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  1. Rob
    He has to be expendable, Billy Butler cannot possibly step on a field. Ever. And people complain about Dunn's defense. I think he's still enough of an upgrade over Shealy that he needs to be playing first in interleague games... but that's about it.
  2. Rob
    Billy Butler could make Mike Sweeney expendable by the all-star break.
  3. Rob
    Stop abusing me with your logic.
  4. Rob
    Fox is not looking promising at his bid to stay behind the plate...
  5. Rob
    Does anybody know if we're gonna see Gordon today?
  6. Rob
    So, when does MLB institute a rule banning Billy Butler from playing in the field?
  7. Rob
    He's not tied up in the trunk of Stoney's car... :twisted:
  8. Rob
    He will. Was Kinkade's injury really that bad? Poor guy. :( I'm pretty positive I heard it break. Gooz hits 97. Damn. That's awful. It was. He was having a pretty good ST too.
  9. Rob
    He will. Was Kinkade's injury really that bad? Poor guy. :( I'm pretty positive I heard it break. Gooz hits 97.
  10. Rob
    No, I was thinking that too. Thirded. Fourthded
  11. Rob
    Guzman coming out of the gate and hitting 96.
  12. Rob
    Prior just doesn't have the stuff to go up top right now...
  13. Rob
    112
  14. Rob
    The junk the Royals got for Sisco is in to pinch run.
  15. Rob
    Esteban German is the king of spring training stolen bases. He had 11 last spring... and 7 during the season.
  16. Rob
    Prior's shaken up.
  17. Rob
    Based on the pitch where it showed 88 MPH and then 94 MPH right after indicates that the gun is pointed close to the batter (as it picked up either the bat speed or the ball after contact). That means we're working with a slow gun. Wrigley uses a fast gun, from what I've noticed. So basically, add 2-3 mph and that's what we'd be seeing from him if he were pitching in Wrigley at midseason. So Prior is really working more in the 87-90 range.
  18. Rob
    Same here. Beyond Price and Weiters, everybody has too much risk for me...
  19. Rob
    Cedeno has shown fine range. It's the routine plays he's struggled with more than anything, and that too can be rectified with regular playing time. Cedeno has shown more pop in his bat. I can't really define the managing style of Tracy in LA, but we know that Dusty preached aggressiveness, which in my opinion, stunted Cedeno's development at the plate. This may be the case with Izturis as well, but the only year he had more than 40 walks was when he was leading off for the Dodgers in 2004. I agree with you about Cedeno. Dusty/Clines really had him struggling. some of that might have been Ronny's work ethic and some of that might have been the coaching philosophy/coaching work ethic. Cedeno is a much better player than he was last season. I think he'd do well under Lou's staff, which seems to stress repetition and hard work. That's all Ronny needs to become consistent. Looking at Izturis's trends, he's improving fairly steadily in terms of plate discipline. http://www.fangraphs.com/graphs.aspx?playerid=656&position=3BSS&page=3&type=full http://www.fangraphs.com/graphs.aspx?playerid=656&position=3BSS&page=5&type=full That first graph showing BB% looks like the last three years have been a plateau. He may be cutting strikeouts, but that's pretty irrelevant.
  20. Rob
    Does the trainer count as part of the coaching staff? If not, I'm pretty happy with the early returns.
  21. Rob
    But the only people we have that can play 2nd right now are DeRosa, Izturis, Cedeno, Theriot, and EPatt. What if they get injured?
  22. Rob
    Thanks for doing it. I'd do it longer if the sleep deprivation weren't about to kill me on its own... but the midterms I had today fried my brain badly enough that trying to figure out who their randoms are is just beyond me at the moment. At any rate, I enjoyed it for a while. Hope it helped.
  23. Rob
    Alright, I'm not even gonna try to keep track of their random guys now. If somebody wants to do play-by-play, feel free. I'm done.
  24. Rob
    Kouzmanoff goes opposite field for a HR on an 0-2 count.
  25. Rob
    Marmol K's Adrian Gonzalez.
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