All Star Selection Special Noon- TBS

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haha greg amsinger on MLBN just questioned joe maddon on picking pena because of his batting average and maddon basically punked him out saying you can't just a player by his batting average and told him pena's OPS and other stats.

 

Get your head out of the spreadsheets Joe.

 

Just out of curiosity what were those "other" stats that were so impressive? Was one of them the "he plays for my team" stat? Because I think you have a hard time justifying the Pena selection other than with one of the oldest counting stats around, HR's. If we are going by OPS then Branyan, Dye, and Cabrera are all ahead of him and and doing better in almost all areas excepts HR's. Better for him just to admit it was a homer pick and not act like he made some great statistical anaylsis.

 

it was a homer pick, but it was still funny to see that cardinal homer amsinger finally have somebody tell him that batting average isnt that important

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A little bummed here, but Halladay is starting tomorrow's game over Greinke.

 

it should have been greinke and haren. haren has been by far the best pitcher in baseball this season but he seemingly gets very little credit.

 

his stats-

 

130 IP

89 hits

16 bb

129 k

.81 WHIP

2.01 era

 

that's ridiculous

[Terp]

Longoria out.

[laurens]

A little bummed here, but Halladay is starting tomorrow's game over Greinke.

 

it should have been greinke and haren. haren has been by far the best pitcher in baseball this season but he seemingly gets very little credit.

 

his stats-

 

130 IP

89 hits

16 bb

129 k

.81 WHIP

2.01 era

 

that's ridiculous

 

But.. but he only won 9 games and lost 5! That means he's not very good!

 

Seriously though, how the hell did he manage to lose 5 games already? Is the Dbacks offense really THAT bad?

[SouthSideRyan]

Longoria out.

 

Figgins in.

[Guest]

A little bummed here, but Halladay is starting tomorrow's game over Greinke.

 

it should have been greinke and haren. haren has been by far the best pitcher in baseball this season but he seemingly gets very little credit.

 

his stats-

 

130 IP

89 hits

16 bb

129 k

.81 WHIP

2.01 era

 

that's ridiculous

 

But.. but he only won 9 games and lost 5! That means he's not very good!

 

Seriously though, how the hell did he manage to lose 5 games already? Is the Dbacks offense really THAT bad?

 

It's not that the offense is that bad, just that it's been nonexistent in his losses - they scored one run in three of the games and were blanked in the other two. Meanwhile, he gave up a total of nine runs (all earned) in those five losses.

 

He did get bailed out in a game against the A's where he gave up five runs and the DBacks came back but there were two other games where he allowed one run in seven innings but his team gave up four in the eighth (Dodgers) and five in the ninth (Padres) that cost him wins as well.

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[Transmogrified Tiger]

If I ever met that guy, I'd have a hard time not punching him in the throat.