grrrrlacher

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I was speaking from their perspective rather than my own. Also, there are plenty of guys out there with high averages and OBPs that are not much higher. The guy batting leadoff for the Cubs, for example. Like I pointed out in my other post, if you look up the top 40 OBP guys in the majors 37-38 of them are good hitters. Sure there are some good hitters that don't have high OBP, just as there are bad hitters that have outstanding OBP, but they tend to be the exception rather than the norm. Okay. Sure. So out of 40 in the MLB each team on average gets 1-2. Our one is DLee. The problem is guys that aren't good hitters hacking away at everything. Maybe their average would be better if they showed the pitcher they would take a walk and that he needed to throw strikes to get them out. You want the .280 hitter with a .400 OBP (like the historical Jim Thome) and not with a .320 OBP (like the historical Jacque Jones). Even the .260 guy can have a .360 OBP instead of a .298 OBP. I'd really like to see guys add .100 points to their OBP via walks. Look at Giambi this year - .260 Avg with a .415 OBP. But look at Matt Holliday - .337 Avg with a .387 OBP. Who do you think is having more of an impact. If you turn it around and look at the top 40 Avg guys they won't all be in the top 40 OBP. But that isn't who I'm worried about on this team it is the Murton's, the Jones', the Pierre's, the Cedeno's that irritate me. For instance Felipe Lopez(.268) and Royce Clayton(.269) have virtually the same Avg this year, but Lopez has a .356 OBP while Clayton has a .315. That's what I'm talking about. Only one of the top 40 BA guys has a less than .350 OBP. Actually I count 3 (Hillenbrand, J Jones, and Pudge) 14 of the top 40 OBP guys have avg less than .300 while the top 40 all have OBP above .380. 16 of the top AVG guys have a OBP less than .380. I'd rather have one of the 14 than one of the 16. But that's me and not Hendry.[/url]

I was speaking from their perspective rather than my own. Also, there are plenty of guys out there with high averages and OBPs that are not much higher. The guy batting leadoff for the Cubs, for example. Like I pointed out in my other post, if you look up the top 40 OBP guys in the majors 37-38 of them are good hitters. Sure there are some good hitters that don't have high OBP, just as there are bad hitters that have outstanding OBP, but they tend to be the exception rather than the norm. Okay. Sure. So out of 40 in the MLB each team on average gets 1-2. Our one is DLee. The problem is guys that aren't good hitters hacking away at everything. Maybe their average would be better if they showed the pitcher they would take a walk and that he needed to throw strikes to get them out. You want the .280 hitter with a .400 OBP (like the historical Jim Thome) and not with a .320 OBP (like the historical Jacque Jones). Even the .260 guy can have a .360 OBP instead of a .298 OBP. I'd really like to see guys add .100 points to their OBP via walks. Look at Giambi this year - .260 Avg with a .415 OBP. But look at Matt Holliday - .337 Avg with a .387 OBP. Who do you think is having more of an impact. If you turn it around and look at the top 40 Avg guys they won't all be in the top 40 OBP. But that isn't who I'm worried about on this team it is the Murton's, the Jones', the Pierre's, the Cedeno's that irritate me. For instance Felipe Lopez(.268) and Royce Clayton(.269) have virtually the same Avg this year, but Lopez has a .356 OBP while Clayton has a .315. That's what I'm talking about.

The Cubs roving hitting instructor must have had a talk with him. "Son, your not going to walk yourself to the majors. Start hitting!"

What? What did I do?

I started collecting baseball cards in 1980. I didn't really have a team growing up in central Indiana. There were a lot of Reds fans and some Cardinals fans and some Cubs fans. I watched the playoffs and some other games during the year for the next couple of years. I never really latched onto a team though. I had lived in Chicago while I was 4-7 years old. I had loved living in Chicago and missed it. I guess I knew I would be a Cubs fan. In 1982 my parents got cable for the first time because they had a foster child that was 3 and wanted him to be able to watch Sesame Street and other child friendly shows. Lucky me! I was 11 on April 5, 1982. The Cubs opened the season in Cincy. Bump Wills started the game and season off with a solo shot as the Cubs defeated Mario Soto 3-2. Doug Bird pitched 7 innings and Willie Hernandez got the save. Buckner and Moreland each had 3 hits. (I had to look up the game at retrosheet) Milo Hamilton I think was doing the game with Harry. I was hooked from then on. There were many summer days I spent on the couch watching the Cubs.

I was chrisdl on ESPN. I think that was the ridiculous board UK was talking about. Used to be good a year or so ago, but this year it is just bad. I think I have been grrrrlacher everywhere else. That's with 4 Rs. Let there be no imposters.