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haha ankiel you douchebag.
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hey ludwick jump in front of a cement mixer later tonight.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-12-2009
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Whats Carpenters numbers now at Daytona? Also, when did Hernandez get back to Peoria? hernandez is still at boise... raisin misspoke. he did get the win, as boise's atrocious bullpen narrowly avoided blowing the lead. carpenter's numbers at daytona: 16 IP, 11 H, 4 ER, 5 BB, 21 K. on the season he's at 89.2 IP, 66 H, 24 ER, 38 BB, 81 K. he also has a nice GO/FO ratio... about 1.70 after today's game. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-12-2009
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
carpenter with a beastly outing... 6 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 8 K, 1 HR, 9 GO/1 FO. hopefully this is the start of him sharpening his command. -
i know you guys have been eagerly awaiting my top 10. 1. Josh Vitters 2. Jay Jax 3. Starlin Castro 4. Andrew Cashner 5. Chris Carpenter 6. Jeff Samardzija 7. H-J Lee 8. Dae Eun Rhee 9. Brett Jackson 10. Steve Clevenger I really like Carpenter, and I think that Rhee will come back strong from his TJ surgery (though the hiatus is a bit concerning). I think that Clevenger will be a pretty solid backup catcher - obviousy he doesn't have the ceiling that a lot of other guys do but I think he's a good bet to become a major leaguer for a few years.
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That .201 BABIP certainly isn't helping him too much. I'm not exactly sure how to figure out his numbers if his BABIP was close to or at .300 but I'd assume he'd be OPSing over .800 (he's at .727 right now) if he was getting a little luckier. .300 would be too high, he's hitting a lot of fly balls this year and not enough line drives, but .201 is pretty unlucky too. he also doesn't hit breaking pitches well.
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i don't know if you want a lousy fielder crouching for 9 innings and then taking the field for another 9.
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yes. mike piazza caught the ball but couldn't throw anybody out. fox probably can't throw out the ball and can't catch the ball either.
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ok mods lock it up.
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the phillies just scored 5 in the 9th to beat the pirates. the winning single was hit by... paul bako.
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soriano must have banged this dude's mom or something. i can't think of any other reason to hate a professional athlete with this much passion.
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what have they done since cleaning house to make you think they're a brutal front office? trading sanchez is the right move for them, if they can get some value. he's 31 years old, doesn't have much power and his stats are very BABIP-dependent because he doesn't walk a lot. plus he might be in line to make $8M next season.
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All Star Selection Special Noon- TBS
TruffleShuffle replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in General Baseball Talk
damn it, now every time you look up jason marquis on baseball-reference, it's going to have the "all-star" tag next to his name. that pisses me off. -
might want to move soriano or bradley in from the outfield when runners are on base, they can back up fox and retrieve his passed balls.
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wrong italian.
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yeah i have to agree with sulley here. before zook got there, illinois routinely got stomped on by the upper-echelon teams in the big ten. they could win non-conference games over bad teams and beat the dregs of the big ten, maybe win a game over a mid-tier big ten team, but teams like ohio st, michigan/penn st/wisconsin/iowa on their good years, those were basically automatic losses for illinois. from 2003-06 they won two big ten games. that's pathetic. zook at least has them to a point where they can big considered a middle-of-the-road big ten program and can pull off some upsets of ranked teams, and that's a hell of a lot better than i would've expected a few years ago.
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i'm kinda glad that lilly is the only all star. he's the only one who has overachieved while the rest of the roster has either gotten injured or simply [expletive] the bed.
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if ARam's shoulder is still real messed up and he can't hit, we're pretty boned, because that'll be two infield positions with bad production, plus all the other guys injured or unproductive. at this point i'm kinda just hoping that he has surgery in the offseason and doesn't have lingering long-term effects.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-10-2009
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
He's showing some pop against RH'ers with 5 of his 11 hits being XBHs. i'm more a fan of the sub-600 OPS and like 1.5 errors for every game he plays in the field. -
welcome and goodbye.
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blake hawksworth??? i remember he was a top prospect for the cards like 6 years ago.
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hopefully this doesn't make piniella/hendry think that baker is an adequate starting 2B.
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are we trying to catch up to the mets' injury tally? jeez.
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looks like brad thompson needs some more lessons at the "dave duncan school of how to succeed in the major leagues despite throwing complete junk"
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i wish ryan ludwick would go back to being an obscure scrub.