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  1. Rob
    Oh Izzy, how I've missed you.
  2. Rob
    Has he really been hit that hard? I'm not watching the game but anyone who allows Nyjer Morgan to go 2-2 and for Izzy to hit a double can't be pitching well. Monroe dove at and dropped the Izzy double... Jacque or Pie would have caught it in the air.
  3. Rob
    He's thrown out 3 of 9 attempted basestealers, compared to Kendall's 5 of 55. Soto profiled as a catch-and-throw backup before his big season this year. I don't know why people get surprised he can play good defense. Edit: Soto is 3 for 11 actually. Whoops.
  4. Rob
    Soto!
  5. Rob
    Pie and Jacque are horrible against LHP. Lou made the right call. Now that we're up early, though, I would have liked to see Pie get in. His defense is light-years better, and he could use the ABs vs. southpaws.
  6. Rob
    Well of course Izturis is gonna hit a double. He has to knock that out sometime before he finishes hitting for the cycle today.
  7. Rob
    To be fair, I seem to remember him ranking as the most accurate according to QuesTec and all the players routinely rant and rave about how consistent his zone is. I'm talking about his stupid delay in signaling if the pitch was a strike or not Oh yeah. That was annoying.
  8. Rob
    To be fair, I seem to remember him ranking as the most accurate according to QuesTec and all the players routinely rant and rave about how consistent his zone is.
  9. Rob
    Only 31 pitches the first time through the order. We could be in trouble today. :lol:
  10. Rob
    I hate having the last post on a page in the game threads.
  11. Rob
    Before Soriano's leadoff homer today, this was his stat line on the first pitch. .493/.507/.887 I now give him permission to swing at the first pitch.
  12. Rob
    I worry that they might be too anxious and lose the little patience they have. Soriano's P/PA so far this game sucks. I know, second game in a row he helps the pitcher out by jumping all over the first pitch. He's really pissing me off with that crap. I still like when he shut me up a week or two ago when the guy in front of him got walked and I made a comment about how he needed to take a pitch or two. He promptly swung at the first pitch and hit a 3-run HR. He did something similar to me earlier in the year too.
  13. Rob
    I worry that they might be too anxious and lose the little patience they have. Soriano's P/PA so far this game sucks.
  14. Rob
    Tie game.
  15. Rob
    Wow... Lou is intentionally walking somebody to get to Nady in the first inning. And it loaded the bases... while the wind is blowing out. Does Lou realize that we're already holding the division lead? Our only job is to not lose it, which means we need to stop taking unneeded risks.
  16. Rob
    If I had wheels I'd have been a bus. If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.
  17. Rob
    I'd be happier if they had a three-man rotation with tandem starters and just a few relievers, to give us more position players off the bench.
  18. Rob
    ESPN is just showing ESPN News instead of the game... It's like I'm blacked out, but I'm not on a satellite system, and I'm not anywhere near close enough to Chicago to get WCIU. Something better be fixed.
  19. Rob
    That's assuming Hendry isn't stupid enough to non-tender him.
  20. Rob
    I'd have to assume that moving Marmol to the rotation would free us up to trade Marshall for an upgrade elsewhere. SS and RF seem most likely. Tejada, Marmol (SP), and Wuertz in a setup role, or Theriot, Marshall, and Marmol (RP). Obviously it would cost more than Marshall to get Tejada, but if we aren't giving up too much else, it seems very obvious which option is better for us.
  21. Rob
    It most certainly was in 2002. Pretty much the exact same situation Z never had a year like Marmol did out of the pen this year. I believe they feel comfortable with their 5 starters this year, I can't say the same thing about '02's staff. Zambrano doesn't have the same pure stuff as Marmol and they're different style pitchers. I think Marmol will maximize his effectiveness as a properly used reliever compared to a starter. Wainwright last year was more effective as a reliever than a starter this year, I expect similar declines in Marmol (although, Marmol has better stuff than Wainwright as well) as a starter to the point where the difference between him and Marshall isn't worth the loss of him as a properly used reliever. Effectiveness aside, Wainright has been good enough in a far larger number of innings, which allows his overall value to be much, much higher. Nobody thinks that Marmol will post a sub 2 era as a starter... but he only needs to be a bit above league average to be more useful considering the bump in innings.
  22. Rob
    He has less of an injury history than Marshall, and you don't see anybody supporting Marshall going to the pen.
  23. Rob
    Dempster's actually faced tougher batters (by .004 points of OPS)
  24. Rob
    Actually, I will conceed that if it hurts one of the opposing players with great range and forces him out of the game, the double would possibly be better than the dinger... It'd have to be the sort of injury that forces Daryle Ward to play center or something though.
  25. Rob
    There's no way Marmol shouldn't be starting next year.
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