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  1. Rob
    There are probably plenty of women out there who would rather go home with Don Zimmer.
  2. Rob
    Gotta love Kosuke so far this season.
  3. Rob
    Son of a gun...
  4. Rob
    Quadruple posting Fred? Really?
  5. Rob
    I think you missed an important detail there, Fred. See, people do read your posts! :-P We're pretty sure you're a robot. You don't count.
  6. Rob
    Yeah I don't like him hitting 4th at all, but Lou has no choice but to play him. Not debating that he belongs in the lineup... what are our other options, Joey Gathright? (.263/.324/.307 vs righties for his career, for the record) But if you have to have him face a righty, it's inexcusable to have him batting this high in the lineup. I know Soto is struggling, but he should be in that 4 slot tonight.
  7. Rob
    Woo!!! Sori!!! On a side note, because Lou doesn't get it... Reed Johnson vs. RHP - .269/.327/.383 Reed Johnson vs. LHP - .312/.376/.459
  8. Rob
    He also forces the Cards to throw their bullpen out there for four innings each time he starts.
  9. Rob
    Yeah, Fox doesn't really have any business in the OF corners either... but then again, neither did Hoff, and that didn't stop Lou til he'd seen why for himself. If we do call Fox up, I wouldn't be too shocked to see him get one start in RF... maybe two if they didn't hit any balls at him the first game. But given our likely offensive struggles with Bradley, DLee, and Aramis riding the pine, Reed Johnson being forced into action against RHP, a dazed and confused Soriano, Soto struggling, little Mikey Fontenot adjusting to the steady diet of breakers he's been getting, and Aaron Miles being allowed to carry a bat... we need to bring up Fox to squeeze as much as we can out of a 1B platoon with Hoff. God bless Theriot and Fukudome right now.
  10. Rob
    Fox had a grand total of 4 games at 3B in the minors... unless there's a plethora of extended spring training games I'm missing here, he isn't really a backup there. He's not a backup catcher either, but he does get a bit of value added from the fact that he's a more than adequate emergency catcher... especially considering the current situation of our team, with our real backup catcher being our emergency 3B. Yes, he was old for the league last year... but he did absolutely rake at AA. And he has been ridiculously good at AAA this season. Hendry made a comment after his Iowa trip that Fox was doing a much better job hitting the breaking ball... which may be enough to turn him into more than a one dimensional slugger. All in all, given the way our roster is hurting right now, and the progress he's shown the last couple of years... we'd be remiss not to give him a bench slot when one of DLee, Aramis, or Bradley is DL'd in the very near future.
  11. Rob
    doesn't he have like one career home run? Seven, actually.
  12. Rob
    It took about 7 seconds for Theriot to get referred to as "scrappy."
  13. Rob
    In the case of an emergency situation in our infield, our best bet is to move Fukudome to 3B... not Soriano to 2B.
  14. Rob
    Yeah, color me shocked that there's no structural damage. The pop in the knee is absolutely a significant diagnostic criteria.
  15. Rob
    http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090423&content_id=4400106&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl No I'm aware that he injured himself, but nobody has said anything about an ACL yet. That's why I asked if he had heard something or if he was just speculating. The pop in the knee is generally associated with ACL tears. If it was locked it would be cartilage, slipping would likely be mcl.
  16. Rob
    I question the wisdom of some of you who believed you could handle watching a team over a 162 game season... the season is 8.6% over. Get up, stretch your legs, make some popcorn, and come back in July. If there's still a problem, you can start to hyper-analyze it then.
  17. Rob
    Colin Wyers was at the Peoria game and grabbed some video of Vitters and Flaherty, along with some notes. http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/will-it-play-in-peoria/
  18. Rob
    That bothers me too... 04 Sammy wasn't all that bad... he posted a slugging-heavy .849 OPS. He wasn't the Sammy of old, but he was hardly the problem with that team. The way the fans turned on him was absurd and uncalled for, especially given his years of service for the team.
  19. Rob
    3 for 6, sucker. Can't argue small sample size for that one.
  20. Rob
    The only way acquiring Gregg worked out was if he had a season good enough to make other teams sign him after we offer him arbitration. That's pretty much shot now... all he had to do was start well and finish well. No GM would remember if this had happened in July. As it stands now, yeah... I'd have been much, much happier to hold onto Ceda.
  21. Rob
    Wrong, Neal Cotts just sucks. He cant find the strike zone and his stuff is a shell of what it was in 05. He cant get lefties out and all he has done so far is walk the first batter just about every time he pitches. 5 walks and a hit batter in 3 innings pitched. Also lefties are batting .500 against him righties .286. I'd say hes been extremely lucky so far have an era thats not double didgits. I'm not wrong. All you've shown is that he's struggling right now. I didn't say otherwise. He's not this bad, he's just going through a rough patch. There's no need to get all bent of shape by anyone struggling three weeks into the season. What's a better indication of his talent level: The 1100+ batters he's faced in his career that show him to be a relatively average left-handed relief pitcher, or the 19 batters he's faced this year you're basing your assessment on? By no stretch of the imagination is he a great reliever, but he's a guy worth having around. Let's not be so fickle. Lefties are batting .500 against him!!! .500!!!
  22. Rob
    Actually, I liked the move... but I was counting on us being able to sneak him through waivers and iron out a trade for his rights around this time. It was certainly better than keeping Gaudin around.
  23. Rob
    Believe it or not, I'd actually had all this occur to me before. I'm just not smart enough to figure out the next step.
  24. Rob
    I actually recall hearing that John Dewan was working on adding a sort of hitters database into his fielding work... tracking velocities, vectors, etc... the next logical step would obviously just be slapping together a computer model with stadium dimensions and weather patterns... it could lead to some very interesting studies.
  25. Rob
    I love this thread... a classic badnews freakout at its best. But I can't believe nobody caught this at the time... OPS+ is OPS adjusted by league and (gasp!) park factors. Please dear god stop pretending to be a stats guy.
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