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  1. TruffleShuffle
    agreed. good draft for pitching, good trades, and not many pitchers have taken steps backward or gotten hurt this year.
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    then a villanueva home run. lots of good pitching so far. corey black was very good and had no walks in 6 innings. daury torres is holding his own in his first kc start. neil ramirez has been rolling. hell, even casey coleman is pitching well, though nobody cares about that.
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    i predict the dodgers will sign him. gotta fill out that second starting rotation in case the first one gets hurt!
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    i timed it with a stopwatch and it looks like ryan got the ball to first base in about 5.5 to 5.7 seconds, with pierzynski touching first at about 5.8 to 5.95 seconds. that is [expletive] pathetic for a left handed batter. you're considered a 2 runner if it takes you 4.5 seconds to reach first base from the left side of the batter's box. taking nearly 6 seconds is off-the-charts bad.
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    juan paniagua [expletive] sucks.
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    vogelbach has 9 walks in his last 4 games. olt has 7 walks in his last 3. hendricks started off bad, with 4 straight singles allowed (2 were infield hits though), but finished really well. pitched 8 innings and only allowed 2 hits and a walk after the rough start. 2 earned runs total, both in the first inning. lots of ground ball outs.
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    dolis, sweeney and valbuena played well for the azl cubs in their rehab assignment. mark malave is having a reasonable year for an 18 year old at arizona, although he definitely needs to get stronger. 2-3 with a walk and 2 doubles tonight, but just .252/.366/.297/.663 coming into tonight's game. he got a big-ass bonus and didn't hit much last year in the DSL, so at least his performance this year is a step forward. rosscup wasn't as good as usual, although he was hurt by pathetic defense. chang-yong lim pitched a perfect inning and struck out two.
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    he got hit in the head and concussed while playing winter ball, and that may have led to some vision problems during the first part of this season. he was seeing floaters (like the weird things that float across your eyes, not turds in toilet bowls). he went to some vision specialists and they found that one of his tear ducts wasn't working properly. apparently using eye drops has helped to correct the problem. i'm not sure why he has been hitting poorly since being traded to the cubs, though.
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    He had four or five outings over 115 pitches. You can argue the correlation, but I'm not sure that's how I would have handled him. meh... he's a mature-bodied college pitcher, 24 years old, he threw 135 innings in 2011 followed by 169 last year and 178 this year. pushing him 5 or 10 pitches beyond what you're totally comfortable with isn't going to blow his arm out. seems to me the mets have handled him pretty responsibly; sometimes things just go (see stephen strasburg). clayton kershaw has been cranking out over 200 innings and throwing 110 pitches in basically half his starts since age 22, and he's the best pitcher in baseball. roger clemens' arm should have fallen off by 27 based on how hard the red sox rode him after he came up. obviously pitch counts matter, but there's a lot more which goes into the equation.
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    rilo kiley mcdaniel
  12. TruffleShuffle
    so it could have been "ryne sandberg, and his run-in with the law"
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    The whole time, I was hoping for a replay showing more of the flight of the ball. It never happened. :( http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=30076931&sid=milb http://img.pandawhale.com/post-1371-MOTHER-OF-GOD-gifs-meme-pC3V.gif
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    mitch williams used to manage a bowling alley/bar next to the place where i grew up swimming. i can confirm that he is as much of a mouth breather in real life as he is on television.
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    it was from an espn chat, but yeah, the same principle applies. instead of avoiding answering the question and making some snarky comment at the expense of the person who asked it, he could have (a) responded to what the person clearly wanted to know, or (b) ignored it and given a valid answer to another person in the chat. giving some stupid answer like the one dexter posted just wastes everyone's time. at least when joe morgan wouldn't answer a question in a joechat, it was because he was obtuse and weird. keith law is just being a dick.
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    Three more to go. for what? he's on 35 home runs (17 for daytona, 18 for tennessee). the smokies have 5 regular season games left and you'd expect baez to sit out at least one since they've qualified for the playoffs. would be cool if he could make it to 40 when you take into account playoffs.
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    tennessee won 6-0 and have qualified for the playoffs as the second-half divisional champ.
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    don't kill our buzz.
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    home run baez.
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    baez has an rbi single and a sac fly out to the warning track in left.
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    okay, so maybe you should use those. why not? you've already acknowledged that there are better stats to evaluate a pitcher. maybe you should look at those and say "yeah he's just been really unlucky this year" instead of ranting and raving based on a flawed stat that has poor predictive value.
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    well you definitely just wrote some words, i'll give you credit for that. unfortunately most of them were stupid. he has the lowest LOB% among all qualified MLB pitchers.
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    the early returns from tyler alamo have not been promising.
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    lol
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    blow cubs blow.
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