MeatampPotatoesMan
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How is Hendry going to go out and get Giles after failing to attract Furcal? By the time Furcal falls through (after wasting a ton of our time playing around looking for another year or few million per season) Giles won't even be interested in us. We won't have been serious bidders in the Giles sweepstakes and jumping in at the last minute means severely overpaying to beat out the competition (and he's going to be overpriced anyways at that point). Hendry won't do that. The problem with going after Furcal as our top priority is that he probably won't sign quickly. Agents love to milk every dollar out of the situation and that means taking their time. Starting your middle infield transactions off with a FA signing is a bad way to go. It backs everything up to the last minute. In this market, that's going to leave us with scraps to choose from or end up with a MI of Cedeno, Walker, and Neifi. That would be fine if we had a decent outfield, which we don't.
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That's like saying the Cubs payroll was 87M instead of 100M in '05 b/c of Sosa's contract and then saying that if the 2006 payroll was 90M, it would be an increase in payroll. :?
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they make the Trib. look good. :shock:
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i feel for dodger fans. they cut payroll on an inefficient team and get rid of DePo. not smart.
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Talked to Sarge today
MeatampPotatoesMan replied to Neuby's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
i'm glad we brought back the entire coaching staff. \:D/ -
I would disagree. Considering Hill's lack of ability to consistantly throw his curve for a strike when he is behind in the count, his lack of a third pitch puts him at a great disadvantage against major league hitters. If he gets behind in the count, a good hitter can sit back on the fastball or look for the walk. His curve isn't quite as consistant as, say, KRod, to where he can rely on it when he's down 3-1 in the count. That's why he needs a third pitch, and a change would be more than adequate to keep hitters from sitting back to much when they're ahead in the count. What are you disagreeing with? His K/9 has been consistently high ever since he entered the organization. All I said was that up to the big league level (i used the past tense "has") his two pitch repertoire has been enough to get him by. I never said he'd get away with it at the major league level. I do completely agree with what you posted other than that though. :D
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for *&%$'s sake Wade!
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hunting season, i guess.
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\:D/
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the offense's inability to eat time is going to catch up to us later in the season.
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nice job ORTON!!! yeah baby! whoooo!! [/sarcasm]
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you mean when he didn't rough the passer? :twisted:
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ok, defense. nap time is over.
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Talked to Sarge today
MeatampPotatoesMan replied to Neuby's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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Vasher!!! way to make up for the offsides call! WHOOOOHOOOO
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Wade needs an arse chewing come halftime.
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we have 3 timeouts with slightly over 2 minutes left. he basically just took a timeout. not bad considering the time his D has spent on the field.
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hopefully he doesn't get into an argument with an infant.
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wade, you suck.
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awesome. there goes what little offense this team has. we're a running team with no running backs (no offense Peterson).
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Nedney hasn't missed a FG less than 30 yards in 9 years i've heard. the wind is ridiculous. he still made it.
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vasher, wtf?!!
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Julio Lugo and Jose Guillen are two players off the top of my head that were perceived crazy clubhouse cancers(Lugo had a similar incident as Bradley, Guillen got the same treatment from the Angels that T.O is getting). Now you don't hear anything about them being a disruption. In fact, there was nothing but rave reports about Guillen being a good guy from his Nationals teammates. read the link he posted. choking your pregnant wife doesn't fall into the "clubhouse cancer" category. :shock:
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what? you're not changing arm speed or delivery from your fastball if you're doing it right. it's the resistance the ball sees that slows the ball down, not arm speed. the forces on the arm should be the same. 12 year olds learn this pitch. it should be the second pitch you learn (after the fastball). How many pitchers in MLB have a really effective changeup? It is an easy pitch to learn to throw. It is hard to learn to be deceptive enough with it to be effective. my guess is hill knows how to throw the changeup. how can you get to that level and not? it's either not very good or he doesn't believe in using it for whatever reason. His fastball/curveball repertoire has certainly been good enough to dominate (his K/9 has always been ridiculous). it's his command of the curveball that's hampered his progress. we need to do a Q&A with Rich Hill. I gots me some questions. :lol: I thought it was always his command with his fastball that gave him trouble? if that's true, then it would explain the lack of changeup. you need a good fastball to throw the changeup (it's pretty worthless otherwise).
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what? you're not changing arm speed or delivery from your fastball if you're doing it right. it's the resistance the ball sees that slows the ball down, not arm speed. the forces on the arm should be the same. 12 year olds learn this pitch. it should be the second pitch you learn (after the fastball). How many pitchers in MLB have a really effective changeup? It is an easy pitch to learn to throw. It is hard to learn to be deceptive enough with it to be effective. effective? more than a few. it's not supposed to be a strike out pitch. you throw changeups on counts where the hitter is looking for a fastball (3-1, 2-1, 2-0, 1-0). it's there to keep hitters honest on the fastball. plenty of pitchers (just about all quality starters) have "average" changeups and that's all you need. my guess is hill knows how to throw the changeup. how can you get to that level and not? it's either not very good or he doesn't believe in using it for whatever reason. His fastball/curveball repertoire has certainly been good enough to dominate (his K/9 has always been ridiculous), so why would he use the changeup? it's his command of the curveball that's hampered his progress, not the lack of another pitch. we need to do a Q&A with Rich Hill. I gots me some questions. :lol: