topper09er
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Not sure about pinch running, but the answer is "Hurricane" Herb Washington, 31 SB 0 H Plus these Brewers: Mel Stocker, 4 SB 0 H Greg Martinez, 2 SB 0 H Broxton, now up to 3 SB 0 H -
Ding Dong
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Yes, but it hit Scooter's glove, and he is in the major leagues, so he should catch it. Same with Carter in the 1st
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the fact that they can just stall and review every replay before deciding to challenge is complete crap. You should have to challenge immediately based on what you saw with your eyes only.
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Ok Ill tip my cap on that play
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Our infield has allowed all of the earned runs tonight
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Scooter is just brutal
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Hit and run, outside pitch, and rivera fouls it behind himself...
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hey we made them pay for a crappy error, weird
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Walsh guessing with 2 strikes
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I don't think you can really have a throw "up the line" at second base BA
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That went well
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This team actually feels a lot like the Major League Squad, especially Carter and Uecker, and Braun as Dorn The biggest problem is that Craig Counsell could not be more different from the man's man Lou Brown.
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Looks like Chris Carter has a new hat http://www.thegoldensombrero.com/Images/goldensombrero.jpg
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Scooter is already #5 on the Brewers all time second basemen HR list (counting tonight) 148 Rickie Weeks 47 Jim Gantner 34 Pedro Garcia 30 Ronnie Belliard 24 Scooter Gennett 22 Fernando Vina
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To be clear I prefer our players do it since it leads to the best results, but I don't think its makes baseball better. Ideally I would like umps to force the players to follow "you better swing if its close" approach. Since they don't do that anymore taking pitches 1/8" off the plate is the better approach, just more boring in my opinion.
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No offense but I am very confused by people who think players taking pitches is more entertaining to watch.
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https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/1ab11107-f05d-4477-8b49-83fb128e4ee3
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This is misleading, WAR is a rate and counting stat. The reason he is in the top 30 for his 3 year career span is because he was a full time MLB starting SS for all of those years, thus getting more WAR than other newer but better SS with less playing time in that timespan. I am sure if you looked at WAR/PA over that 3 year span he would drop out of the top 30, where he belongs, because he is filler and not a legit MLB starting SS. Not sure if there is an easy way to find that but I don't feel like calculating it.
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Strikeouts & Winning... Does it matter?
topper09er replied to pacopete4's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Ideally what you want is for a player to choke up, protect the plate, and make more contact WITH 2 strikes. Not always. Nowadays every player takes the same approach every pitch (looking at you Rickie Weeks as exhibit A) What they should do is take their normal huge swings until they get to 2 strikes and then protect, unless they are are able to put up decent numbers with 2 strikes using their normal approach. These are usually all-star type players however. In 2002, Jose Hernandez's best year when he struck out 188 times, his 2 strike line was .176/.219/.260/.479. 7 2B, 1 3B, 6 HR. That OPS is 24% below the league average, including pitchers hitting numbers. So it looks like JH should have choked up with 2 strikes and he would have had a better season, but only with 2 strikes so he would not have had to sacrifice the other power stats he got. Take Mark Reynolds in 2009, 44 HR with 223 K. He was able to OPS just 6 points below the league average with 2 strikes while adding 14 2 strike HRs. So he would be an example where you probably would not need to adjust the approach with 2 strikes (except for key situations like R3 < 2 O but that is another topic) since he doesnt really suffer as much taking a huge swing with 2 strikes. -
Strikeouts & Winning... Does it matter?
topper09er replied to pacopete4's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
The missing link that is hard to measure is the trade-off between BABIP and the added OPS you get from taking more pitches and swinging harder. A K is the same as another out most of the time, but a ball in play is better than a K. You can't assume that every strikeout would just have been a ground out or something, so it is not equal to "another out". The league average BABIP was .302 last year, so if there were no strikeouts we could assume about 30% of those ABs would have resulted in a hit. So since we know K's do not directly correlate with crappy players, there must be a benefit to striking out. The benefit is obvious, if you K you take more pitches which means your chances to walk increases, and if you K you take bigger swings which increases your slugging if you make contact. So its really a balance between OBP, SLG and K. If you are good at all of those you are a HOFer because you dont have the missed BABIP penalty of striking out but can still maintain the high OPS. For regular players you just need to look at the OPS and ignore the Ks, it doesnt matter how they get there. -
Gomez and Fiers to Houston for four prospects
topper09er replied to trwi7's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Babe Ruth only struck out 1330 times -
This is now the closest, topping Dave Stieb's back to back 1 hitters on Sept 24 1988 (broken up with 2 outs in the 9th) and Sept 30 1988 (also broken up with 2 outs in the 9th!)
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Since there is a minor league team on the field I don't see any reason not to have minor league type off field distractions at the ball park.
