Fear The Chorizo
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vintage Yost - bring in a questionable option to start a critical inning, leave him in two batters too long, bring in a LOOGY and end up watching him give up more runs by facing right handed hitters until Yost brings in a righty oh, and Fielder belongs in the AL now - just terrible defense
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I appreciate those on the board who spend far too much of their free time breaking down statistics, probabilities, and critically overananlyze everything under the baseball-related sun - the data that are compiled and presented often do a great job of summarizing what has happened. In the reality of baseball, all of that analysis is about as useful as a knowledgeable baseball fan's gut when it comes to predicting outcomes of specific events within the game. Here is where I have a big disconnect with statheads - I feel that there's a "chicken or the egg" dilemma with statistical analysis. What I mean by that is there's always going to be a stat that points to why something happened - and when there isn't it gets grouped into the 'sample size' or 'statistical outlier' category. While that's valid statistically, it doesn't explain why such an outcome occurred - that's where I think some of the condescension and smugness occurs when the statistically inclined butt heads with others who are looking to quantify something that doesn't fit well on paper (health, momentum, heart, guts, clutch, winner, etc). The fact is the events that are statistical outliers in baseball are among the best (and worst, depending on what end you're on) moments in the sport. Statistical analysis is completely vital in personnel evaluation, building a major league roster, and putting players in positions to succeed - understanding the nature of a relatively simple game that is easily the most unpredictable in all of sports on a game-by-game basis is hopefully something everyone can agree with.
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I'm not exactly sure why anyone would wonder why Sheets appeared to "lose it" once as he approached the 100 pitch mark today, 1 start after pitching a complete game
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Extra bases for Hart would be nice here
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Craig Counsell is God's gift to baseball
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time for the top of the Brewer order (that resembles the bottom of most orders) to get some guys on base
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good thing Shouse was up to face the lefty too bad Ned forgot to bring him in the game to face him. at least keep it here so this lineup has a shot
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is there even anyone in the pen warming up right now?
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great...time for damage control
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Peavy's probably done after this inning - 116 pitches
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This one's gonna come down to bullpens
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Must be getaway day for the umps, too
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it has the look of one of them forfeit lineups that's good for 6-8 runs, if you ask me!
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I'd like to see the Cubs lose the last game of the series in Atlanta heading into one their personal house of horrors down in Miami.
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Hopefully they continue to play well, since they play the Cubs 6 games and the Brewers only 3
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If he's cleared to be throwing from a mound, I'm sure he's been running and strengthening his legs a long time. Since it's his drive leg, pitching from a mound is probably more stressful on his knee than anything else he may do on a baseball field. It's not like his knee is on the verge of blowing out again - it was repaired and the leg needed to be strengthened through rehab, which is apparently going great. If he can't run and change directions safely, then he shouldn't be cleared to pitch from a mound, IMO. If he can't run or change directions, guess what the first 5 batters will do - bunt. No way he's cleared to be pitching from a mound before he's been able to do any sort of sustained running - that would be risking injuring his arm, which is something the Brewers won't do.
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He has been playing catch for quite awhile, so it's not like spring training where some pitchers start their throwing program without touching a ball for 3-4 months. He's already got good armstrength built up, now it's time to start incorporating the mound. I would think there is plenty of time for Gallardo to get stretched out enough to start games in a month's time - that's about the timeframe a pitcher's spring training is, anyway. Now I'm officially excited - until he was cleared to pitch from a mound, I was trying to keep my internal Yo clock from starting...with no hiccups, I think he's got a good chance to be pitching for the Brewers in 4 weeks.
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Brewer 3B Options For The Rest of The Year
Fear The Chorizo replied to rluzinski's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
how much of 10 pitch Counsell strikeouts are him being a professional hitter, and how much of that is him simply being bad at making solid contact on hittable pitches? Give me a paycheck and a bat and I'm suddenly a professional hitter too - that doesn't make me a good one. It's one thing to work the count when a pitcher's not giving hitters strikes to hit - it's another to foul off a series of good pitches to hit in RBI situations. I'd have no problems with Counsell if he wasn't being used so much as a corner infielder, and hitting 6th in this lineup, no less. His role should be a defensive replacement in the late innings, and a backup middle infielder. it's also tough to quantify him costing us no games by citing how well the offense has hit lately, since I think that goes hand in hand with the Brewers facing bad pitching lately, too. Nationals, Reds, injury-riddled Braves? Not exactly teams loaded with aces and lock-down bullpens right now, if you ask me. -
Cards Vs. Cubs: Who Should We Root For?
Fear The Chorizo replied to jjgott's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Brewers are 3.5 games up on the Cards for the wild card lead Brewers are 3.5 games behind the Cubs for the division lead Now that they're not playing each other, how about we root for both teams to lose? -
this inning is suddenly looking bad...make a pitch, shouse!
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Kendall's been scuffling a bit lately, but it also doesn't help that opposing baserunners seem to get running leads on alot of the Brewer pitchers.
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are you watching this game? defensively, he's solid, and while I have no problem with him taking up a roster spot on this team to be used as a late inning defensive replacement in the middle infield/spot starter to give regulars breaks, he should NOT be taking ABs away from Branyan by starting at third against righties.
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my question here is, why pitch to Hart?
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with their bullpen situation, my guess is mock will probably be left in a batter too long, and give up a big inning somewhere in here...hopefully that's right now
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glad Bush got out of that jam, but wow - that was stink on ice right there by the top of the Nats' order