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pretty stupid comment dontcha think? Rusch pitched in AA last year?
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Who did we trade for him? Koronka doh. that's right. I really don't care. Koronka's not going to be good anywhere. Then again, we could have gotten someone better than bynum for him. I agree. He could have been packaged with some other arms. Just because we don't need 10 SP doesn't mean we should just give them away.
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Who did we trade for him? Koronka Hendry fleeces another team. One day we'll speak of the Bynum trade in hushed tones the same way we do Aramis for Hill or Lee for Choi.
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But Bynum is helping us win THIS YEAR. oh wait.
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60 cases?! :shock:
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He's probably tired now. Watch the Cubs try hit balls to the gaps to see if he's too fatigued to run them down.
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Francis Beltran?
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On the positive side, had there not been two outs, Murton would have moved the runner over.
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It is overrated, so at least they know what they are talking about. I miss Gracie and Thommy. You're right. As they just pointed out, OPS doesn't tell you if a guy can catch the ball. :roll: Thom and Gracie aren't Joe Morgan/Chip Caray bad, but they border on insufferable.
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I bet a lot of casual viewers don't know what it is. They're downplaying it. No surprise considering how low Gracie's OPS was.
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Dbacks announce team is explaining OPS to the viewers. Thanks, guys.
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How many pitches does Ronny see this AB? I call three.
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Well just like we've been discussing the last few days. Those LOB numbers had to go up sometime It's not that we need a bat. We need hitters who are clutch. :P
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But the wind was blowing in.
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sample size. :x
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Why the negativity about Neifi? It's just the fifth week of the season. He could save us. :roll:
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LOL really
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Nice to see Murt hitting in the 5 spot again. More atbats for one of our better hitters can't be a bad thing.
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Sure, relievers get hurt. No one is saying that only starting pitchers get injured. But correlation is not causation. If the relievers you mentioned were hurt solely because they were used too frequently, then why do starters ever get injured? They have at least four days off in between outings, after all, so they should never get hurt by your logic.
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Baker and Bowden. Imagine the possibilities.
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Yes. Starters and relievers are two different animals. Relieving is easier on a pitcher's arm than starting. That's why Smoltz became a closer for a while. That's why Wood was in the bullpen last year. There is NO EVIDENCE that throwing a small number of pitches every other day can injure a pitcher. There is, however, quite a bit of evidence that throwing too many pitches per outing can hurt a pitcher.
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No, you're missing the point. Right now is the worst case scenario. If what has happened over the last 5 days were to continue to happen for the rest of the season, there's no reason anyone in a 7-man bullpen should be overworked. For some reason, you think Angel Guzman should be fine throwing 105 pitches every five days, but you worry that if Dempster had to throw 29 pitches every five days. Not a single reliever has thrown more than 90 pitches in the past five days, but you say that the bullpen will get burned out at this rate. Yet you say pitchers shouldn't start unless they can throw 100 pitches. Your position makes no sense in light of the fact that research shows it's easier on a pitcher to throw fewer pitches with more frequent appearances than it is to throw more pitches with longer periods of rest.
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Although Dusty has overworked his starters in the past, 2003 being the most famous example, the point was more about the bullpen than the starters. Our bullpen is far from overworked. In fact, some guys are going so long between appearances that they're not sharp. It's nearly impossible to overwork a 7 man bullpen. You could overwork 1 or 2 guys by continually going to them in every situation, but the pen itself isn't going to get overworked with so many bodies. That's not true! If your starters are averaging only 5 innings a start you will overwork a bullpen. Out of a 7 man bullpen only 2-3 of those get consistent work. Over the last 5 games, our starters averaged LESS than 5 innings a game. Which of our relievers were overworked during that time?
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Although Dusty has overworked his starters in the past, 2003 being the most famous example, the point was more about the bullpen than the starters. Our bullpen is far from overworked. In fact, some guys are going so long between appearances that they're not sharp. It's nearly impossible to overwork a 7 man bullpen. You could overwork 1 or 2 guys by continually going to them in every situation, but the pen itself isn't going to get overworked with so many bodies. Exactly. Yet we hear baseball announcers (in general, not specifically Len and Bob) worry more about overworked bullpens than overworked starters. Did Dusty use Wuertz too much in the first half of 2005? Probably, but it's not because he had no choice.
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Although Dusty has overworked his starters in the past, 2003 being the most famous example, the point was more about the bullpen than the starters. Our bullpen is far from overworked. In fact, some guys are going so long between appearances that they're not sharp.