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  1. topper09er
    Or bet everyone you could find that Babe Ruth would hit 54 HRs in 1920. I think I would enjoy seeing famous games rather than just one player in their prime, like what did Babe Ruth do in the 32 WS when he "called his shot" or Don Larson's perfect game, Bobby Thompson, Willie Mays' catch, Carlton Fisk, Harvey Haddux game (which my grandpa actaully was at) Lou Gehrigs speech...there are so many
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    All they had to do was lose the series, so if his AB didnt matter then he could try to get a hit. Im sure they realized that everyone on the team cant just strike out and drop every ball hit to them or it would have been too obvious. Maybe they told him to try the whole series unless he was up with the winning run on 3rd or something. That way even to this day people can make a case that it wasnt fixed.
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    See Ted Williams on the last day of the season in 1941 when he entered the day at exactly .400 and went 6-8. See Ty Cobb get ejected from a game. See the dead ball pitchers in person and judge whether guys like Johnson, Mathewson or Young were good enough to get Albert Pujols out. See all of the WW2 players get those years back and then look at the stats. Ted Williams missed 5 years in his prime, he could have finished .350/.490/.650 3500H, 700HR, 2500RBI. Also Warren Spahn missed 3 years and still finished with 361 wins. Dimaggio missed 3 years (ages 28-31), and in my opinion one of the most underrated players of all time, Hank Greenberg, also missed 5 years and led the league in HRs the years before and after the war.
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    Chances that Braun and Fielder play on Thursday? I would say 0%. They have an off day...but your point that Rivera wont get to play on Wed and Fri making (gasp) 3 games in a row is sad.
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    I think it is pretty much unanamous the Pujols is the best hitter in baseball, maybe not best overall player but certainly best hitter. There is really nothing that Mauer does better than Pujols at the plate. Pujols strikes out less, walks more, hits for a higher average with more power and even steals more bases. When some is having the best year they have ever had, then they are infact by definition having a career year, like Mauer this year. Why does being a catcher prevent him from hitting .400? If anything, it may help him a little bit because the days off give him fewer ABs making it easier to hit .400. It is easier to hit .400 over 500 PAs than 600+PAs just because it is difficult to keep that high level of play up for a long time.
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    I always thought it might be interesting to start a few games with the intention of allowing each pitcher to face each batter only once, no matter what...unless the game is not close when the lineup turns around for the 5th time late in the game. So that would require probably 4 pitchers going 2+ innings each and the batter seeing a different guy each time. The way current teams are set up this would be difficult because you would have 4 pitchers unavailable for the next day, but if we had an offday I wouldnt mind seeing Suppan+Looper+Coffey+Stetter/Dif each get one chance through the order.
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    we have 11 runs and Escobar was just the first player to leave anyone on base all game
  8. topper09er
    Fielder is now tied with Pujols with 102 RBI with 9 less HRs
  9. topper09er
    Did Parra just hang that 0-2 slider pretty badly?
  10. topper09er
    Nice work ManBearParra, lead off double then strikes out the side.
  11. topper09er
    Seriously, Braun has not walked since July 29
  12. topper09er
    Another ML debut + Home day game = sweep
  13. topper09er
    Fielding % is not a good stat to separate average defense from above average, but it can tell you if someone is below average. McGehee has a .884 fielding % at 3rd, the league average is .960. His range factor is also below average. I think it is safe to say he is a below average fielder, maybe not terrible but below average.
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    I know what a game score is and I regard as "just for fun." I dont care what his game score was, 5.1 IP, 9K, 1 R = good outing, effective pitching, outing was only short due to high pitches required to get 9Ks. 8IP, 0R = good outing. 5IP, 2ER = 3.60ERA and 1.4 WHIP = pretty good/good outing.
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    So did the Giants and Bruce Bochy about Tim Lincecum
  16. topper09er
    Well Rivera is starting today for the first time in a while, and it appears Kendall's savy, verteran, pitch calling and staff handling abilities have proven to be useless as the entire staff is terrible...So, why does he ever play over Rivera ever? Why cant Rivera get a 5 games in a row?
  17. topper09er
    So when a team scores 22 runs in 2 games you blame the manager over the pitchers? Um, OK, like what managerial decision would you have made that would have made a difference? Who would you have started over Villy? Dillard, because he looked amazing yesterday?
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    Actually, Suppan did not give up the 2nd grand slam. The 6th inning went Suppan pitching: walk, bunt, single, double (2Rs), intentional walk. Then Stetter: double (1R), walk. Then DiFelice: Grand slam (4R), flyout, flyout. So of the 7 runs scored in the inning was charged with 4 and obviously his replacements did not do any better. So maybe he left Suppan in a few batters more than he should have his replacements didnt do any better do so how can you blame the manager. If he left in Suppan rather than some using some relief aces (who were rested and could pitch 4 innings) that is one thing, but we dont have that on this team.
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    Then its just a debate about whether whoever is in charge of the HOF should "reinstate" Rose instead of Bud. It is still the same debate just different debators.
  20. topper09er
    Last I checked Macha didnt up 2 grandslams to the same Washington National or lead the league in (pitching) walks and HR given up. whose fault is it? Jeff Suppan, Braden Looper, Dave Bush, Manny Parra, Seth McClung, Carlos Villanueva...
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    (class of '03, #9 in baseball and football) I agree that you need to be careful with any young pitcher and make sure he is not overworked to the point of an injury. I just think that the point at which an injury may occur for every player in the league is different and it is silly to use the same benchmark of 100 pitches/start with the occasional 115 mixed in for every single player. Some players, like HOFers Seaver, Ryan proved that their number of pitches before ineffectiveness/injury is much, much higher than 100/start and some pitchers are expected to be able to throw 100/start when they cant. The stat the 69% of injured pitchers were below the average PAP level shows that it is just as bad to expect players to throw 100/start than it is to allow some guy to throw 140, even more so. That is another reason I dont like using pitch counts to determine a pitchers work, not only does it assume everyone gets hurt after a certain level it assumes everyone can last the same length on the mound. If Yo is crusing in the 8th inning with 125 pitches you are not risking injury to him, especially when he comes back the next start at the same level. His injury level is higher than 100 so why limit him to it.
  22. topper09er
    Rotation on opening day 2008: Sheets Suppan Bush Villanueva Parra Rotation on opening day 2009: Gallardo Suppan Bush Parra Looper I think it is fair to say Gallardo=Sheets, so going into this season the staff is pretty much the same, you could expect Suppan to get worse but I think it would have been pretty difficult to think Bush and Parra would have fallen like they have. Also, Looper=Villanueva at least. As far as the lineup, all starters are the same and most of them are still entering their prime which means you would expect them to level off or increase. I think it would have been pretty difficult to predict the horrible falls of Hardy and Hart and the Weeks injury hurts. Braun and Fielder are both playing better than last year by wide margins. So going in you have to look at the team and feel it is very similar to last season but probably better due to the extra year of development for our young players. We were close and made a big deal mid season which (barely) put us over the top. If DM went into this season thinking: if they are playing well and in contention in July, I can pull the trigger on Peavy and set us up just like year. Instead, we have lost big production from offensive role players and all of our pitchers except for Yo are terrible, with Suppan and Looper 2 of the 4-5 worst starters in all of baseball. Not Kenny's fault.
  23. topper09er
    If STL makes the playoffs, even wild card, it is Pujols in a land slide. If we make the playoffs and they dont then it will be really close and Prince would have a chance. The team result is Prince's only hope, unfortunetly, but that is how MVP voting usually works with guys with close stats.
  24. topper09er
    I really think that the reason the vast majority of pitchers never make/dont last long in the majors is due to ineffectiveness/sucking rather than overuse and arm problems.
  25. topper09er
    This is not true, the HOF does not allow anyone on the permanent suspension list to be elected. Therefore, Rose would need to be removed from the permanent suspension list which can only be done by the commissioner. Pete Rose accepted a spot on the permanent suspension list voluntarily is exchange for MLB never making public their specific findings regarding how he gamlbed as a manager (Rose claims that rather than betting on a certain few games and possibly saving pitchers etc. for those games he just bet on every single game and managed the same way he would have if he hadnt bet on the games. If this was true there was no reason for Rose to be concerned about his specific gambling trends because the evidance should just show he bet on every game. Pete Rose also claimed that he never bet on any games ever, but we all know how true that was). So Rose would need Selig to remove him from the permanent suspension list for the HOF to consider him.
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