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Remember Yogi Berra pointed out that good pitching beats good hitting and vice versa -
I agree and I hate Betancourt, Id rather have a Counsell/Wilson platoon, but my point was that every team has guys who suck just like us and Im just happy we can rip on Betancourt while being 8 games over .500 and our rotation looks great.
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Impressions of Roenicke so far (part 1)
topper09er replied to adambr2's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
He has called 3 squeeze plays (I think?) over the hundreds of times it was possible, and they have all worked. Are you really going to criticize this? Not every event in baseball follows the average result every time. You can look up the average runs scored in any situation but half the time more runs are scored and half the time less runs are scored, the situation needs to dictate what to do. The best managers realize the times when the play that is usually the worse play is actually the better play in a certain situation. -
Carlos Corporan Still Hitting 1.000
topper09er replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
That game was Braun's career high in RBI with 6, a grand slam and a 2 run single off of Janish. Here are his career high RBI games: Rk Date Tm Opp Rslt PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS 16 2010-06-14 MIL LAA W 12-2 4 4 2 2 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 17 2010-04-22 MIL PIT W 20-0 5 4 3 3 1 0 1 5 1 0 1 0 18 2009-06-15 MIL CLE W 14-12 6 5 4 3 0 1 1 5 1 1 1 0 19 2008-07-20 MIL SFG W 7-4 5 5 1 2 1 0 1 5 0 1 1 0 20 2009-05-06 MIL CIN W 15-3 6 6 2 3 0 0 1 6 0 1 0 0 -
I remember Bill James did a little write up in his Historical Abstract about how unlikely it is for a team to have above average players at every position and that in the history of baseball there has never been a team that had an above league average player at every position, and closest he could find was the 1941 Dodgers who lost the WS. We are not going to have every player be above average so its not like Betancourt is making us the worst team in the league. As long as we don't have a thread here titled something like "What changes do we need to make to the rotation" I will happy to come back here occasionally and criticize Betancourt for being the worst, laziest and dumbest player in the league.
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Cal Eldred is the pre-game guy for the Cards on FS-Midwest, he refers to them as "us" That doesn't sound right
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He could be running an errand for Zach Greinke, remember "I'd say the average person wouldn't eat a Chipotle burrito and still do his running, full speed, like me. That's why they call me special." -ZG
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This is game number 5000 in the managing career of Ol' Asleep at the Wheel La Russa
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Well maybe this was true in the days of George Davis and the Cincinnati Red Stockings, but nowadays, most likely when this phrase was coined, baseball is played by virtually all young boys in the United and many more in Japan and Latin America. Probably at least 100,000,000 boys play baseball every year and about ~5000 men play it professionally. So it does certainly make sense, most men are not professional baseball players.
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Id send Rickie early in this at bat, if hes out then Braun doesnt have to lead off the 9th at least
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Nice AB there by Casey, maybe he will start hitting again, he drove an outside pitch to right pretty nicely
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Well this would be a nice time for McGehee to get out of it, im feeling GIDP though
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Betancourt cannot even execute a run down, he is so bad. The runner on third should have definitely tried to score with 2 outs
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Teams are so dumb to pitch to Prince with Casey on deck. Ive been saying it for a while and it is still true.
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fastball right down the middle with the pitcher on deck. WHY?
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From RRR: “He’s been our guy,” said Roenicke. “I still have confidence in him. He’s getting some sinkers up in the (strike) zone. They’re not down like they were earlier. “We’ve been pitching great. You’re not going to pitch great all year. I still really like Kameron Loe and I have a ton of confidence in him.”
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Brewerfan Poll: Prince Fielder's Defense
topper09er replied to And That's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I remember seeing a study a while ago that basically concluded that the single greatest skill a 1B can have is height because their best value comes from saving errors. I think it also concluded that scooping is done at such a high level in MLB that you can pretty much assume most throws in the dirt will be scooped...which makes Prince look even worse because he doesn't do that very well. Also his range is pretty terrible, that double last night from Beltran in the 8th looked like it was about 2 feet from Prince but he couldn't do anything about it. And finally, although the chances are pretty rare for 1Bers, his throwing is terrible. It seems like every throw he makes is bad. I had to give him a 2 because of the Adam Dunn/Mark McGwire types earning the 1 score. -
Right now Prince is 13th in WAR for all of MLB, 7th in the NL.It's not really fair just to look at this season for Prince though, is it? Since 2007, he's 24th in the majors in WAR. Since 2008, he's 28th.
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The game is in AZ so there wont be a DH right?
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We should tell Boras if Prince signs a 5 year 100MM contract we'll let his son be our utility infielder/mop up pitcher in blowout losses next year
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Right now Prince is 13th in WAR for all of MLB, 7th in the NL.
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I was interested in this an I tried to look it up and here is the best I could find, there have been 37,121 PA so far this season and 7091 PA that have started 0-2 across all the NL for 19.1%. (this includes all following counts after 0-2). It was 19.0% for the NL last season. McGehee has started with 44 0-2 counts over 244 PA for only 18.0 %, so he is not even in the top half of NLers for most 0-2 counts seen.
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I tried to post it earlier but whenever I copy/paste it never seems to work. I have the most updated Firefox but I dunno
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Weeks 2011: Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS 2 outs, RISP 20 24 19 3 1 0 1 5 1 0 5 10 .158 .333 .368 .702 Late & Close 30 39 35 10 1 0 2 3 1 2 2 9 .286 .359 .486 .845 Tie Game 57 94 86 28 2 1 7 10 0 0 6 23 .326 .383 .616 .999 Within 1 R 60 162 144 40 6 1 9 15 2 2 13 33 .278 .352 .521 .873
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Morgan thought they were already winning in the bottom of the 9th!?! This guy is crazy and definitely not an "old school, keep your mouth shut and never smile type" I cant wait for him to do something that pisses off the Cards
