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  1. TruffleShuffle
    in some ways i'm almost happy that he's taking close pitches like that, rather than swinging out of his shoes at anything that he can reach. shows growth as a hitter.
  2. TruffleShuffle
    well iowa's 9th inning was a bummer. baez, bryant and soler up to bat with the i-cubs down 7-5. baez struck out after going ahead 3-0, bryant struck out, and soler flied out.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    soler 2-run double.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    not sure if i'm more excited that baez has homered twice or walked twice in this game.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    If only we had someone at AAA to bring up in case Starlin needs some down time... you're thinking of logan watkins, aren't you?
  6. TruffleShuffle
    baez baez baez baez baez
  7. TruffleShuffle
    You don't remember Theo having dinner with Zambrano and then promptly trading him away? I'm just saying, they will have a short leash on the guy if he mopes around complaining to media. most teams have a short leash on players who mope around complaining to the media. and why are you assuming that castro will do this?
  8. TruffleShuffle
    All the minor leagues have to wear the giant helmets. I don't know if anyone in MLB still wears them, but I remember David Wright wearing one after he got beaned in the head. http://sportsangle.truthbegins.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/spaceballssplit_thumb.jpg
  9. TruffleShuffle
    starlin castro is a stubborn hothead?
  10. TruffleShuffle
    Wasn't he on a lot of [expletive] teams that didn't win many games? I mean, wins back then obviously meant you were a really good pitcher. that's true, but he also issued an absurd number of walks throughout much of his career. i don't think anybody really paid much attention to pitch counts back then, but the number of pitches he threw in some seasons must have been outrageous. in 1974 he started 41 games, threw 26 complete games and issued 202 walks. he faced 1392 batters that season, and 569 of those at bats ended in a walk or a strikeout, so you could assume that he had a lot of high-pitch plate appearances against. a rough guess of 4.2 pitches per batter faced would put ryan at about 6000 pitches thrown, which is about 2000 more pitches than anybody throws in a season these days. 150 pitch outings probably would have been pretty common for him.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    one of jack morris' top 5 cy young award years, he had an ERA over 4 and an ERA+ of 101. but he won 21 games!!!
  12. TruffleShuffle
    soler pinch hit as the tying run in the 8th inning, but flied out to the track in left. :x
  13. TruffleShuffle
    a former top 10 draft pick hit a home run for iowa!!! unfortunately it was josh vitters. but baez did walk, and bryant has a walk and a single.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    no soler for iowa :x
  15. TruffleShuffle
    skulina pitched like crap (3 walks, 2 wp, 1 hbp in 1 inning). daytona is getting smashed 10-0 and have no hits through 5 innings.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    that's a pretty poor analysis though. jaxon's line drive rate is the highest in baseball among qualified pitchers (25.6%) while beckett's is 18.1%. plus jackson's LOB% is fairly low over the course of his career; he may just be lousy pitching from the stretch. jaxon has been unlucky this year, but fastball velocity and location have regressed, and he's being battered accordingly.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    i am totally ready for the return of bandWGNs. count me in on this one, as long as what i'm bandWGN'ing onto is him being a good back-of-the-rotation pitcher at a low price for a few years.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    bryant needs 14 home runs in his last 29 games to reach 50 for the season. i'm trying to think of the last time i was as confident about a prospect's future success (assuming health, of course) as i am with bryant. has to be prior, probably.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    bryant home run.
  20. TruffleShuffle
    http://nesn.com/2014/08/phil-hughes-tries-to-catch-invisible-liner-on-double-to-left-center-gif/
  21. TruffleShuffle
    i hand timed it three times and got right around 5.10 each time. that is really [expletive] slow. a 20 runner is like 4.6 from the right side. most baseball players could [expletive] themselves coming out of the batter's box and still post a faster time running with a load in their pants.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    more duke silver, less back2banks please.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    bryant and baez have both been hit by pitch in this game. if they hit soler, send eli whiteside out there to kill someone.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    the moment we have all been waiting for. the chris valaika era begins for the chicago cubs.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    lol what on earth
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