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  1. DuWayne Steurer
    I wonder what albert belle thinks of the new slide rule.
  2. DuWayne Steurer
    Just what ender said. As the players realize how tightly this rule is going to be applied, they will adjust. They won't have a choice. As others have said, regardless of what rasmus' intent was, he was nowhere even near the bag. This is not an issue is he's on the base. Not only that, but what if the throw is bobbled or dropped? Don't you want to, you know, be ON the base in that kind of situation? Since rasmus was oversliding to the opposite side it made absolutely zero sense.
  3. DuWayne Steurer
    Taking pitches working counts etc etc and watching 3to type players May not be visually "exciting" to some. I get that. Everyone has a preferred "style" and watching guys go up there who are looking for 6-7-8 pitch at bats does not appeal to everyone.
  4. DuWayne Steurer
    As far as movie trailers go, this one was really well done. The music and the cuts did a really fantastic job of setting the tone. It's my understanding that this is going to be more of a "War/spy" movie than an "adventure" movie, like the other movies have all been. I'm totally on board with that. I'd like to see a depiction of the Empire where the stormtroopers aren't complete bungling fools, incapable of performing even simple tasks.
  5. DuWayne Steurer
    Hawk Harrelson calls a fly ball a "can of corn". It was a homerun. http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v577028183/cwsoak-hawk-calls-canhas-shot-can-of-corn Watching the video, it was pretty much a no-doubter. Harrelson confirms he is one of the worst announcers.
  6. DuWayne Steurer
    I certainly agree that "number of at bats" shouldn't be the only consideration. I guess (which I should have said in my initial post on this point) this just feels like tinkering for the sake of doing it. It's entirely possible CC has a reasoning for doing it this way, and the reasoning is sound, it just doesn't *feel* like it. It just feels like doing something different *just because*
  7. DuWayne Steurer
    I like Santana batting first. I have always liked high OBP, good power guys hitting leadoff. A homerun is a nice way to start the game! Also, strikeouts matter less for your leadoff guy, even moreso than anyone else. Nobody is on base, so the "productive out" isn't in play at that point anyways.
  8. DuWayne Steurer
    I think the key in all of this was "compared to Khris Davis" Many have been praising his defense here with no comparison to Khris Davis. Interesting. Khris Davis' defense was pretty terribad. I think a lot (not all) of the talk of Santana's defense was that he would be an upgrade from Davis in that department. IIRC, Davis had the worst ranked throwing arm of all outfielders in MLB last year. I think his release velocity was less than like 77 mph. Obviously defense is more than just throwing arm, but that's just absolutely atrocious. That being said, I think Santana will probably be around 'Average" in the outfield (which again, will be an upgrade from Davis). Davis was -1.1 DWAR last year, -.2 the year before, and -.4 the year before that (partial year), so whatever the "eye test" says, the numbers say he's just not good out there.
  9. DuWayne Steurer
    He did not appear in the box score http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1993-03-18-arizona.html
  10. DuWayne Steurer
    I think the key in all of this was "compared to Khris Davis"
  11. DuWayne Steurer
    The statheads say that the numbers compared to hitting the pitcher ninth are more or less neutral. And Craig Counsell says the numbers are more or less neutral. So given all of that neutrality, I'm more or less neutral on the idea. Each spot in the batting order gets 19-ish more plate appearances per season than the spot before it. Depending on who your #8 guy is (Villar?) don't you want that .650 or .700 OPS guy getting 19 more plate appearances than a spot that's going to produce a .300 -ish OPS? I guess if the whole thing is "it doesn't matter"...... why do it? I get the whole "Santana is the leadoff guy and he has power and we'd like to have someone on base when Santana bats", but how many times is the pitcher going to come up with 2 outs and a guy on base because he's hitting 8th? At that point it's just a diminishing return. To me it seems like fiddling around with something that doesn't need to be. It's doing something "out of the box" just to do it. That's all I'm getting at.
  12. DuWayne Steurer
    Am I the only one who's not totally on board with this "hitting the pitcher in the 8 spot" business?
  13. DuWayne Steurer
    Interestingly enough, back in 2007, the Mets lost a game when a runner was called out for intereference in a similar play, so that rule has actually been enforced *fairly* recently. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-slip-marlon-anderson-slide-article-1.241251 At any rate, Bautista did not stay on the base, and he reached out and grabbed the fielder's leg with his hand, so this was an easy call. I don't even understand what Gibbons is arguing about. Whether you're a fan of the rule or not, it was easy to apply in this case.
  14. DuWayne Steurer
    That's kind of (or... exactly) what I thought. Pena is what he is, I mean he's not a top notch prospect, but at the same time you don't toss guys aside after one bad inning either.
  15. DuWayne Steurer
    Making outs at home = frustrating.
  16. DuWayne Steurer
    Even in what will most likely be a tough year for the W/L record, there will be things that individual fans will take enjoyment out of watching. Watching some new young guys break in and hopefully develop, maybe some kids like Arcia or Phillips make the 25 man later in the year and play good ball. That's what this thread is about.
  17. DuWayne Steurer
    Strikeouts are definitely a side effect of taking more pitches, but one I will gladly suffer if it means we're walking more, carrying a higher OBP as a team, and just making pitchers throw more pitches.
  18. DuWayne Steurer
    What a great game...... I mean if you're just a fan of college basketball, that was a great game, and an amazing finish. Paige drills the off balance circus 3 with less than 5 seconds to tie, and then Jenkins cans the 25 footer for the win at the buzzer. The only way that could have even been scripted better was if the UNC basket had given them a lead instead of a tie. Possibly one of the best college BB games I've ever watched.
  19. DuWayne Steurer
    Anderson: "Capuano put together some terrific years for the Brewers back in the day" Well..... *year* is probably more accurate BA.
  20. DuWayne Steurer
    That was a TERRIBLE throw. It was up the line, and a four hopper. (Rewound and watched it again)......and Scooter was STILL out by 3 steps. What in the HECK is Sedar doing there? I know there's going to be the "the Brewers create runs by being aggressive" crowd, but the only chance he had to be safe would have been if Pagan had airmailed the ball over Posey's head, or the throw had been so offline that Posey would have been unable to actually make a tag.
  21. DuWayne Steurer
    The windmill is at it again.
  22. DuWayne Steurer
    I know this is one game (not even half of one game), but I absolutely don't care if we have 4-5 guys that strike out more than 150 times if the end result is we have a bunch of guys taking pitches, walking a lot, and making pitchers throw a lot of pitches. I like this. It seems like we had a team that just didn't do this much last year.
  23. DuWayne Steurer
    That's unfortunate. Hate to waste baserunners when Bumgarner is struggling to throw strikes.
  24. DuWayne Steurer
    Power from unexpected places.
  25. DuWayne Steurer
    Man, these guys are making Bumgarner throw a lot of pitches. EDIT: 49 pitches after 2 frames.
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