jjfanec]

Give me a left-handed reliever and I would love our bullpen. Having guys like Hawkins and Saito as your 3rd and 4th best guys is pretty fun

[Gobias Industries]

Braun finds more holes than any other hitter I've ever seen. It's awesome.

[brettac1]

Weeks has to be sub .200/.300 ob since the break. Small sample but it's not like he's just hitting into poor luck either. He's fouling off/swinging thru more good pitches to hit than anyone besides Casey. Definitely would like to see him leadoff again and see if that wakes him up (not to mention I don't think he's a middle of the order guy...poor situational hitter).

Since the break he's hitting .220/.319/.439/.758. A player like Weeks will have quite a few stretches like that in spans of ~50 PA's.

.220 .319 .488 .807

 

Corey's stats since the break. He's been slightly better than Weeks, but yet there's a few posts a night complaining about how he's slowed down or been bad this year and nothing about Rickie.

Neither one has been that bad.

[ilovebeer]

Reds lose!

[Funketown]

.220 .319 .488 .807

 

Corey's stats since the break. He's been slightly better than Weeks, but yet there's a few posts a night complaining about how he's slowed down or been bad this year and nothing about Rickie.

I'm not sure where those comments are coming from either. Hart has been pretty productive. Perhaps part of it is just that he is what I'd term an "ugly" ballplayer. He's tall and lanky so he looks slower than he is, he takes some terrible swings on sliders away, etc.

[ilovebeer]

Please score here, thanks

[jjfanec]

Braun finds more holes than any other hitter I've ever seen. It's awesome.

Well his one out today was a really hard hit ball that Dempster snagged so he missed on that one

[markedman5]

rickie seems to be swinging at a bunch of pitches out of the zone lately

[markedman5]

offense goes into the toilet again after the first inning........lets hope Ax can make it hold up!

[ilovebeer]

Here comes Ax, please lets have the good Ax this evening.