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if a guy is hitting almost .400 in the minors, but can't get his slugging percentage over .600, well, he better be a middle infielder or a centerfielder or something before anyone cares.

Oops, i figured the word censor would catch it.

Ok, let's see, Damian Miller might as well be a good player, a .790 ops at catcher is probably slightly better than average for a catcher, but Matheny, Molina and Ausmus are god awful. If you have a decent offense, you can hide them in the lineup and let them make their money on defense. Having either of those three basically gives you two pitchers in the lineup.

well, hell.

Crawford is hitting a lot, Baldelli looks great, Delmon Young is hitting .370 in AAA and Gomes is young, cheap and better than most people give him credit for (Think Adam Dunn minus 8.65 million a year).

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Hahah, damage control by Ozzie? I'm sure he caught a lot of flack for the whole "somebody gets hurt, Joe Crede is in" thing from earlier. What better way to absolve himself than to invite this "Venezuelan piece of [radio edit]".

A computer? You lost me. I'm saying that Prior is having a rough go of it because of these reasons He's young and since he hasn't ever played a full season, he's missed a lot of development time. Aside from all the time he's missed, the actual injuries have to have had a detrimental effect on his stuff, at least somewhat, considering he's injured his leg, his achilles, his shoulder and his elbow. These are actual, real reasons that you can point the finger at and say "Hey, this stuff actually happened and are actual reasons that players actually do worse than we may want/expect". Saying that "he isn't tough enough" or "he isn't mentally strong enough" or "he doesn't have enough composure" is just a guess. You can actually point to the injuries and the missed time, those are real. The rest are just stupid assumpions, and I'm sure you know what happens when you assume. When Prior went through his first real, bad injury in 2003 (shoulder) he came back and dominated. Not just pitched well, but dominated. I'd say that takes some mental toughness.

I think some can but what I don't like about Prior is when he struggles he doesn't seem (yeah IMO) to be able to fight out of it. He's had a lot of success and can't deal with failure when he face's it. He's freaking fighting his way out of some rather screwed up injury issues, as well as having to deal with the ineptitude of Dusty Baker throughout his major league career. This all seems like more of the "he's not man enough" rubbish that everybody falls back on when explaining why things aren't so fine and dandy right now. I agree. How many ace pitchers have had the weight of a franchise thrust onto their shoulders and came out the better for it? As a 25 year old, I'm sure there's more than enough pressure on him, without having to battle back from consistent and random injuries. It's almost like some fans (and Dusty) think that he's supposed to pitch a perfect game every time out there. Agreed. I get really sick of these stupid "insights" into players personality that everyone seems to have. Instead of realizing that he's been hurt every single year he's been in the majors and thinking about the effect that just the missed time will have on a player (not to mention the actual injury and rehab, etc), let's blame him for not being man enough. Michael Barret is stupid, Corey Patterson is uncoachable, Wood and Prior aren't tough enough, whatever the excuse of the day is. Things are bad enough now without coming up with stupid and pointless comments about a players mental toughness, or physical toughness or whatever it is these days.

hahah, dammit, I was coming in here to ask that

When do you guys want to start?

Lets see, Rusch had a terrible 1 inning of work. Thank god he's good 75% of the time for us, that means that we've got 3 shutout innings coming up.

Didnt Griffey do that exact thing to the Yanks back when he was in Seattle?

it sucks that the fans have to choose between the second best pitcher in the majors over the first half of the season and the best hitter in the AL

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Pagan was a bad hitter in the minor leagues. His average was decent, but a lot more goes into judging a hitter than just batting average. A weak OBP and terrible SLP ruin whatever good his decent batting average accomplished.

im thinking about it, if its a night game. You should hook me up with some student tix

I believe that is exactly the point. Then I don't understand what it is. There are many pitchers who fail at starting and then go on to be relievers. Some of them become good relievers, some bad. What makes Dempster more likely to be among the good relievers? dont you see? because that is exactly the point

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would that be the labia majora or minora?

Who the hell is doing this game on mlb.tv? they're pretty goofy

working in a simpsons reference in a world cup thread, good work.

Probably Ross, since im assuming it's a cincinnati boy.

Wonderful. Yeah, he fouled off a 2 strike pitch, let go of the bat and really grimaced.