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howard also walked 50 times that season and had an OBP of .370+.
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i'm just thankful you had him in there at the beginning of the week.
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looks like a two cent jeff francouer may be his ceiling. wow, what a weird july. it's hard to OPS .969 and have a 29/2 k/bb rate. that's a good site though.
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Hinske to Red Sox
abuck1220 replied to Sabermetrician's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
mabry's actually been quite terrible. -
With a rookie pitching for the Cubs, I don't get it. You have to assume the 1-0 game in this ballpark with these two well rested pitching staffs. seriously...fire this guy eight weeks ago. i think i played football against o'malley in high school...
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glaus is healthy again so i subbed him in for drew, moving cuddyer from 3b to OF.
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baker pontificates further on walks/young pitchers
abuck1220 replied to abuck1220's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
'bout time we got some men up here to take the place of these little pansy boys we've got running around. like last night...hill, guzman and mateo: 10 ip, 7 h, 2 r, 8 k's...get me a MAN up here! -
Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. It's not just 20 pitches in one games. It's 20 pitches when he was laboring, after he was spiked by a runner, during a stretch where he's been pitching poorly in a season when he's been extended every single game and struck in the elbow by a bat, and when he struggled a lot after the WBC. Ok so then we should just not pitch him anymore? I mean what is the OK limit for you? The Pen was just as taxed as Z was. Should we possibly blow out one of our 3 top relievers (all signed for 07 too) just in case Z couldn't handle it? Seriously, why should we be concerned? When has Z ever shown that he can't handle this workload? Clemens has pitched for 20 years with a heavy workload. Not saying that Z is as good as Clemens but if there is no reason to think that Z is hurting then why not let him pitch when he is proving to be effective, chooses to stay in and the pen could use the rest. i quit reading when you implied that the health of the cubs' mediocre bullpen was as important as zambrano's.
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f'in figures...clemens has his worst outing of the year against the shittiest cub lineup in ten years. speaking of which, are you kidding me with this cub lineup tonight?
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I didn't Zambrano laboring at all. He looked as strong in the 7th and 8th as in the 1st. seven walks and a hit batter tell me that there was some laboring.
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pretty good first day for me. i've got the lead despite the fact that i didn't have any starts and buddiga had starts from zito and dontrelle. now i have an 8-7 start advantage the rest of the week.
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priorities!
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i was being sarcastic, by the way.
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everybody complained about the overuse of prior and wood in '03 and they turned out fine. obviously everyone is over-reacting.
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can't overwork the valuable bullpen arms of ohman, novoa and aardsma.
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i didn't watch the game tonight, but i'm sure glad to see zambrano walked seven on his way to a 120 pitch evening in this ever-important game.
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the hand sanitizers are on a roll...nine straight W's, and four of the past five full weeks i've been over 300! i've been picking up steady ground in the race for most overall points.
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i think my magic number to clinch over HBC is one, while my magic number over buddiga is two. HBC's loss this past week was a pretty big blow to his division title chances. obviously, if i beat buddiga this week, i will clinch the division. however, things get interesting if buddiga wins b/c it would be his second win over me this year, giving him the tie breaker should we finish with the same record. my schedule to finish the year has been tough...raw, HBC, buddiga, nccubbies (who has beaten both HBC and buddiga over the past three weeks) and a resurgent leon trotskys. buddiga has a tough schedule to finish the season too...GHS, HBC and leon trotskys. i believe buddiga has nine starts (double starts from zito, piniero, willis and mussina :shock: ) to my eight (double starts from schilling, clemens and harang...not too shabby). buddiga gets eight games from arod and seven from ortiz. by the way, glaus hurt his knee sunday, so he's starting the week on my bench. if/when he gets healthy, i'll be putting him back into the lineup.
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coupling this with what he's said in the past about slow walkers clogging the bases, i've decided that basically, if you walk a slow guy with one or two outs, it's pretty much just like getting him out. and enough already with the griping about the young pitchers. hill, gooz, marmol, marshall, mateo and ryu have gone 13-21 (8 games under .500). z, rusch, wood, prior, williams and maddux have gone 26-34 (8 games under). the cubs don't suck because of young starting pitchers. furthermore, the four rookies in the rotation now are 8-13. the four guys they are "replacing" (maddux, rusch, wood, prior) have gone 14-27. i can't believe people buy into this young starting pitching excuse the cubs are selling.
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umm...what?
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and so are knee jerk reactions!
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Wade Miller?
abuck1220 replied to scs_paradise's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
if he somehow bumps one of the youngsters out of the rotation, i'm gonna be pissed. -
where was that wide zone last half inning? cripes... you suck, pierre.
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he really got squeezed in the ardoin ab. has it been like that all night?
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good thing pagan was playing in the third row of the left field bleachers there.