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Szczur hit as many HR in fewer than 300 A-ball PA alone, as Revere hit in 1654 PA during his milb career so, no

and that makes sense the low total of sacks the OL gave up becomes more impressive when you take Drew Stanton's mental retardation into account whilst on the topic of pass blocking, PFF rated Omiyale and Webb 4th- and 1st-worst at their positions and Williams and Garza 8th- and 17th-worst (amongst all guards). Kreutz ranked 9th-best for centers, however

Football Outsiders ranks McNabb, Hill, Henne ahead of him last year. FO counts sacks as passes. Which obviously is a big hindrance for Jay, given the OL. Okay but Detroit's pass protection was worse (last in the league) and Washington's was only 5 spots ahead of the Bears. that's moronic and indisputably wrong i'd definitely buy our run blocking being amongst the worst, but pass pro was actually a relative strength from an offensive line standpoint

who's being racist?

That's a blockbuster. Interesting trade. i'm pretty thrilled about it. kolb wasn't going to play, so we basically got a second round pick and a CB who made the pro bowl in 2009 for nothing. I think it was an obviously great trade for Philly, but Vick isn't invincible... didnt he miss a good amount of time last year with a broken shoulder? Any other injuries? Now your backup is Vince Young, arguably much worse than Kolb. I guess what I'm saying is, saying that you got those things "for nothing" is not quite the truth. And now I sit back and hope that Vick goes down before playoffs and Young blows it in the NFC title game vs. the Cards. :wink: i'd argue VY is the perfect backup for Vick, in that now they won't have to adjust their offensive gameplan much even if he misses time

Yup. Was going to bring that up, too. He's not walking because he's swinging at a ton more crap. Maybe he's pressing to get a big contract, but the dude is swinging at more junk than ever before. "A ton" in this case = 0.7% more than last year. that's a bit of a dishonest way of framing it yes, he's swung at 28.2% of pitches outside the zone this year compared to 27.5% last year, which isn't a big deal until you realize his previous worst rate was just 22.9% (the year before) and that his career average is 20.8% PleasewinCubs' statement about Pujols swinging at more crap is very defensible, and makes his low BABIP look like less of a fluke; still, it's pretty rash to discount him altogether based solely on this His entire argument has been about Pujols being different this year, so unless he was ranting about him last year it's not super relevant. Yes, Pujols has swung at more out of the zone the last two years, but I'm not sure how that points towards a declining skillset(especially since he's getting better at making contact with those pitches). If anything, that would make me wonder if something external was driving that jump, be it hitting coach or run environment. Anyone know where to find those swing% numbers league-wide? i think the FG Show Averages link under plate discipline shows that (edit: looks like it does - it's the same for each player page) http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1177&position=1B#platediscipline if that's correct, league-wide O-Swing% has in fact increased the last two years, by a substantial margin: 30.1% and 29.3% after hovering right around 25% the previous four years hadn't really considered it, and i wonder what would cause that effect

Yup. Was going to bring that up, too. He's not walking because he's swinging at a ton more crap. Maybe he's pressing to get a big contract, but the dude is swinging at more junk than ever before. "A ton" in this case = 0.7% more than last year. that's a bit of a dishonest way of framing it yes, he's swung at 28.2% of pitches outside the zone this year compared to 27.5% last year, which isn't a big deal until you realize his previous worst rate was just 22.9% (the year before) and that his career average is 20.8% PleasewinCubs' statement about Pujols swinging at more crap is very defensible, and makes his low BABIP look like less of a fluke; still, it's pretty rash to discount him altogether based solely on this

re the Eagles, i don't think people appreciate how bad they're going to be at trying to stop the run. aside from Cole and Fokou, the whole defense is comprised of guys who are bad-to-awful in that area, including the two worst run defending CBs in football and they lost one of the best in the box safeties in the league and just traded away a premier run stopping DT they'll be impossible to throw against, but i really expect physical teams to dominate their defense for stretches

two Bears DL who are polar opposites in tackling prowess

Logan Watkins April - May: .196/.283/.270 .264 babip 22.89% k/pa June - July: .363/.427/.536 .440 babip 17.59% k/pa

At least the production and/or the weapons. I'd be willing to accept one or the other. But neither shouldn't be an option, and right now we have neither. The notion that they are going to utilize blocking tight ends with reqularity just means even fewer receivers in the pattern. Makes it even easier on the defense. Great pass rushes won't be stopped by a tight end chipping. Your blocking needs to come from your 5 linemen. I think they'll do the same thing they were doing in teh 2nd half of the season though, where they had Olsen and Manumaleuna blocking most of the time, rather than run routes. I think the argument is that if you're gonna do that, that Spaetz is probably the better guy for that than Olsen. arguable. http://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2011/06/16/2010-pass-blocking-efficiency-tight-ends/

i'm a little amazed we (a team that has to overpay FAs) got a productive 26-year old here for just $3.2M Wright, Houston, Durant and Tulloch is a great start to FA in my book - only disappointment is missing on J. Joseph

LOL. In that case I can't wait to see Spencer vs. Suh twice this year. AGREED. i am bummed Olin wasn't brought back though, he might have been the worst C in football

love it when Wood does that

i despise the reality that we don't even have anybody worth giving a look to at AA or AAA, so that playing Pena and Johnson isn't even the travesty it should be this has been a completely wasted season in every conceivable aspect of development for our organization (including Castro), and our talent throughout has considerably worsened

so much sex on that play

Yeah probably until this offseason or next years trade deadline please, do explain

if it makes you feel better, we just signed a guy fresh off an addiction to video games

more like Sam Turd

Rivals' Team Recruiting Rankings looks good to me!

and the Blue Jays had received Stewart from the Reds in exchange for Rolen, another player TLR had run out of town

Edwin Jackson >>>>> Trevor Miller Cards win this one

He always gets his man!! Mrs. Peacock was a man?? Daniel Hudson for Zach Stewart and a meaningless season's-worth of Edwin Jackson - pretty brutal

the Jays may have a guy the Cards covet a lot more (Thames?) than anything the Sox can offer

if those goes through, Edwin Jackson will have been traded for Colby Rasmus, Zach Stewart, Daniel Hudson, Matt Joyce, Max Scherzer, and (all-star) Danys Baez