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Everything posted by Aaron Kennelly
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Impressive stuff, new guy. -
Still pumping heat. I could live with him magically adding 2 mph overnight.
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Quintana is throwing heat. Four-seam is averaging 94.0 mph. For the season, he's averaged 91.9 mph.
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7 of 8 batted balls have been at least 100 mph exit velocity this inning.
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#wearegood
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112 mph
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Twice. Two fastest pitches he's thrown this season.
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That stinks.
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Let's get Jose 4 or 5 runs before he even throws a pitch.
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I didn't realize we got to face Ubaldo, too. Man, these guys suck.
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Damn, Hector is pumping some heat.
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The dongs don't stop.
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So Willson's pretty much been the stud we thought he was going to be.
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I'm assuming the pitching was relatively decent when they were playing well. And then they went on that three week stretch where they gave up at least 5 runs every game, and they probably saw all their stats go to horsefeathers, while only dropping a relatively small amount of games.
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Plus Happ, and Almora vs. lefties. That's some production we weren't expecting.
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J-Hey!
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Big fan of the Second-half Cubs.
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Yeah, they are going to finish below .500 and the horrible NL Central will get two teams in the playoffs. Brewers over Diamondbacks in Wild Card Game. Brewers over Dodgers. Cubs over Nats. Then we can settle this thing once and for all.
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Dong!
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Keep dongin'.
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Plus, just the sheer number of years puts it over the top, in my opinion. The Howard deal was hilarious because everyone knew it was horrible when he signed the extension two years before he was a FA. And the Phillies had to regret it even before it started. But those five years flew by in comparison. Pujols' deal is hindering the Angels for a full decade. And it's ruining that team during the prime of possibly the greatest player ever. Absolutely atrocious.
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Oh yeah. This is going to take Howard off the hook. I don't think that Pujols will get to negative WAR for the entirety of the deal but there's a non zero chance it happens. Josh Hamilton's 5/$123m and 3.1 WAR look like a classic moneyball deal compared to Howard and Pujols. Arte Moreno is the best. For expected WAR to actual WAR, it will probably blow Howard out of the water. The last five years will basically be on par with Howard's. And tack on another five years at the start that he severely underperformed.
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Oh yeah. This is going to take Howard off the hook.
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Ryan Howard. 5 year extension, $125 million, in 2012 money. -2.2 WAR.
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He did bring in all of his top relievers in the middle of the game. Not many people are getting to Britton. Other than Britton, I know nothing about the Orioles' bullpen, so yeah maybe it was some quality guys going against us. Which then wouldn't be so bad. The back of their pen is really solid, with Britton back now. The rest of the pen is horrible, and they've had trouble even filling it out. They threw all the good ones tonight, though. ERAs: 1.38, 3.77, 2.20, 2.08, 2.75. The 3.77 is O'Day, who has a sub-3 FIP and has been really good in the past. If we didn't horsefeathers the bed in the 5th, we probably score 15 runs.