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  1. cheapseats
    Why is everyone acting as if this game is over? 7 runs will not win this game today. Dusty can still play for one run in each of the next 5 innings and, if successful, we'll head to extra innings. Relax!
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    I predict a 25-game winning streak now that Barrett has shown some FIRE! and INTENSITY! That's the kind of clubhouse leader this team needs.
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    I'd like to take this opportunity to mention that I predicted in the season predictions contest that the Cubs would win 74 games this year. I'm sittin' pretty. They have very little chance of winning that many. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/ps_odds.php Cubs are likely to win 71 or 72 games this year.
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    I believe it's Glendon that brings so much to the table.
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    No, sac bunting is wrong. Batting Neifi in the 2 hole is wrong. Letting Murton swing away is not wrong. It might not always work, because that's baseball. And a sac bunt might occasionally work, because that's baseball. But the odds are against you and it's absolutely foolish to keep sac bunting the way Dusty does. just curious. what is the percentage breakdown? how much of a better chance of a run is there, if you don't bunt? There's a great link for this that was posted in one of the game threads the other day....I hope someone has it...cuz I'm too lazy to find it. :P i remember someone posting it. Unfortunately, baker makes a sweeping generalization that sacrificing a runner over is good at all times. I think the same sweeping genearlization holds for those adamantly opposed to the bunt tho. Jmo but it's highly dependent on the situation. There is one situation in which bunting is almost always the best option: when there's a runner on 2nd with no outs and you need to score just one run. There's a 3-part study on BP by James Click that's worth reading. If you don't have a BP subscription, this free article at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette applies the Click research to the Pirates: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04146/321576.stm
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    I'd rather not see Glendon streak out of the pen.
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    Because if you haven't noticed we haven't been exactly scoring runs lately, so dusty has to try to get runs anyway you can. I have no problem with that play. They haven't been scoring runs partly because Dusty makes it harder to score by giving up runs. They've been pulling this crap throughout the whole slump, it's not going to make things different. Oh c'mon! You are blaming Dusty for the Cubs not scoring runs? I'm not the biggest Baker fan, but c'mon! We can't score runs because our guys can't get a hit when it counts. I blame Hendry for that. He should be signing guys who are clutch hitters.
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    1. Dusty Baker 2. Don Baylor 3. Buddy Bell
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    Three runs will win the game today.
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    They're playing the right way. That's smart ball.
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    Especially since Dusty doesn't keep track of pitch counts. Was it Baylor who said they didn't keep track? I think Dusty might keep track but he just doesn't care how high it goes. He just likes numbers. Maybe Dusty keeps track now, but I remember a quote from Dusty indicating that he just goes by whether the pitcher looks tired or not in a Trib article after a game in which Prior had pitched 130+ pitches.
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    Especially since Dusty doesn't keep track of pitch counts.
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    Not obvious enough...I missed it at first.... :oops: I had to close my office door b/c I was laughing so hard.
  14. cheapseats
    Two runs won't win this game today.
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    That's why we picked up Mabry. Lee-like defense at first.
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    They're just predicting the future.
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    good to see jp's power coming in. He'll start hitting the ball further when it warms up.
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    If Dusty keeps putting his best hitters at the bottom of the order, Pierre should have plenty of chances to knock in runs.
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    But power hitters like Mabry tend to strike out frequently. Adam Dunn strikes out a lot, too, but his walks and homeruns more than make up for the whiffs. I think you need to average a little better than one home run every 35 at bats during the course of your major league career to be considered a power hitter. So you're saying you don't consider Dunn a power hitter :?: uh, I'm pretty sure Dunn hits a homer in a shorter span than once in every 35 AB's. The only things they have in common is that they are left handed and that they play the OF/1B. Everything else is a pretty bad comparison between Mabry and Dunn. wait. if Mabry doesn't give us power off the bench or speed or particularly good defense, then why is he on the team?
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    RBI is a counting stat. Rate stats are more meaningful.
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    But power hitters like Mabry tend to strike out frequently. Adam Dunn strikes out a lot, too, but his walks and homeruns more than make up for the whiffs. I think you need to average a little better than one home run every 35 at bats during the course of your major league career to be considered a power hitter. So you're saying you don't consider Dunn a power hitter :?:
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    pulled a Griffey
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    But power hitters like Mabry tend to strike out frequently. Adam Dunn strikes out a lot, too, but his walks and homeruns more than make up for the whiffs. Team G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS 2006 CHC 24 41 3 9 0 0 1 3 1 10 0 0 .220 .238 .293 .531 Uber-Power Sample size. :roll:
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    Resting his groin.
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    He got hurt running the bases.
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