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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    Doesn't sound great. No walks is the thing for me. I'm not worried about his inability to be effective if he's not walking a batter an inning.
  2. Transmogrified Tiger
    Z with only 3 more pitches than Harang after 5, that wouldn't have happened with our offense in previous years.
  3. Transmogrified Tiger
    It just can't be easy for Carlos.
  4. Transmogrified Tiger
    haha, and now Yahoo gives up and just starts trying to catch up while scoring Z with .2 IP. Good times.
  5. Transmogrified Tiger
    Yahoo, a strike em out, throw em out double play is not so rare occurrence that it should take 5 minutes for you to report it. Please keep up.
  6. Transmogrified Tiger
    Acosta has had a sneaky good start to the season, especially for a 19 year old at Peoria. Cut down on those HR(how often do you see a guy with more HR given up than walks?) and he'd look great.
  7. Transmogrified Tiger
    I don't have any insight to how Ramirez's wrist feels, I just hope they aren't bringing him back too soon. DeRosa makes for a good enough late inning substitution coinciding with his day off though. By my count, this is the 2nd time that Pie and Cedeno have both started. EDIT: The other time both of them started was the last game of the Met series. Both went 2 for 5, Cedeno doubled and homered.
  8. Transmogrified Tiger
    Hopefully Lou finally moving Soto up in the order and him continuing to hit will make him forget about needing to use Kosuke as protection for Ramirez. There's a L/R thing to get around, but there's hope. Oh, and also the whole "Pie with an .800+ OPS since Keller worked with him" bit.
  9. Transmogrified Tiger
    And if you could add correctly you'd find that we actually went 2-8 after taking out the 19-5 game, making it all the more unlucky :D I like to be conservative and not assume that we'll win a game that we outscore an opponent by 14. :?: In our last 11 games we were 3-8. If you remove the 19-5 game, then we are 2-8, not 3-7. That lack of wit was me responding in embarrasment for my simple math error. Sorry for the confusion.
  10. Transmogrified Tiger
    it's not at all. what's terrible logic is assuming that because some other hitters improved a lot, then so can cedeno. in the cases of the players discussed in this thread, they showed in their first full seasons that they had some of the skills - be it patience or the ability to pick a pitch and drive it for doubles/home runs - that are required to become a good major league player. cedeno showed none of the batting attributes needed to become an average or above-average player at the big league level. saying "hey mike schmidt sucked at 23 and he got good!" is a lazy argument. you're comparing apples to oranges. since i'm so wrong, there should be plenty of examples of guys who were God-awful hitters in their first full seasons, but became average or better. i'm surprised that you guys haven't found all these examples to put me in my place once and for all. No, this is exactly the point I'm saying. Cedeno being "God-awful" as opposed to merely below average or "showing attributes of a useful hitter" is a completely irrelevant point, especially with what he proved at the minor league level.
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    Seriously, the idea that Cedeno has so much further to go or overcome because he was terrible instead of merely bad is a really awful bit of logic. It's not a sliding scale, depending on the hitter, small adjustments can make a huge difference or a marginal one.
  12. Transmogrified Tiger
    And if you could add correctly you'd find that we actually went 2-8 after taking out the 19-5 game, making it all the more unlucky :D I like to be conservative and not assume that we'll win a game that we outscore an opponent by 14.
  13. Transmogrified Tiger
    Even if you remove the 19-5 game, going 3-7 in a 10 game stretch where the differential is -3 is still pretty unlucky.
  14. Transmogrified Tiger
    No. What was hard to believe is that a Big 10 caliber player from Champaign wasn't recruited much by U of I, at least until it was cleared up.
  15. Transmogrified Tiger
    I was talking about in the context of their pitching statistics. Having 3 games out of your first 42 against a Top 7 offense in the NL is remarkable.
  16. Transmogrified Tiger
    Funny because I like guys who hit over .300 and get on base. Then you will LOVE Ronny Cedeno, he's hitting nearly .400.
  17. Transmogrified Tiger
    I hate guys who get thrown out stealing every 5 games and can't make plays at SS because of a mediocre arm and mediocre range.
  18. Transmogrified Tiger
    Would you deal Granderson for Conor Jackson? I have Swisher at 1B, and Markakis, J Upton, and Hermida as other OFs. It's 5x5, and the only category I'm not near the top in is RBI.
  19. Transmogrified Tiger
    Mike Lincoln is a righty. Agree to disagree.
  20. Transmogrified Tiger
    Dusty brings in the LH to face a surefire PH RH and 3 straight right handers before Kosuke. Well done.
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  22. Transmogrified Tiger
    One week ago, what was Fontenot hitting then as compared to Cedeno? Believe me, I'm not trying to keep Cedeno from getting at bats. But you asked why Fontenot is in there tonight, and the answer is he's white hot at the plate. Thing is, between Theriot getting thrown out every time he's on the bases, Johnson being awful against RHP, Ramirez being hurt, and DeRosa slumping hard, there's plenty of room for both to be in the lineup right now.
  23. Transmogrified Tiger
    So the blame should go to Larry Rothschild for Rich Hill's suckiness? Yes, he's the one who screwed with Hill's mechanics at the beginning of the year when there was no need to.
  24. Transmogrified Tiger
    Pitching coaches exist for a reason, and that's because it's extremely difficult to fix mechanical issues by yourself, especially the fine differences that make a difference at the highest level like MLB.
  25. Transmogrified Tiger
    Yeah because everyone else has been hammering Cueto for us. How about we give him a month straight to play instead of only playing him against right handers with electric stuff. Lou is setting him up to fail. Normally I would agree with you......but cmon, he has been horsecrap the last 5 games he's played He went 2 for 4 with a double in the Cardinals series.
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