TruffleShuffle
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frickin cavs screwed me last night.
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5/21 Other Games
TruffleShuffle replied to fromthestretch's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
i'm watching phillies analysts on CSN dump on joe blanton for falling apart in the 5th inning - then they show the highlights and there's a bloop to right, a 30-hop single to left, a 97-hop grounder into left, a walk and a home run on a very bad pitch. give it a rest you morons, he could easily have had a 1-2-3 inning if the bloop is caught and the two bleeders were at fielders instead of being perfectly placed. -
ok check this out, it's pretty cool: 2003 - Cleveland Indians (pitcher's park) home: 296/399/455/854 away: 346/443/548/991 2004 - Los Angeles Dodgers (pitcher's park) home: 249/344/396/739 away: 282/376/447/823 2005 - Los Angeles Dodgers (pitcher's park) home: 264/328/471/799 away: 309/367/494/861 2006 - Oakland A's (pitcher's park) home: 243/344/396/740 away: 308/395/495/890 2007 - Oakland/San Diego (pitcher's parks) home: 306/371/559/930 away: 306/433/531/964 2008 - Texas Rangers (hitter's park) home: 358/466/679/1.145 away: 290/410/462/872 so, those road OPS's from 2003-08: 991 823 861 890 964 872 fairly consistent from year to year, right? So taking his home park out of the equation, he's probably a .850-.900 OPS guy, judging from those stats? Or are we going to keep up the terrible Jeromy Burnitz comparison?
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yes let's throw out the two seasons he actually played in a good hitter's park and instead focus on all those years he played in extreme pitcher's parks without acknowledging that fact.
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and you're saying that milton bradley, who has an .890 OPS the last 5 years, is one of those guys? the last time he had an OPS that low was 2004, and he was at the high end of that range, and was playing half his games in a pitcher's park (his road OPS was .823). wrong. his K-rate is about the same as mark teixeira or bobby abreu, do you think those guys were decent hitters for average? a guy like jack cust or adam dunn strikes out too much to hit for a high average; a guy who strikes out in 18% of his ABs can easily hit .275-.300. well, he gets on base a lot more than cuddyer, and his career EqA is 10 points higher than cuddyer, and that's just his career numbers - if you use his last 5 years, which are a lot more representative of how he's likely to perform the next 2-3 years than his career numbers, it's probably more like 25 points. so i'd say he's quite a bit better. and he gets hurt more.
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message boards posters and lou piniella.
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his numbers are weighed down by bad years early in his career. texas is a great hitter's park but oakland/l.a./s.d. play in the best pitcher's parks in the game. so he's unlikely to have an ops near 1.000 like he did with texas, but he's also unlikely to be at .823 like his career numbers. something around .850 to .900 is more likely, which might not make him an elite hitter, but certainly can be considered a middle of the lineup force, unless you don't consider a guy like mark teixeira to be a legitimate middle of the lineup hitter.
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benching miton bradley would be really stupid. even if he doesn't hit like he did with the rangers, you have to go back to the early 2000s for when he was not really making positive contributions with the bat. unless there is something wrong with him physically that is preventing him from hitting well, he's extremely likely to be at last a .280/.360/.450 guy in RF - and probably better than that. so yeah, benching bradley and soto is the answer if you're trying to sabotage your team.
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make it stop.
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i wouldn't mind seeing fox up and patton gone, just because i don't think patton is that good and i don't like carrying a rule 5 guy all season as a contending team unless he's got johan santana potential. fox could be useful as a PH, certainly more useful than patton's mop up role.
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BP did a mock draft:
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dude it's badnews, 99% of his posts are irrational and over-the-top negative.
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petition to change this poster's name to cubslose2009
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wow he almost made that.
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lebron james is good.
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wait what the hell cleveland?
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nice AB reed. i guess that's a fitting way to end the game since most of the other cubs took a crap in the batter's box tonight.
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i'd like jake fox. YEAH YOU HEARD ME.
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maybe he was taking a dump because he assumed the cubs wouldn't get anything going, and lou had to go get him off the crapper.
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does sutcliffe remember the 2006 cubs? you didn't need randy johnson and jake peavy to shut them out; miguel batista and david wells probably could have gotten the shutouts.
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Todd Jones FTW
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lou seems to be the only one who doesn't realize that fontenot has like 2 hits in may.
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another BP fastball turned into a lazy out. yes sutcliffe, the cardinals wanted to win this game more, that's why they will win it. he is awful.
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that beard looks ridiculous.
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nice grammar he's from wisconsin, what do you expect? :P