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Aaron Kennelly

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Everything posted by Aaron Kennelly

  1. Aaron Kennelly
    So, without seeing anything yet, from what I've read he looked good. His velo was way up. He throws changeups and sliders harder than our other starters throw fastballs.
  2. Aaron Kennelly
    I got some video of Cease and Mekkes that I'll post tomorrow. And I'll give an in-person report about how much Cease sucks.
  3. Aaron Kennelly
    Man, this Cease guy sucks! So terrible. Sad!
  4. Aaron Kennelly
    Andrew Ely pinch hit and struck out. Better drop him to #5, TT.
  5. Aaron Kennelly
    2IP 1H 0R 0BB 4K for Michael Rucker.
  6. Aaron Kennelly
    Drop: Trevor Story Add: Bryce Harper.
  7. Aaron Kennelly
    An interesting note is that Kyle Hendricks' xStats from last year are nearly identical to his actual numbers, when we were assured in Cy Young discussion that he was actually just lucky and not an actual ace.
  8. Aaron Kennelly
    Good stuff. I'm not even so sure that the defense is completely to blame. I think they are to blame some, for sure. They just haven't been as sharp defensively. And that's not something I expect to continue. There are a lot of really good defenders on this team. And I suspect they'll get their horsefeathers together. But, if you look at the expected stats at https://www.xstats.org/ that Andrew Perpetua keeps, his expected stats are also based off of batted ball direction, which Baseball Savant's aren't. Savant's method only looks at launch angle and exit velocity. Pepetua's calculations have Lester's and Arrieta's xBA and xwOBA higher than Savant's, though not as high as their actual numbers. So I think another problem is that balls are just finding holes -- or finding where there usually are holes. Add them both together, porous defense and finding holes, and then realize it's a small sample size and weird stuff can happen.
  9. Aaron Kennelly
    No longer on the Jon Jay bandwagon.
  10. Aaron Kennelly
    Get the horsefeathers out of here
  11. Aaron Kennelly
    KB! Let's go.
  12. Aaron Kennelly
    Kyle's ERA is below 3 now.
  13. Aaron Kennelly
    Nope.
  14. Aaron Kennelly
    Kyle Hendricks: Somehow Kyle Hendricks.
  15. Aaron Kennelly
    It was not. It was a weird play because of a shift. Javy was trying to do too many things at once, thinking he needed to make the play at second himself, as he wasn't sure if Seal Boy would be able to get to the bag. An he just booted it.
  16. Aaron Kennelly
    Few things... - a 1:1 K:B outing against A level competition is not what an excellent minor league outing is made of. Standards are high! The other day, you were taking positives from an outing in which Ryan Kellogg served up 5 home runs.
  17. Aaron Kennelly
    Those guys from Iowa did yeoman's work eating up innings for us.
  18. Aaron Kennelly
    #weareabove.500
  19. Aaron Kennelly
    Eh, Jon Jay probably deserves some more errors anyway.
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  21. Aaron Kennelly
    Am I correct to assume that Cease will pitch on Thursday? I'm already going to see South Bend in Peoria on Friday. But if Cease is going Thursday, I think I'll have to go to that one, too.
  22. Aaron Kennelly
    Javy!
  23. Aaron Kennelly
    What in tarnation?
  24. Aaron Kennelly
    You didn't see anything in Short that makes you think he can stick at SS? I've read he ought to be able to. I guess I shouldn't say that he can't, because, well, I didn't even see him there. And his arm will play on the left side of the infield. I didn't get a good read on his speed, either. The opportunity didn't really present itself for him to show off his wheels. Maybe he has the range. If he could, he would be an intriguing guy. I wonder how much pop he can hit for. He was a lot more muscular than I'd seen in pictures of him. It looks like he's filled out since college.
  25. Aaron Kennelly
    I liked Wilson a lot, though. Just to compare him to a couple of other speedy CF-type guys from last year, I wasn't very enamored with either Dewees or Eddy Martinez. It was easy to see that Wilson was the most talented player on the field, though. The tools are legit. And he's very exciting. Very fast. Strong arm. Hits the ball hard when he does make contact. He elevated the ball, too. Line drives.
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