Transmogrified Tiger

You've gotta pinch hit for Edmonds there. Lefties make him look stupid. Even if you want to say Edmonds hit a HR off one on Saturday, Murton was 2 for 3 against them in his previous 2 appearances. It's the right move. Blanco for Patterson, I'm not so sure about. I see the logic(Blanco's splits, Sherrill's splits, Patterson with no ABs v. LHP thus far), but I would've let Eric hit. Blanco had one at bat since the Tampa series, and Patterson had been swinging a hot bat with good plate discipline(plus he OPSed .910 against LHP in Iowa this year).

I'm not sure I'd make that trade off, and Pie being an outstanding defender while Patterson is below average makes it easier. I'd probably take Pie with a .300/.400 OBP/SLG over Patterson hitting .350/.400. b/c Pie projects to be better or you mean over the long term you'd take Pie at those #s over Patterson at those #s? I'm having a hard time seeing Pie's defense make up for an extra 50 points of OBP (with equal SLG) esp in Wrigley. A little of both. I don't think Pie's defensive advantage over Patterson can be overstated, it's probably 20 runs over the course of the season(yes I realize the irony of that compound sentence). But yes, the fact that Pie is younger and hit better at high levels than Patterson also gives hope that he'll be at least equal offensively at the MLB level.

He's like the baseball John Nash

??? The Cardinals run differential is +28 LAAAAAAAA = Los Angeles of Anaheim

He definitely wasn't picking up Sherrill's slider, although if the ump had called that fastball that was a foot outside ball 2, he may not have bit on the sliders(since if they were fastballs they would've been in that spot a foot outside).

Pina continuing the strong pitching performances tonight: 4 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 HR, 6/2 K/BB, 3-3 GO-FO Vitters and Flaherty are both 0 for 2.

You weren't talking about commercials, the board software got confused.

Samardzija's 6th: Double, HBP, fly out to deeeep CF(McPherson, runner to 3rd), RBI double(second runner out at home), walk, wild pitch, ground out 6 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 1 HR, 5/2 K/BB, HBP, 2 WP, 4-6 GO-FO, 96 pitches That should probably be his final line. A very nice outing for his first AAA start, especially in the hitters haven that is Albuquerque.

What do you suggest? Letting a fifteen year veteran who has hit 3 homers in the last 3 games bat. I don't care if the pitcher is a lefty. You should care, LHP make Edmonds weep. He has a .493 OPS against them this year.

Samardzija's 5th: K swinging, ground out to pitcher, K swinging 5 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 1 HR, 5/1 K/BB, 3-5 GO-FO, 76 pitches Pina struck out the side in the first for Boise, Vitters reached on an error by his 3B counterpart

I'm not sure I'd make that trade off, and Pie being an outstanding defender while Patterson is below average makes it easier. I'd probably take Pie with a .300/.400 OBP/SLG over Patterson hitting .350/.400. It's kind of a judgement call. I assume you meant to write .350/.400 Patterson and .300/.500 Pie. I'm never sure how to value defense. It's sort of an intangible, and we really don't know how bad/good Patterson would be as a CF. We just know he's not great at 2b. Of Patterson and Pie, I wonder who has more value in the eyes of other teams? I'd probably trade whichever one would get me the frontline starter we need in any case. There's a lot of different metrics out there. UZR, RZR(which you can find at hardball times), PMR, and more that are PBP based. Pie routinely comes out as saving a ton of runs defensively, especially for his brief time in the majors. No, I meant a .400 SLG for Pie. He's really as good as it gets defensively, enough to make up for that OBP discrepancy. That said, if trading Patterson gets Randy Wolf, and Pie gets Burnett/Harden/Sabathia, it's a much different decision. What stats are good measures of defense and how do you compare them with offensive stats, or is it simply a matter of judgement? I ask because I'm curious. You guys know a lot more about stats than I do so maybe I'm missing something.

Samardzija's 4th: flyout, home run(dallas mcpherson), K swinging, single, wild pitch(runner to 2nd), flyout 4 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 1 HR, 3/1 K/BB, 2-5 GO-FO, 64 pitches Rhee's line from before is his final line.

Samardzija's 3rd: line out to short, ground out to the pitcher, single, ground to third 3 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2/1 K/BB, 2-3 GO-FO

Patterson has 25 career games in CF. None before last year, and only 2 thus far in 2008.

Samardzija's 1st: walk, caught stealing, K, flyout Samardzija's 2nd: single, flyout, Strikeout(runner steals 2nd), RBI single caught trying to go to second. 2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2/1 K/BB, 33 pitches Rhee continues to dominate: 6 IP, 2 H(both 1B), 1 ER, 7/1 K/BB

It's not like they bunted with Teixeira, Infante's not much better of an option, and he could GIDP.

Why are the awful Brewers announcers on EI for a Braves home game? runner on 3rd with 2 outs for the Braves

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_06_24_iowaaa_albaaa_1 A walk and a K in a scoreless first.

Theriot really does have no range. I mean, there's not many people who get to that ball, if any, but most people are within 20 feet.

The Angels are up 5, but your point is valid(especially considering the 2nd and 3rd best records in the NL are in our division).

Rhee mowing em down again tonight. Thus far: 5 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 5/1 K/BB

anyone thinking they will just fade away and we win the division by 10 games is [expletive]. man, who crapped in your cheerios this morning? The people who constantly get to use personal attacks, by name, with mods posting in threads. Even though it is against the board rules. The high and mighty crap a certain group get away with on here. Okay, I read back 5 pages to when I woke up and got to the thread, and the closest thing to personal attacks I've found are you being bitterly sarcastic towards people. What are you talking about?

That ball was pretty easily outside, being a LH breaking pitch it was never close to the plate.

Cmon Kosuke, you could've saved a run with a better route

What an irritating at bat.