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Hardy flies out.
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Weeks strikes out swinging. That's 9 K's through 4 1/3 for Mock. Well, that and 2 HRs.
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Ronnie Belliard is the team leader in OPS at .809 on the year, the only player above .720.
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Zimmerman grounds out to end the inning.
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Pete "Five Dollar" Orr strikes out. Two down.
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Swinging bunt, runner forced at the plate. One out.
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I'll go with strikeout, double play, but let's see how it plays out. :)
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Baseball Tonight and franchise players discussion
bukie replied to Paladin Cecil's topic in General Baseball Talk
It seems to be a "When you think Cubs, who are the first three players that come to mind?" kind of list. So yeah, Banks, Sosa, Williams, Sandberg make sense. Santo if it were a Cub fan only poll. -
There's never a good time for injury, but Braun's injury couldn't have been better timed for the Brewers, playing the punchless Nats and Pads coming up. If there are any games that an offense can absorb the loss of a player like that, it's those kind of games.
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Here's a clip of the last leg of the race. The announcers go from already having conceded first to the French to practically Gus Johnson in a 20 second clip.
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I'd almost prefer a completely separate wing of "Players good enough statistically to be in the hall, but who did something really stupid to compromise the integrity of the game." Then put guys like Jackson, Rose, and the HGH squad in there so they can be remembered for both the good and the bad.
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How much of our success is attributed to improved Defense?
bukie replied to moorecg's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
And now I can see that. I'm not sure why I thought the Cards were in first. Right now they're actually 8th in the NL. -
How much of our success is attributed to improved Defense?
bukie replied to moorecg's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Is defensive efficiency calculated by fielding percentages? Just trying to figure out if maybe that has something to do with it... Fielding percentage is only a part of it. Another part of it is the percentage of balls that fielders get to that are hit towards them, or in their area, as well as balls they get to that are technically out of their zone (referred to as OOZ in metrics). Using fielding percentage as a comparative tool is a restrictive statistic because it assumes everyone has the same range. -
How much of our success is attributed to improved Defense?
bukie replied to moorecg's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Without checking (right now, I can only seem to access this site from work), I think the Cubs were #1 in defensive efficiency last year. This year, I believe the Cardinals are #1, and the Cubs are either #2 or #3. -
Even better than the French losing the relay was that Benard lost his world record, too, broken by that Australian on the first leg of the relay.
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Better than Pujols-Ludwick-Glaus.
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Actually, it might not be inconsistent, it might just be 3 inches high and 4 feet wide.
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It's completely inconsistent, which is the worst kind of bad.
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It's the incredible moving strike zone. It even moves within a single AB!
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I'd be surprised if Ramirez gets a pitch to hit here.
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Lee hasn't grounded into a double play in a while.
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Soriano watches strike 3, which was higher than ball 2 to Glaus last inning.
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Soriano hasn't homered in a while.
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Ball 2 looked like the textbook definition of a strike, though, so the end result was the same.
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Just for the record, I don't like the idea of Marmol walking anyone on purpose. He already has enough trouble with that on accident, and nobody really hits bloop singles off him anyway.
