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  1. CubinNY
    Hill wasn't completely skipped. They're just keeping Z on his usual 4-days rest at all times. Z Friday, Hill Saturday. I think this is a good thing. When Z has too much rest it seems as if he is not as effective. His sinker seems to flatten out and he doesn't have as good control.
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    FWIW, he was significantly better each of his first two years. 2005: .366/.470/.581/1.051 2006: .355/.480/.606/1.086 He's now up to .336/.467/.588/1.055 He also now has 31BB/21K. I think he was at 20/20 at one point, so he's starting to get hot. Callis said we'd take Wieters in a chat he did today. be still my beating heart No kidding. I saw him on CSS against Georgia the other day. The kid is a monster. I don't know about him sticking behind the plate but with his arm he could hold down a corner outfield spot.
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    Guys drop all the time becuase of signability issues. It's not like scouts didn't know about him. Wilken didn't find him bailing hay in Backass Nebraska. The Cubs gave him first round money and then some. I guess it all depends on one's defention of "steal". Anyway, let's wait until he has pitched a day in the majors to call him a steal.
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    Defensive? Carlos Beltran, Mike Cameron, to name two.
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    It works in the favor of the Cobs too, who are playing pretty pathetic baseball at the present time.
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    what makes middle relievers unreliable from year to year Lack of talent. Really I think it has a lot to do with discrete components. What I mean is that relivers work at most 1 or 2 innings per outing. Such a small performance sample is unduely influenced by luck, both bad and good. I don't think so. In terms of ERA it is, but for looking at the rate at which a pitcher gets people out. OBP against, stuff like that. I think it's more that there aren't a lot of consistently good middle relievers, and teams too often jump at the flash in the pan or the guy in his early to mid 30s who's right about to go downhill. I think you have a good point. If I were going to judge a reliever I would look at secondary stats like WHIP. I haven't given my "discrete component" theory much thought recently, but I think it is so hard to judge a reliever because we doen't yet have real good metrics. Anyway, giving a 38 year old reliever who was comming off of high IP totals the last two years is a receipe for disaster. I'm look at you Mike Remmlinger.
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    what makes middle relievers unreliable from year to year Lack of talent. Really I think it has a lot to do with discrete components. What I mean is that relivers work at most 1 or 2 innings per outing. Such a small performance sample is unduely influenced by luck, both bad and good.
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    It's hard to call an 8 million dollar investment a steal. Even if he pans out and makes it to the bigs as a starting pitcher it won't be a steal.
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    You shouldn't be surprized when a guy who doesn't get regular playing time struggles. You also shouldn't be surprized when a young player attempting to hang on in the bigs overcompensates and starts trying to hit his way into the starting line up. A platoon is never a good situation for a younger player. Once a guy gets labeled in baseball the label sticks. I'm sure Muton doesn't want to get the "platoon" player label. It will haunt him forever.
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    But that doesn't affect those stats. You can't give up 3 earned runs in the first and pretend to not share in the blame of a loss. Sure, but it wasn't a poor outing. No, it wasn't poor, it was terrible. So giving up 3 ER's is terrible? Sure. It's all subjective labels. But it's not 3 ERs it's 3 ERs in x innings. Anyway, he ptched well after he gave up the runs in the first and before he started walking people. Overall, not a good outing, IMO.
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    i wouldn't dare on ausmus Ausmus hasn't been a very good defensive catcher in a few years now. True but stealing in this situation is a bad idea.
  12. CubinNY
    Everytime I read one of your posts it's in Butters' voice. :D
  13. CubinNY
    He's a streaky hitter like Sosa, that's the problem with batting him high in the order. He doesn't walk much.
  14. CubinNY
    I mentioned this is int game thread yesterday, Barrett sets up late and hops around too much behind the plate. The pitcher is tryng to focus on amoving target. It is a habit he gets into sometimes.
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    Almost as bad as the Juan Pierre deal. Bad, real, real bad.
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    I'm well aware that Jones had a good year last year, at least against RHP. That's why we should have traded him in the off-season. I'm more than happy to put Murton's .350 OBP in the 2 hole against RHP or LHP. Please stop with the Murton man crushes! I like the guy too but goodness, he'll get his chance. It's not like has been killing the ball or getting on base any other way. It's game 8. No he won't get his chances. He's on the wrong end of 70/30 platoon until Lou starts to play him.
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    Jealousy is a terrible emotion. I bet if you polled the people as they walked into the gate welll over 90% would know who's playing today.
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    Then I formally request that someone set an exact number of games that have to be played before such concerns can be voiced. That's not the point. There are already threads on this message board dedicated to this topic...it doesn't need infiltrate every single game discussion as well. who are you? The arbiter of what should be in a game therad? Just ignore the comments and don't respond to them. That is the best way to make them go away. Personally, I bitched about it a lot during the winter and knew it was comming so it is no shock to me.
  19. CubinNY
    It'll be cold...wind blowing in...he should be fine...he'll save the truly bad games for August...when we're hopefully in contention and it can really hurt us. It's funny, most of my Yankee fan friends are saying the samething about A-Rod. They all still hate him. I have no idea why.
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    I don't know about baseball being a public transportation sport, I think that statement is nonsense. In addition, you can't park at a big lot around Yankee stadium either (the lot around the stadium is pretty damn samall). And both Shea and Phiadelphia are pretty easy to get in and out of as major highways are located by the ballpark. That said, the only reason to move a ballpark from the city to the country is becuase of diminishing attandence. The Cubs don't have that problem. I think they could *try* and play their home games at the cell for a year and build a new Wrigley right on the same spot, if they wanted to get a nice new park.
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    Barett has got to set up quicker. He falls into this habit from time to time. Lilly was in his windup before Barett set up behind the plate. The result, a hit batsman.
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    Woody freaking Williams I hate that guy
  23. CubinNY
    He and Dunn would have cured it a long time ago but they can't get their hands on any viable stem cells. In all seriousness, we shouldn't be too upset, it's been telegraphed all winter.
  24. CubinNY
    I thought they were going to make Marmol into a bullpen guy/closer? Guess not :shrug:
  25. CubinNY
    I'll do you one better. Derek Jeter's regular season career batting: .317/.388/.463/.851 Derek Jeter's postseason career batting:.314/.384/.479/.863 Those numbers would have been better, but he shared some of his clutch with ARod cuz he was tired of being so much more awesome than everyone who ever lived. That's pretty funny. I'm a Jeter fan, we were in Kalamazoo at the same time. I taught his sister Sharlee when he was a senior in HS, so I'm a little biased. Anyway, I think he's pretty damn good. I also think some people in the media make too much out of "Captian intangible" when what he's done is pretty tangible. But I cannot understand why he takes so much abuse on this site. He's a lock for the HOF based on his numbers alone. I don't think it's abuse, it's more mockery of ESPN's love for him. We all know how terrific Jeter is, but they make him out to seem like more than a mere mortal because he dove into the seats and made a nifty backhand toss to nail the sucky Giambi at the plate (yes, I know there's more). His postseason numbers aren't much different than his regular season stats, yet ESPN's coverage always makes it seem like he's always batting 900. I agree.
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