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  1. CubColtPacer
    30 pitches to get through 4 batters there.
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    It is pretty crazy. Even with two of them being end of quarter threes. Thats still 0 for 7 on "normal threes" His 3 looked really bad though. It does not have nearly enough lift on it. He only took one other non 3PT jumpshot, which he made. Everything else was in the paint. And some people on the NBA forums are saying its some conspiracy he got to the line 21 times. Of course they are. I watched the game, and not one of his FTs came on a phantom foul. He maybe had one blocking call that should have been a no call (where the defender was set and Rose slid mostly out of the way). But they're pretty consistent about that call so that wasn't really even noteworthy. Rose earned his free throws. (even though it brought to mind the very similar game where Paul Pierce went 21 for 21 from the foul line against the Pacers in a opening round game 1 that was also at noon and he did not earn those free throws). I actually thought the officials did a good job today. Only a few plays for either squad that should have been called today and only possibly one in the last few minutes.
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    Gameday has him as a 1.134 currently. Their rounding must be slightly different as I have him at 1.133. The difference between yours is in slugging: I have him at .714 SLG for the season so far.
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    Cubs Castro Barney Byrd Ramirez Pena Soriano Fukudome Hill Coleman Rockies Fowler Herrera Giambi Tulowitski Smith Wigginton Stewart Iannetta Hammell
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    If left open, he hits a lot of them. And he did miss some bunnies to make up for his jumpers which is why he was still barely over 50 percent for the day. I didn't see anything particularly special out of the Pacers today. When they play well, this is how they play. Collison playing as well as he did is just about the only thing that surprised me as he doesn't do that very often. The Pacers will probably have 1 game out of the next 3 where they'll play well again and whether they can close out that game will determine if there's a game 5 or not.
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    Garza's FIP is still 1.21 and his xFIP is 1.95. Thanks to those numbers, Fangraphs already calculates his worth to the team at 1.0 WAR so far (which obviously isn't the case, but the system isn't really designed to look at extreme cases like Garza's numbers have been so far). His LD/GB/FB ratio is still all out of whack as well. 2009: 17.8 LD/39.7 GB/42.5 FB 2010: 19.5 LD/35.8 GB/44.7 FB 2011: 34.5 LD/43.6 GB/21.8 FB Already, I think I can say though that he will likely not outperform his FIP by a wide margin for the 5th straight year.
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    Casey Coleman and Coors field is not the greatest combination in the world. I think Coleman will be ok overall at starting in the major leagues but this is a really difficult test for him. A guy with a bad strikeout/walk ratio who likes to keep the ball in play and has an iffy defense behind him combined with all that space in Coors field for balls to land. Coleman better have his sinker working well tonight.
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    I don't understand how a pitcher can be striking out 14 guys per 9 innings and be giving up 40% LD's on balls in play. If he's throwing so many meatballs, how is he striking out lots of people? And if he's giving up this many meatballs, how has he not given up a HR yet this year? His numbers so far this year are utterly perplexing.
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    He was actually pitching very well for Daytona when he was traded. He was just one of a million relief pitchers so he wasn't missed much. He didn't have a great year in AA last year though. http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=P&sid=t260&t=p_pbp&pid=456379
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    It's certainly not common, but that's how I would describe someone like Soto's game. He's a patient hitter, but really aggressive with anything in the zone. I would love Castro to force pitchers to stay in the zone more. He wouldn't need to hit a ton of homeruns to really rake if he could add a few more walks and make pitchers challenge him. Soto's not real aggressive even in the zone. Players like Ramirez, Byrd, Pena, Colvin all swing at a lot more pitches inside the strike zone. What is strange is that Castro is also below all those people at swinging at pitches in the strike zone. Castro has one of the highest percentages of any Cub at swinging pitches outside of the zone but watches more strikes than the average Cub.
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    Welcome back Jersey. That's very possible, although he's been pretty good in his last 700 of those 2000 PA. And he's showing signs of improvement in all the major categories. But it very well could be a mirage-there's no doubt about that. He needs to put up about 2 more seasons of good numbers to really be trusted. he also had a home run per fly ball rate that was up in ryan howard/mark reynolds territory, which can't be expected to last. True, which is why he needs to upgrade his K/BB ratio to be more than a .750 OPS 4th OF type. But the longer he is in the majors that number has continued to get slightly better. That's the number I'm focused on this year to see if Colvin can make improvements because he certainly has decent power in that bat. If that number was horrible so far this year during his slump I'd be a lot more concerned.
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    Welcome back Jersey. That's very possible, although he's been pretty good in his last 700 of those 2000 PA. And he's showing signs of improvement in all the major categories. But it very well could be a mirage-there's no doubt about that. He needs to put up about 2 more seasons of good numbers to really be trusted.
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    You don't enjoy watching Matt Garza give up 12 runs on the fuzzy channel? He can't watch them at all tonight as is the case for many on the board. It's especially annoying to have a WCIU game after an off day.
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    I'm hoping it motivates Rose to show that there's more to the team than just him by passing the ball a lot!
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    He didn't say they'd be particularly effective at it :D For once, I actually agree with Bob Kravitz's take on it though: http://www.indystar.com/article/20110413/SPORTS15/104130317/?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|IndyStar.com|p And while I think Chicago is a slightly easier matchup (Miami would have been even a better matchup) than Boston that doesn't mean that I think Boston is the better team.
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    You'll be happy to hear that it's Zambrano on Monday. The starter for Tuesday hasn't been named yet.
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    I'm not sure what to think. He obviously has struggled which is a big reason why his LD percentage is only 8 percent so far! Even with that horrible LD percentage his BABIP should be higher than .130 though. On the other hand, he has walked more and struck out less than last year. He is hitting home runs at the same pace, hitting doubles at a slightly higher pace, hasn't hit a triple yet (but only had 5 last year). So basically his only big problem in the early going is that he isn't hitting singles. And then look at his left/right splits so far: vs left: 12 AB's, .083/.154/.083, 33.3% K percentage, 7.7% BB percentage vs right: 22 AB's, .182/.280/.545, 22.7% K percentage, 12% BB percentage So he's been utterly lost against left-handers so far this year and has had excellent power and a good strikeout/walk ratio against right-handers. Colvin didn't have a problem against left-handers last year but he didn't play against all types of left-handers last year either. So I'm more inclined to think that he's just faced a few pitchers that weren't good for him. But it's really too soon to tell.
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    This is one of those games that the Cubs absolutely have to be patient. The Rockies had 3 1/3 innings of relief yesterday and have a doubleheader today. Being patient tomorrow night even if it slightly decreases the chance of winning tomorrow night's game gives them a better chance of winning the series.
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    Question about the Pacers...they still have all that cap space this summer right? Obviously everything is up in the air with the lockout and stuff, but who do you guys plan on targeting? Hoping to get 1 big piece, or fill some needed role players? They have over 23 million in cap space for next year compared to this year's cap. I haven't heard many ideas of who the Pacers are targeting. They really need 1 big piece at either power forward, point guard, or maybe shooting guard. But I'm not sure they'll be able to get that one big piece so they might have to settle for more depth. They definitely need some more big man depth as Hibbert and Hansbrough are their only big men for next year. At the end of the day though, the only thing the Pacers are missing is a star. They have lots of good rotation players. If the Pacers had been the one to get lucky in the 08 draft instead of the Bulls the Pacers could easily have been the ones to win 60 games this year. But I don't know where the Pacers are ever going to get that star. I can easily see the Pacers winning one game. They play really well at stretches which is why they have wins over the Bulls, Lakers, Heat, Celtics, Dallas, Denver, and New Orleans. But they could easily get swept and they probably won't win more than 1.
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    I'm not a big fan of Russell starting either, but he didn't exactly get lit up last night. 3 solid hits, a couple dinks, and a couple bunts coupled with some poor defense. He pitched poorly but not nearly as poorly as the result he got. As for why Russell came out, he was on a pitch count. I don't think it was for performance reasons. Dempster has plenty of times before managed to squeeze an extra inning out of a situation where he was already laboring. That's why he has managed to throw so many innings the last few years. The main problem I have with that is trying to do it so early in the season when he's less likely to have his maximum stamina.
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    Colvin has 4 extra base hits (2 HR+2 doubles), 4 walks, 6 strikeouts, and on the other 20 balls put in play he's managed only 1 single.
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    I actually looked at safety first. The first site I looked at had Carter as a mid-rounder but all the others seem to peg him as a 2nd rounder. The Colts could definitely use another safety with Sanders gone and Bullitt possibly being gone as well. I strongly considered the crazy Polian pick of Randall Cobb, but I'll go safe and go with Quinton Carter. I'll PM truffle.
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    The Colts could go so many ways here. I'll let Exile post his thoughts first.
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    On the Pacers side, Dunleavy would be quite the X factor. Even though he was still starting, he was starting to get less and less minutes under Vogel and only had scored in double figures 3 out of his last 11 starts before his injury and has only been back for 5 games now. That choice surprised me. I figured it would be Paul George maybe keeping tabs on Rose or maybe Tyler Hansbrough.
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    It doesn't sound like it's likely at all that Fukudome will be available for anything but pinch-hitting duty for several days.
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