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  1. 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/
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    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.
  3. Rob
    3 for 6, sucker. Can't argue small sample size for that one.
  4. 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.
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    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!!!
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Rob
    Never had any problems. Be careful if you're picking the tickets up at their office though. If memory serves, if you don't show up to grab them before first pitch, they'll try to sell them to somebody else.
  11. Rob
    I don't think you need to worry about that.
  12. Rob
    I just need to point this out... Look at LaTroy's numbers as a Cub if you haven't recently. His numbers in year two are inflated by an aberration of a HR/FB rate that didn't get a chance to settle because of the small sample size. But still, he was damn good as a Cub. The one and only number you can actually be upset with him for is blown saves... and he signed on here with the expectation of being the setup man. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hawkila01-pitch.shtml Booing LaTroy Hawkins is stupid.
  13. Rob
    Thereabouts. I'd probably guess he'll rank around average this year, adjust, and be +5 next year... provided those numbers are correct. I don't have my new Fielding Bible yet.
  14. Rob
    Hawkins didn't pitch badly (or suck) for the Cubs... it's just that when he did fail, it was always at very inopportune times.
  15. Rob
    They have Fukudome about +13 in RF last year, and -13 in CF over about 15 games. That's *really* awful for 15 games. How would a +13 in RF translate to CF, on average? Not too good, I would assume, but you know how far that gets you. The -13 is prorated for a full season, sorry if that wasn't clear. It has him -2.5 over about 15 games, which is much worse than I originally said(not reading correctly today), but heavily based on last year(-2.2 to -0.3 in about the same time). As for translation, I imagine +13 in RF translates to at least several runs above average in CF, but I don't know the exactitudes. If memory serves, the approximate translation from CF to LF is 10 runs. RF would be a bit less than that.
  16. Rob
    Get rid of Gathright and bring up Fox. Gathright isn't getting any playing time because of Reed Johnson, and we need some RH power off the bench. Trade for Patton's rights. Send him down to the minors. Bring up Fox.
  17. Rob
    That may be the hardest hit ball you see from Harden this season.
  18. Rob
    Are you sure that's wise? I'm not drunk yet.
  19. Rob
    Why the hell would you send Ramirez? Lou is batty.
  20. Rob
    We have very, very little in the high minors. We'll be seeing Samardzija at some point... and Jake Fox has been tearing the cover off the ball, but Hoffpaiur has his bench slot unless he learns to play some 3B. Mitch Atkins and Randy Wells may or may not come up. Ascanio has been starting in the minors... so I have no idea what they have planned for him. Kevin Hart is sitting down there for whenever we need him... but all those guys are righties. If Cotts continues on like this, I'd imagine Gaub might get the call sooner than the lot of us expected.
  21. Rob
    Today would be a great day for DLee to stop trying to pull the outside pitch.
  22. Rob
    That's an interesting definition of darn good. The fact of the matter is that you just cant expect much from the average major league reliever. And I expect a good deal more out of Gregg...
  23. Rob
    we all knew our bullpen would suck before the season. should die hard nat fans not worry about their rotation after one week? I'm actually not that concerned about our pen. Marmol and Gregg are obviously darn good. I'm a huge Heilman fan. If Gooz keeps his arm intact, I have no doubt that his performance will be fine... hell, even Vizcaino aint half bad, provided he never faces a lefty. Patton is a gamble, and Cotts sucks. That's still a good deal better than most teams. I don't get how Gregg is obviously darn good. He's a fairly questionable bullpen arm. I suppose that's the danger of using subjective terms... Gregg has shown an ability to be quite effective at the major league level, though whether his ballpark helped him keep all those flyballs from being home runs is something we'll be figuring out quickly. Regardless, I have no issues with him having a spot on any major league roster at the moment... which to me is what defines him as darn good. His leverage, on the other hand... that's up for debate.
  24. Rob
    Yo momma so fat that after sex she smokes a turkey.
  25. Rob
    we all knew our bullpen would suck before the season. should die hard nat fans not worry about their rotation after one week? I'm actually not that concerned about our pen. Marmol and Gregg are obviously darn good. I'm a huge Heilman fan. If Gooz keeps his arm intact, I have no doubt that his performance will be fine... hell, even Vizcaino aint half bad, provided he never faces a lefty. Patton is a gamble, and Cotts sucks. That's still a good deal better than most teams.
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