Yep, Wuertz and Lieber aren't at all at fault. :roll: Wuertz didn't really do anything wrong. He came in and got a couple ground balls... it's not his fault they weren't hit at anybody.
Marmol's the 8th inning guy. If that's really Lou's reason, he needs to be taken out behind the barn and shot. This was a huge situation. We should have been bringing in our best reliever.
If the season ended right now, who would you give it to? Do you give it to the BA and OBP guy or the HR and RBI guy? I'd give it to Fukudome Soto is batting .328 with an OBP over .400... and he's not the BA and OBP guy you're referring to. Awesome.
Oh wow, that's crazy. The crazy thing is that we've drawn 91 walks in 20 games. That's 4.55 walks per game... which puts us on pace for 737 walks this season. (Philadelphia led the NL last year with 641)
I really liked seeing Cedeno hold onto the ball a couple of times today. It seems like he's trying to cut back on the mental mistakes... he woulda let those balls sail over DLee's head before.
I just dropped Hank Blalock and picked up Ronny Cedeno on my fantasy team. (I have Ryan Braun, Evan Longoria, Mark Reynolds, Alfonso Soriano, and Carl Crawford to split between my 3B, LF, and UTIL spots... so dropping Blalock becomes less insane)
Do you think Len and Bob will put it together that we're doing all this late damage because we're actually making it into the other teams bullpens now?
I also predict that Dusty will pick a reliever, abuse his arm mercilessly, and then demote him into a mop-up role due to ineffectiveness partially caused by pitching 12 times in 15 days. He will then repeat this cycle with a new reliever.