Jump to content
North Side Baseball

TruffleShuffle

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    50,942

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by TruffleShuffle

  1. TruffleShuffle
    strike 1 to aramis wasn't a strike by any measure, and certainly not by this guy's standards. he sucks. http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfx/szone.php?pitchSel=all&game=gid_2010_04_15_milmlb_chnmlb_1/&innings=yyyyyyyyy&s_type=&sp_type=1&h_size=700&v_size=500&extraStr=|4/15/2010|Milwaukee%20Brewers%20@%20Chicago%20Cubs five pitches called strikes outside the normalized strike zone, all for suppan.
  2. TruffleShuffle
    i feel like a pitcher making $18 million should be better than this.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    someone go kick this ump in the balls
  4. TruffleShuffle
    geovany slowto
  5. TruffleShuffle
    yeah that's complete horse [expletive].
  6. TruffleShuffle
    if suppan gets the same postage-stamp strike zone, we should really crush him today.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    I might go on a three state killing spree if he's promoted and proceeds to dominate for the Cardinals. if his performance in this game is any indication, you don't have anything to worry about.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    I believe they have an organizational focus on getting their pitchers to be able to go deeper into games. To my knowledge, they don't put too much emphasis on pitch count. Not sure I'd completely put this one entirely on Washington. yeah maybe that is the nolan ryan approach. still, i would think that when it's early in the season and you're dealing with a young kid who's making his second start of the year and hit the DL three times last season, you'd probably want to show some discretion.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    i'm pretty certain that it would be. for a while the most money that a team ate was $14.3M, when the tigers released damion easley.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    24 year old starter matt harrison just gave up a 3-run homer in the 8th inning to put the rangers behind the indians 3-2. granted the first two guys of the inning reached on errors, but is ron washington back on the nose candy? he'd thrown over 100 pitches coming into the inning (ended at 116) and you're leaving him in for that many pitches, in the 8th inning, to face the heart of the indians' lineup in april? great job.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    yeah, pretty crazy. what's really nice about a guy like cashner is that there's almost no doubt that he has a big-league arm. the biggest question is whether he can stay a starter or will have to shift to the pen. so it almost seems like the downside is that he turns into a really good closer or setup man, which is still a valuable commodity.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    reins, not reigns! and he misspelled might. by the way, the first entry was about madison bumgartner, who apparently is not hitting 90 with his fastball any more and has allowed 21 hits in 7 innings. yikes. another note from the article:
  13. TruffleShuffle
    iowa is facing former iowa phenom one-pitch rich hill... in his first outing for memphis he had the usual fun rich hill line, 6 ip, 3 h, 1 r, 6 bb, 5 k.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    oh well at least their minor league system and general manager are good. wait never mind, BA rated their farm as the worst in baseball, and ed wade is a moron. that team desperately needs to sell off their useful parts for prospects and rebuild; the should have done this last season. maybe this year they'll be so far out of it by the deadline that wade gets the hint.
  15. TruffleShuffle
    i'm still counting on j.r. towles to bust out
  16. TruffleShuffle
    agreed. his command still needs a little work, but by next season i think he can be a solid middle of the rotation starter.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    lol devils and penguins
  18. TruffleShuffle
    yeah it's not horrible but he had 68 K's in 68 IP last year. control has never been his problem; he only walked 19 in those 68 IP. it's not a horrible outing but like i said, i care more about the peripherals among the minor league guys, and his just weren't that good tonight. not a huge deal though. great outing for huseby tonight: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 4 R, 4 BB, 0 K, 1 HBP, 1 WP. i was hoping we were done with that chris huseby.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    He has to get used to at least that pitch count and he was stretched out that far (he only threw 8 pitches more than the previous outing). I don't see the problem although his line definitely doesn't look as pretty. when guys are in the minors i'm most concerned about K rates, BB rates and H/9 IP, and cashner's totals this year are tremendous on all accounts. his ERA may be 4.35 on the season, but that's not exactly indicative of how he's pitched: 10.1 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 1 HR, 2 BB, 20 K.
  20. TruffleShuffle
    lilly's final line: 4 ip, 1 h, 1 r, 1 bb, 4 k, 1 hr. no word on whether he spiked the glove after the home run. jackson appears to be piggybacking with lilly. so far he's at 3 ip, 2 h, 1 r, 0 bb, 2 k, 1 hr.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    i have to think that rusin was removed for injury in the first. he only gave up four singles; that's really not enough reason to pull a starter for "not having it" i don't have a problem with cashner staying in for the 7th. he had a no-hitter and everyone says his biggest question is whether he can go deep into ballgames - keeping him under 100 pitches is acceptable for this time of year. obviously it's a great sign that AA hitters are having so much trouble with his stuff, and his command seems really good so far as well. maybe he'll be a guy who can only go about 5-6 innings a start but will generally be very effective. Lord knows there are enough guys in a bullpen these days to carry a pitcher like that on your roster. brett jackson is 2-3 with a double and a walk... now an 8/4 BB/K ratio on the year. burke is 2-4 with a double. not a very good start for antigua tonight: 5 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 0 K, 10 GO/5 FO. hak-ju lee has a single, double and SB, so it looks like he's recovering from a lousy start.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    there goes the shutout
  23. TruffleShuffle
    now that theriot is into his arbitration years, he doesn't really have much value on the trade market. he's a pretty good OBP/AVG guy who is a mediocre fielder and is almost 30 years old. the padres will want a guy who will give them really good production at a cheap price, not decent production at $5m a year.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    it's not a coincidence that his worst "clutch" stats have come in seasons where he entered the game in higher-leverage situations. he's always been a good setup man and a poor closer. it's dusty's fault that he kept being used as a closer even though he had a track record of flopping in those situations. and it's the mediocre offense's fault that he kept facing one-run leads when he entered games. but as a fan, it's difficult to not get angry with a reliever who keeps blowing games.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    i agree with you for the most part, but there are some exceptions to the rule. take chone figgins, for example - he's been around long enough for pitchers to know that he doesn't have much power, yet he walked 101 times last year. how'd he do it? -swung the the 4th-fewest out-of-strike-zone pitches in mlb (14.9%) -swung at the 12th-fewest in-the-strike-zone pitches in mlb (57.7%) -swung at the 6th fewest pitches in mlb (36.4%) he sees about 4.25 pitches per PA on average which is a lot higher than you'd expect for someone with little power - usually that's what you see from the good-power guys. his stats also show that he's good at making contact, so i suspect that he's also adept at fouling balls off and keeping ABs going. this is definitely a skill. but for the most part, low-power guys who don't have a tremendous batting eye, patience and bat skills are going to lose a lot of their walks once MLB pitchers learn to come after them.
×
×
  • Create New...