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What was great was that he didn't even flinch AFTER he was hit but the ball went ricocheting off his tricep like it hit a cement wall. -
Good thing we sac bunted. /blue
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What? I think he means the tag that Counsell applied on the pickoff was late. I suppose it makes up for that, except that this play was at home.No, I just mean that the ball beat Counsell by 5 feet and Molina made a swipe tag and missed Counsell because of the outstanding slide. Had Molina bent over more and continued his swipe along the ground he would have tagged Counsell. Instead he missed him. Basically, if those exact plays are replayed over and over again, I would guess that we'd get 1 run out of the two opportunities most of the time on those decisions.
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Prince was safe there. Counsell should have been out though so I suppose it's kind of even.
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I love gritty veteran slides.
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I'm a big fan of leadoff triples.
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This is what I thought 5 years ago. However, it's gotten to the point where I think their coaching staff is hands down the best in the league. I've heard many stories about pitchers who want to play for Dave Duncan because he sees adjustments to their mechanics so quickly and easily. I think their scouting of opponents is outstanding as well, thus every pitcher knows how to attack every hitter on the opposition. When Braden Looper, Joel Pineiro, Kyle Lohse, Jeff Suppan, Jaime Garcia, Kyle McClellan etc. etc. etc. all have career years with the same team it is hard to just say "wow, I guess St. Louis is just lucky!" Berkman credited somebody on their staff to his turnaround as well.
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Wow, I like this lineup a lot. The Hart/McGehee thing really isn't a big deal, and with Lucroy batting 8th and Hart 6th we actually have a decent chance to score throughout the lineup. If Prince gets walked, then he gets walked. It's likely that Hart would have to be faced anyway in that scenario, unless it's always with 2 outs. If Casey happens to pull through, great, then Hart will have lots of guys on base for him and we'll be that much closer to the top of the order again. It's just great to see Yuni, Gomez, Kotsay, and Nieves all on the bench.
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I think what RockCo meant to say was that pitchers don't pitch differently from one batter to another, thus it is basically luck on whether or not any individual pitch that a batter sees is going to be a strike or a ball. How a batter responds to a sequence of those pitchers obviously varies widely among batters based on their approach, from the YuniB school of hitting to the Craig Counsell school of hitting. I agree with this on average, but there are certainly situations within a game that a pitcher changes his approach. On average, it all comes out in the wash and it looks like everybody is pitched to the same. This is obviously wrong though, when you constantly hear pitchers themselves (pay attention to Orel Hershiser on Sunday night baseball) talk about how they change the way they pitch to different guys during different situations.
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Did they? Perhaps you are correct, I'm not sure, but I'd like to see a statistical breakdown of runs scored by SF in innings that Bonds was intentionally walked vs. innings that he wasn't even though the situation may have called for it from 2001-2004. Considering that Bonds' rate statistics were Ruthian or better during that time (.560 OBP, .810 SLG), and he played a full schedule, I would think that either his run totals and RBI totals should have also been equally or near equally gargantuan. But they weren't. Of course they were still near the top of the league, but not really in line with his off the charts rate stats. What does that say? When he got on base he didn't score as often as the average person who got on base, and when he hit a homer/double, he didn't drive in as many runs as the average guy who gets a homer or a double. This is a very rough, eyeballing the stats way to do this sort of thing, but it seems to me that managers did a good job of pitching around him during that time.
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Won't RR not PH the second catcher in case the starter gets hurt? He's done it multiple times this year already.
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Wolf, Marcum, and Greinke all have contracts ending after next year. Wolf is old and very average so there is no way we bring him back unless it is for very cheap. I find it hard to believe that Melvin won't make a good run at signing Marcum and/or Greinke, because with the state of the farm as it is we are going to have to sign somebody anyway. Those guys will already be established here, and both seem like guys who are a good fit for the city and ballclub. I won't be shocked if neither of them sign, but I think it's more likely than not. Prince is long gone though. David Ortiz and Jorge Posada are the DH's out East. One of those teams will overpay for an excellent DH. LAA and Baltimore are possibilities as well.
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I guess Pagan isn't a very quick learner after those 3 changeups made him look successively sillier.
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wow. He was playing DEEEP.
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Walk, homer, and Axford for the save.
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Casey gets Bronx cheers on back-to-back nights.
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I really would have been happy with one of Yuni's patented fly outs to the warning track there.
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Braun should have stayed at first on that passed ball.
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The way things are going lately, it's more likely a single and a dinger to lead off the 7th, seven straight outs, then another single and a walk-off job in the ninth (Braun leads off the 7th)
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Considering Braun's contract status right now, is he the most powerful person in the Brewers organization next to Mark Attanasio?
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For a guy his size he's probably around a 4, but I gave him a 2 because I wasn't grading on a curve. The only real positive thing I can say about him is that he seems to have pretty good instincts as a fielder (although not as a scooper), and doesn't make many outright errors on balls hit very near to him. Otherwise he is pretty much in the poor category at everything else.
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If the Brewers do tinker with the Roster at the Deadline
Oxy replied to brewmann04's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
Posada has been a Yankee since 1895, and is now playing almost everyday as a DH. I'd say that Craig Biggio has a better chance of coming out of retirement to get behind the dish every 5 days for the Brewers than Posada. I bet that Craig Biggio could suit up tomorrow and out-hit Wil Nieves too. -
Cut Nieves and Bring Back George Thread
Oxy replied to Bombers's topic in Transaction Rumors & Proposals
True, but I'd rather have to use a PH for my #2 catcher than have to put my starter in as a defensive replacement for my #2 catcher. -
I firmly believe that the NL will be able to beat the Yankees in the All-Star game this year. 6 out of the 8 starting position players are Bombers right now.
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Prodigious AAA power with a poor eye and poor BA kind of screams ineptitude at the MLB level. To me, that basically means he can only hit mistake pitches by AAA pitchers. If a pitcher doesn't make a mistake, he gets out, and that is by guys who don't have MLB stuff. Sure, that is the case with most hitters in general, but he seems to be an extreme case.
