Mephistopheles
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They'll fall out of the race.
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Lous a freaking idiot Part 2 2009 season
Mephistopheles replied to Keener98's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
well if lous left hand was tied behind his back he'd improve ten fold. -
hes been injured like once in his career. and that was nothing physical. i did not make this thread.
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meh both teams have an offday tomorrow.
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If Soriano knows you're throwing only sliders to him, he can hit the outer half one, however real MLB pitchers don't do that very often. They keep him honest with fastballs, but they go to the slider to get him moreso than they do against other hitters.
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Yes, but Chad Billingsley has a good fastball, good command and an excellent slider. Hiroki Kuroda has a quality fastball and a good slider to go with decent command. Lowe has a good slurvey type breaking pitch and he keeps you honest on the inside because he throws his sinker in on the hands quite a bit. All three righties the Dodgers threw established the inside corner with fastballs and put him away with breaking pitches on the outer half.
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so you're saying throwing a good pitch in a good location gets him out? go figure. im not the one who said throwing him sliders was all that had to be done. the book on him is sliders but you have to execute it because he will hit a hanging one 420 feet.
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Did you watch Friday? He still strikes out every time people throw him sliders low and away. the Cardinals either didn't have the pitchers to do that today, or forgot yesterday. To be fair, the starter yesterday had great movement on his sliders, better than any of the Cardinals pitchers who have pitched since he was pulled. the fact that he strikes out a lot doesn't mean hasn't taken a decent amount of walks in recent years. he did in 2006, did again last season, and is doing it again this season. The only way six percent walk rate is "decent" is if you're pitching.
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not really. a fourth of them were intentional.
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Uh, I never said I wanted to acquire him in the thread....I was merely pointing out what could have been. If I wanted to talk myself up, I would have linked to this thread where I made him my "number 1 offseason target". But of course that wasn't my point, you knew that and you wanted to insult me.
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but throwing good sliders with good location and having a good fastball and establishing the inside corner with it, is pretty damn close to being a foolproof way to get soriano out. of course being able to do that isn't easy.
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Sigh: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=52025&hilit=Greinke
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Like it's his fault that Wang sucks. And Joba sucks. And ARod got hurt. And the bullpen sucks. And...
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Six of the eight home runs were to right. Pronk went oppo and DeRo pulled his.
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yuck basketball.
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hes trying to keep the 100 isod
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top of the lineup means KF is coming up! and Derrek Lee! (?)
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there were two more in todays game so far
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id send him. two outs in the ninth of a tie game? if you can steal the base a third of the time you probably want to try.
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wow early returns are the ball jumps out of new yankee stadium its 20-2. 14 hrs in 2.5 games.
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because said hitters swing at those pitches.
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how about this newfound .100 IsoD for Soriano?
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That's not entirely accurate. Prior to this season he had quality secondary offerings, despite never throwing them. His command of them wasn't nearly as good as the command of his sinker, but the pitches had decent movement. Under no definition are they "bad". I haven't seemed him pitch since the injury, I don't see why that would affect his stuff but who knows.
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Milton Bradley Suspended 2 Games (Appealing Suspension)
Mephistopheles replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
That should tell you how badly watching on TV skews the angles. Exactly. The camera at wrigley is what 20 feet in the air and 20 feet to the right of the pitcher? pitches are naturally going to look lower than they are and pitches are going to look more outside than they are. It's sheer physics. -
Milton Bradley Suspended 2 Games (Appealing Suspension)
Mephistopheles replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Just because you say it is true doesn't make it true. Pitch f/x is highly accurate in terms of the location of the ball at any given point. It's infinitely more accurate than watch a replay from behind the pitcher. From an overhead shot, maybe not. There's no debate to be had here. It's common sense.
