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[Guest]

40/40

 

They shouldn't have done it in alphabetical order.

[SouthSideRyan]

Uhhh yeah, that was easy. 40/40 with 4:33 left. Edited April 12, 2013 by SouthSideRyan

[Ding Dong Johnson]

40/40

 

They shouldn't have done it in alphabetical order.

I got momentarily hung up on Elston, Frank --> Johnson until I realized it was heading that way. It got super easy after that.

[SouthSideRyan]

I had no idea that was in alphabetical order. I feel like that would have slowed me down

[Banedon]

I got 30/40, and I'm confident some of you baseball nerds will top that.... :)

 

http://www.sporcle.com/games/hempick/mlb-baseball-before-and-after

You should be thoroughly embarrassed, Brandon. That was pretty easy. 40/40 with 3:19 to spare.

 

I'm brutal at baseball quizzes. Honestly, I probably would've done worse without figuring out it was in alphabetical order after my first pass.

[SABR Gamer]

Huge bitch move by Quentin. In cases like this where the player goes out to intentionally hurt the other player then they need to sit out until the hurt player is back. Full count in a one run game with zero outs. As if he's going to intentionally throw at you in that scenario. I hope Kershaw buries one in his ear.

 

Yeah, screw Quentin. Bull [expletive] move, hope he gets drilled.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

http://deadspin.com/brian-kenny-loses-his-[expletive]-on-hawk-harrelson-472678674

[Rob]

40/40

 

They shouldn't have done it in alphabetical order.

 

Yeah, that made it way too easy.

[Schwarber Fan]

Shouldn't surprise anyone, but Shelby Miller with 7 scoreless, 1 hit innings and 8 Ks tonight. :roll:

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Shouldn't surprise anyone, but Shelby Miller with 7 scoreless, 1 hit innings and 8 Ks tonight. :roll:

 

I see what you're doing, but Shelby Miller is supposed to be good. He's not Allen Craig or Matt Carpenter.

[Sammy Sofa]

Don't confuse him with logic.

[Guest]

Shouldn't surprise anyone, but Shelby Miller with 7 scoreless, 1 hit innings and 8 Ks tonight. :roll:

 

well he's really good sooo

[Guest]

some all-time stupidity from hawk, and brian kenny kills him

 

http://deadspin.com/brian-kenny-loses-his-[expletive]-on-hawk-harrelson-472678674

[Guest]

some all-time stupidity from hawk, and brian kenny kills him

 

http://deadspin.com/brian-kenny-loses-his-[expletive]-on-hawk-harrelson-472678674

 

Look a few posts up.

[Guest]

wow i even went back one page to make sure nobody posted it, and i still missed it.

 

but still, can we talk about how hawk said that sabermetrics "haven't worked" and got a lot of people fired over the last decade?

[Sammy Sofa]

[expletive] me, Hawk had a 5-WAR season?

[NonProfitCow]

Shouldn't surprise anyone, but Shelby Miller with 7 scoreless, 1 hit innings and 8 Ks tonight. :roll:

 

I see what you're doing, but Shelby Miller is supposed to be good. He's not Allen Craig or Matt Carpenter.

Craig had an .888 OPS over 2000 MiLB at bats. Carpenter had an OBP over .400 in his MiLB career and a 210/212 BB/K ratio.

[Guest]

They're also guys who were old for all their levels, and their MLB numbers have exceeded even what an MLE would spit out for that type of minor league career.

[Careless]

Fangraphs concludes It was certainly inside and off the plate, but most batters [other than Quentin] would not have been hit by that pitch.

and 4 HBP by pitches in the zone

[sneakypower]

(presumptive) future Cubs great Rick Porcello embarrassed former Cubs great Josh Donaldson a little bit

 

http://themajors.net/detroit/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/porcellocurve.gif

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Wasn't he supposed to be new and improved and strikeouty? He's struck out 3 of 52 batters he's faced.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

He's struck out 3 of 52 batters he's faced.

 

Jesus.

[Cubswin11]

Wasn't he supposed to be new and improved and strikeouty? He's struck out 3 of 52 batters he's faced.

He had a ton of K's in ST I know and they supposedly attributed it to a new pitch/approach. Clearly another example of ST stats being meaningless

[Post Count Padder]

I just noticed that Paul Maholm is 3-0 with zero earned runs and 20K in 20 IP to start the year.

 

Also, Joey Votto currently has a .289 average........and a .542 OBP. :shock:

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

34% walk rate, lol.