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Theriot has been caught stealing 6 times? That's 6 times he wasn't on base for Lee or Ramirez to drive him in. Granted, he could potentially get doubled up more often on a ground ball if he isn't in motion on the basepaths, but that's more on Lee or Ramirez to avoid hitting balls on the ground.

and what would that be? The one thing, I mean. :) Well, right now at least, that would be posting a .331/.406/.425. Which proves the one flaw to the ever important stat that OBP is. If you get caught stealing, you might as well have never been on base in the first place. Therefore, to accurately calculate OBP, caught stealing and caught attempting to take an extra base that you shouldn't have tried to take in the first place should be deducted from OBP. :wink:

Now that's what I call integrity.

Not a chance would I do that deal.

Volquez threw 118 pitches with a 9 run lead. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Count me in as liking Lou a lot when comparing him with some of our previous managers.

Woohoo! I love a 9:30am baseball game.

Yeah, theres no way anyone could catch up to his heater up in the zone, but even if it looks good coming out of his hand, if he doesn't have a whole lot else to through, guys will guess it and lay off. Tim and I had a long discussion about Scherzer before the start of the season, mainly because we're in the same fantasy league and we have minor leaguers and I have Scherzer. We both came to the agreement that without any decent secondary pitches, his ceiling is probably as a set up/closer.

His best out pitch last night was a high fastball, above the zone. He fooled a few guys into swinging at it.

There was a little bit of movement and he actually appeared to have pretty good command. Because the movement wasn't dramatic, it suggested to me that he needed to nibble the corners a bit more, which in turn ran up the pitch count. Well, that along with getting tagged quite regularly. Granted, that was the only time I've actually seen him pitch, so I'll have to wait and see what his fastball looks like against the Cubs later this week. His secondary pitches looked both weak and little used, suggesting to me that he isn't really all that confident in them, especially considering guys were sitting on the fastball.

What's the potential of a QB becoming available after cuts start getting made. A QB that could potentially be rated higher than any of the guys in this year's draft class. No, not Brian Griese. I'm on board with giving Rex one more shot, but I'd really like to see a more experienced back up QB to step in than Kyle Orton. In other words, who out there might be in jeopardy of losing their job and might fit the profile of a typical Bears QB? Anyone? If there are potential suitors in that aspect, I suppose I can live with the undrafted free agents the Bears picked up rather than to have wasted a draft pick on blah QB's.

I was at that game. I left San Diego at 7am the day of the game and drove 700 MPH all the way, stopping for gas 6 times. And you people are amazed by a 20 K performance? Unbelievable. :D

I visited this thread because I also have Scherzer on my fantasy team. I watched him pitch. He does have an amazing fastball, but that's about it. The more scouts get a read on him, teams are going to tee off on him if he doesn't start using his offspeed stuff more often. I'd say about 90 percent of his pitches last night were fastballs ranging between 93-98 MPH. Nearly every hitter in MLB is in MLB because of how well they hit fastballs in the minors and now in the majors. It's an uphill battle if that's all you're going to throw, Mr. Scherzer.

While I agree, ignoring posters is one feature mods do not have the ability to do. I'm just hoping that ONCE, Wrigley23 reads one of my responses to him. Because if he actually read one, maybe he'd finally see the light.

Yes, there are numbers that support Soriano for lead of argument. RUNS SCORED. Soriano scored 97 runs last year in only 135 games. Think about that for a minute. He was flailing away at pitches last year. He failed to work counts last year and he was whiffing with the best of them last year. He was on pace to score more than 110 runs batting lead off for the Cubs last year even though he was flailing and whiffing a lot. It's what he does when he does make contact that makes all the difference. I'll be the first to admit that it's very frustrating to watch him when he's struggling. But, he was also on pace to hit nearly 100 XBH's last year, which is what makes the guy valuable. I'd love it if he was more selective at the plate, struck out less and stopped swinging at bad pitches. If he did that, he probably would be the best hitter on the team and hitting 3rd or 4th would make the most sense for him. But, no matter how you attempt to spin that he isn't productive in the lead off spot, Soriano's past records indicate that he is very productive in the lead off spot, both in scoring runs and driving in runs. Theriot, on the other hand, played in more games than Soriano, hit at the top of the order nearly as often as Soriano, and only scored 80 runs and only drove in 45 runs. This is not the type of guy you want hitting at the top of the order. So far, he hasn't hurt the team too much hitting 1st or 2nd as much as he has. But, when he slumps, he'll be very detrimental to the most important stat in the game of baseball. CROSSING THE PLATE. I'm sure you get frustrated watching Soriano flail at everything. I do to. But, he's here and he'll be here for a long time, so we might as well get used to it. But, let's at least stop ignoring the production he brings once his bat starts making more contact.

That's funny because the legend of Ryan Theriot began when he played well in 2006 doing exactly that. The prosecution rests, your honor!

Hopefully. I don't doubt he'll come around, but he is very frustrating to watch right now. I certainly can't argue with that. But, at least he appears to be frustrated as well, and hopefully that leads to something good resulting from it.

What I find odd is that opposing pitchers are challenging Soriano with fastballs in the strike zone as if they know he isn't in full season swing yet. The damage Soriano can do to a fastball in the strike zone is still real. Hopefully, this starts happening sooner rather than later. Keep challenging him with good pitches, boys.

Looks like I'm catching Tim at the right time. Doesn't look like Lackey will pitch until next week. If he promotes Parra, he will still only have 6 starts this week. Meanwhile, I have 10 starts to choose the 7 I want. The only real scare is how many points Pujols will score playing 4 games IN Colorado and against 3 lefty starters. Yikes. What is Colorado doing with all of those lefties?

Congrats. You caught me having a bad week on the mound. To have minus 47 points combined from Brandon Webb, Johnny Cueto, James Shields and Randy Johnson stings quite a bit.

Haha. Gagne blows another save. That gives Fuzzy another chance to get 3 more at bats if they can get to the 11th inning.

Fuzzy makes up the 17 point difference and takes a 1 point lead, but Quakers more than likely has an at bat advantage the rest of the day.

Yeah, that's what I would expect to see as well. I might have missed it while I was out of town, but I don't think Nix got released. But, Nix is nothing more than a defensive minded 2b. The guy can't hit. With an unimpressive starting rotation right now, the Rockies need all the offense they can get.

17 point difference between the Quakers and my team in what was deemed the match up of the week. I have had quite the failure this week from my pitching staff, but the bats have been a lot better than past weeks. Neither of us have a pitching start remaining, so it could come down to who has the least amount of bats getting a Sunday afternoon off. I have quite the roster crunch working against me right now. All of my minor leaguers are getting promoted and it's high time for me to start promoting them as well. Mike Cameron, Brian Giles and Mike Mussina are guys who I won't have room on my roster for starting this new week. I want to get some of my youngsters in to compete against Tim's youngsters in our match up this coming week. If anyone has interest in any of these guys, I'd be interested in minor league help to replace the guys I'm going to promote (Ellsbury and Scherzer).

Looks to me like the Bears gave up their 6th rounder to get that 5th rounder.

Looks like we slid down 5 places and added a 5th rounder. I'd take that.