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ISO - 226, 193, 224, 237, 226, 327 Injury 189 last year 152 this year The power was down some last year its down more this year. His FB% is little bit low but the biggest dip is in his HR/FB which is at 6.2%. To put that in perspective he's hitting HR's the same percentage of the time he gets the ball in the air as players like Tadahito Iguchi, Mark Ellis, Julio Lugo, Cano, Lo Duca etc. The fact he has put up the amount of value he has while hitting with such a low ISO is a testament to just how good a player he is.
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Gameday showed that pitch C. Lee hit about a foot inside, was that close to accurate?
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Saves in general are a weak stat regardless of the number of outs you get. Guy comes in with a 3 run lead bases loaded and 2 outs and strikes out one guy. Other guy comes in with a 1 run lead and no outs, he walks the bases loaded but doesn't let in any runs. Which one of those saves was more 'valuable'? They should just do away with the stat so managers go back to using their best guy in the highest leverage situation. Right now managers play to get a save, they don't play to win.
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It's time for me to give credit to Hendry for the offseason.
Ender replied to badger1679666666's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I don't think the moves were bad for this season, I think they could look pretty ugly 2 years from now though, thats where most of the criticism goes. -
Ben Sheets leaves game with distal finger sprain (7/14)
Ender replied to sherwood921's topic in General Baseball Talk
In 2001 he sat because he was young, he could have pitched through it. 2002-2004 he had no injuries. 2005 he got sick which limited him a few starts thats not an injury. Late in the year he got hurt with an injury that was going to take 9-12 months to recover from, he came back early and aggravated the issue (yes the lat is directly related to the shoulder). He has had one major injury in 6.5 years. Imagine next year Zambrano goes down in May, misses the rest of the season and then is just fine in 2009. Is he injury prone because he only has 39 starts over 2 seasons. If Sheets doesn't try to come back and is just hurt for a full season would he no longer have the injury prone tag? To me it seems like the reasoning for the tag is because he tried to come back too early and ended up on the DL again for a couple months, that seems silly to me. -
Ben Sheets leaves game with distal finger sprain (7/14)
Ender replied to sherwood921's topic in General Baseball Talk
The guy has 39 starts in over 2 years yes, he got hurt? Pitchers do that, almost all of them do over a 7 year period. That dosen't make him injury prone, that makes him normal. Injury prone is a Burnett, Wood, Prior, Harden, I just don't see why you'd put Sheets in that category. -
Ben Sheets leaves game with distal finger sprain (7/14)
Ender replied to sherwood921's topic in General Baseball Talk
Distal finger sprain whatever that is. Assuming its a miss a start or two type injury Sheets has still had one major injury in 6.5 years of baseball so I still don't see how you call that injury prone. Certainly not Wood/Prior/Harden type prone. -
Distal finger strain for Sheets, whatever that is.
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Initial word is a blister for Sheets though you know how iffy those initial words can be.
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Brewers schedule looks a lot like the Cubs so I'd expect the two teams to play about the same quality of schedule. I know the Brewers have a ton of games against the Reds and Cardinals still.
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Fielder loves meatballs and pretty much all other types of meat too.
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Cubs break into the top 10 in ESPN Power Rankings
Ender replied to RyneSandberg's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
BP has the cubs at #11. The best quote out of the snippet... -
The Cubs can't control what the Brewers do - only try and win their own games. I'll take 11-5 every 16 games for the rest of the season. 8-) LA, AZ, and ATL don't impress me very much. If we just concentrate on winning in July, I wouldn't be a bit suprised to see us jump on top of that wild card race. The Crew probably won't slow down, they're real good, are getty Cappy back, have an easy schedule, hit really well, blah blah. Too many reasons I can think of they won't slide. Hope they do, but I'm not counting on it. Not winning the division doesn't have to be the death knell of our season, though. Don't worry, Sheets will go down eventually. There are plenty of reasons to think the Brewers will fail in the 2nd half but hoping that a SP who has had one major injury in past 7 years is probably not the proper reason. Just because it spanned the end of one season and the start of another does not make him injury prone.
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Pirates up 1-0 on a misplayed ball by Jenkins and a couple ground outs.
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Hogwash. Wright has 3 times as many errors as Aramis this year. Aram's defense has been superb lately. Aramis is still behind him in every other significant defensive stat and to be fair using a 1/2 season sample is pretty useless for fielding. Wright beats him in win shares, beats him in every range based defensive metric I can find. I'm not saying Aramis doesn't belong just saying that I don't see how Wright making it is a bad thing. If you want to complain its that all 3 aren't in not that any single one is in.
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To be fair Wright generally plays gold glove calibre defense and Aramis and Cabrera are below average. I think picking any 2 of those 3 is fine and the 3rd is a snub to make room for the dumb nat player. Same with the SS's, a very strong argument can be made for Renteria and Rollins being as valuable as Hardy. Another argument can be made for Ramirez being as valuable as Reyes and more valuable than Hardy.
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I think its still a valid thing to look at, especially compared to career averages. His is always low though so the .253 isn't as low as it would be for another pitcher.
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he's not good though he's not VMart bad either... though I just looked it up and this year he has been worse. Maybe Pudge makes some sense then.
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I think Posada should be the C, there is no way I'd pick VMart given how many speed guys are going to be on the NL team. Bengie Molina could probably steal off VMart at a 70% clip.
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5.19 K/9 is below average, 3.56 BB/9 is worse than average, 9.3% HR/FB is a tiny bit better than average probably because of the early weather. 69.7% LOB is actually a bit of bad luck on his part. BABIP .253 isn't really sustainable so he'll give up more H's in the future. 50.2% GB% is the real key here. Last year it dipped to 40% and he was terrible, the previous 2 years when it was 50%+ he had decent ERA's. Marquis is not a great pitcher but he is pitching a lot like he did in 2004/2005 so I don't see why you'd expect a lot worse results. Wrigley might cost him a few extra runs as will the Cubs defense compared to those really strong Cardinal defenses those years but I don't see why you'd expect a repeat of last season. I think most teams would replace their #5 with him and a number of them would replace their #4's.
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Looking at his stats he should probably be around a 4.00-4.50 ERA instead of what its at now but that still puts him as an above average #4 starter and one of the best #5's on any team.
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They did somewhat. They had a stretch on their schedule including games @NYM, @PHI, @SDP, @LAD, @DET, @Min, vs Min, vs Cubs. Brewers are a decent team but they still aren't good enough to beat good teams on the road on a regular basis. The thing that is going to make it really hard for others to catch up is that the Brewers have an extremely easy second half schedule, its going to be hard for the Brewers to go on another really bad streak barring injuries.
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Sheets over 110 pitches, kind of a wierd choice leaving him out there. Gotta think Yost is hoping to pad his stats to get him in the all star game.
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I think you must be thinking of somebody else... The closest to not flattering I've ever posted is that I think Sheets is as good as Zambrano. Anyway sorry if it sounded like a rip on the Cubs, thats not how it was meant. It was more of a that is something wierd that you don't see every day, especially given the pinch hit.
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Anyway, it's probably not the best time for you to be pointing that out... I certainly didn't go over to brewersfan.net and post anything about yesterday's game. I just found it interesting, its hard to line things up where even all the RP got pinch hit for. Wasn't supposed to be a rip on the Cubs.