6/15 Astros [Nieve] @ Cubs [Z] 1:20 pm CT on CSN

[cheapseats]

Jason Bay GIDP and the Cards win 6-5 taking the series 2-1.

 

Sigh.

 

Add Bay to the list of non-clutch players. An outfield of Bay, Dunn, and Jacque Jones would be clutch-less.

[gerby23]

Ugh. Ramirez grounds out to third

[Jim Ignatowski]

Walker!! dbl with 1 out

 

Geez, with two hits today, Walker has probably earned a week on Dusty's bench.

[gerby23]

Walker!! dbl with 1 out

 

Geez, with two hits today, Walker has probably earned a week on Dusty's bench.

yeah, whats that .300 hitter doing upping his avg.?

[soccer10k]

New pitcher for the Astros.

[BigSlick]

Walker!! dbl with 1 out

 

Geez, with two hits today, Walker has probably earned a week on Dusty's bench.

yeah, whats that .300 hitter doing upping his avg.?

 

He needs to bunt more and give to the team.

[soccer10k]

Come on Jacque. Make it 2 HR's on the day. Or just 2 RBI's.

[gerby23]

Walker!! dbl with 1 out

 

Geez, with two hits today, Walker has probably earned a week on Dusty's bench.

yeah, whats that .300 hitter doing upping his avg.?

 

He needs to bunt more and give to the team.

AS long as quits clogging those bases with walks, Dusty might cut him some slack

[cheapseats]

Walker!! dbl with 1 out

 

Geez, with two hits today, Walker has probably earned a week on Dusty's bench.

yeah, whats that .300 hitter doing upping his avg.?

 

He needs to bunt more and give to the team.

 

Amen. He's only sacrificed once all year. What a selfish, selfish player. :D

[gerby23]

Good swing by Jacque. fly out to LF though

[soccer10k]

Jacque flies out to left field to end the inning.

[Balsa]

Good swing by Jacque. fly out to LF though

 

?Yeah, as Lend Kasper ais, "A lousd out". Too bad Wilsosn was right hter.

[soccer10k]

Good swing by Jacque. fly out to LF though

 

?Yeah, as Lend Kasper ais, "A lousd out". Too bad Wilsosn was right hter.

 

Have you been drinking?

[Wild_Cubs04]

Good swing by Jacque. fly out to LF though

 

?Yeah, as Lend Kasper ais, "A lousd out". Too bad Wilsosn was right hter.

 

Have you been drinking?

 

:lol:

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Good swing by Jacque. fly out to LF though

 

?Yeah, as Lend Kasper ais, "A lousd out". Too bad Wilsosn was right hter.

 

Stupid British keyboard. :P

[Big Fergie J]

Good swing by Jacque. fly out to LF though

 

?Yeah, as Lend Kasper ais, "A lousd out". Too bad Wilsosn was right hter.

 

I take it you enjoyed the England match today.

[Jim Ignatowski]

Walker!! dbl with 1 out

 

Geez, with two hits today, Walker has probably earned a week on Dusty's bench.

yeah, whats that .300 hitter doing upping his avg.?

 

He needs to bunt more and give to the team.

 

Amen. He's only sacrificed once all year. What a selfish, selfish player. :D

 

I understand that after last night's game Todd met with the toothpick and promised that if he could just bat second again he'd swing at the first pitch and hit ground outs.

[Big Fergie J]

Anyone up in the pen ?

[da bears]

Come on Z! Get out of it.

[Jim Ignatowski]

Good swing by Jacque. fly out to LF though

 

?Yeah, as Lend Kasper ais, "A lousd out". Too bad Wilsosn was right hter.

 

Have you been drinking?

 

No, he's been watch the U S soccer team and has become dysfunctional. :lol:

[CubColtPacer]

A jack for Jacque!

 

Bah, it was a meaningless homerun as the Cubs already had the lead.

 

Jacque = not clutch.

 

:twisted:

 

Trade him for Dunn.

 

A team with Jones, Dunn, and Arod as the heart of the order wouldn't win games because none of those guys hit when it counts.

 

Can't be any worse then the Cubs as currently assembled.

 

I'm not sure if you guys are being sarcastic when talking about whether Jones is clutch. I seem to remember about 2-3 games where a Jock hit was clutch...

 

I'm totally being sarcastic.

 

a) I don't believe in guys being able to "bear down more" in clutch situations like Brenly does.

b) Jones has hit better with RISP than just about everybody else on the team.

 

I think you'll find, with nearly any team, the player with the highest BA tends to have the highest BA with RISP.

 

And its no coincidence. :roll:

 

Except that's not true. A quick look at the NL central shows that only 2 out of 6 teams have the player with the highest batting average with the highest average with RISP (with a certain mininum of at bats to take pitchers and bench players out). I bet you could find that is probably true around the league. For example, Barrett is hitting .307 and Jones only .287 normally, but Jones is batting the best on the team with RISP-.288. Then comes Ramirez, Walker, Cedeno, and Neifi before you get to Barrett! Would you like to back up your statement?

 

Small Sample Size.

 

Take a look at most teams' overall OBP and their OBP with RISP and the two numbers are usually quite close.

 

If Jacque Jones or Neifi Perez or Matt Murton had 600 AB with RISP, their numbers would be pretty close to their overall numbers.

 

How close would you say is close? Within 5 percent? 10 percent? I just want to know to see what range would be an acceptable range for this data.

 

I'll let you know that I assembled the data. This year, 16 of the 30 teams have more than a 5% difference between their regular OBP and their OBP with RISP, so more than half have a significant difference between those two numbers.

When comparing regular OBP and OBP of RISP w/2 outs, the differences grow even wider. 19 teams have at least a 5 percent difference. 11 of those teams have a 10% difference. Listen to this though: only 8 teams out of 30 went down from their regular OBP to their OBP of RISP w/2 outs. IThe Cubs: 16.9% down, the widest range either way for any team. If you can't drive runners in during key situations, you don't win.

[da bears]

Alright one more now.

[soccer10k]

Nice pitch Z. One more and you're out of the inning.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

That's why Nevin and Walker can't play together. No way that ball is caught with those 2 out there.

[da bears]

Nice! And yet ANOTHER great start from Carlos Zambrano. Bravo.