Transmogrified Tiger

As much as I touted him in the past, there comes a point when being away from the game too long has an impact. With his age and time from the game, I still think he can do well, just that he won't be given a chance. IMO, Hershiser is the best potential candidate out there for manager. Orel over Fredi? I disagree. Yep. While it's not a lot, everything I've heard from Hershiser has been Kruk-esque.

Change the blues to the BP navy blues and wear them as much as humanly possible.

Theriot hitting leadoff would be a bad thing. First of all, Fontenot is better, so even if it was a necessity because we had spent big on other upgrades he isn't the best option. Secondly, either of them in a spot where it's an absolute necessity that they get on base consistently is a poor gamble considering how poor the rest of the offense is.

Most cost-effective? Yes. It's no contest. Best? No. Eyre and Howry have been better. He also has nearly a quarter of their innings. Given his stuff and performance in AAA I believe he'd come out on top.

Wuertz is the best reliever on the team, I'd let him close. Marmol is only 23 and is in only his 4th season as a pitcher. I don't see any reason to move him away from a starter's workload and a starter's value.

Wells is a player who's going to give you pretty good production most years out of CF (~800 OPS), and when he can hit for a higher than normal average, he has super good years. Problem is that trading for him now means you are paying for the super good year, which would be a misallocation of resources. If you really want Wells, the best bet might be to wait until he becomes a FA to avoid grossly overpaying for his production.

Well, the first one was at GABP.

Maddux in August, 2003-2005 2.94 ERA 1.08 WHIP 3.27 K/BB This isn't unusual.

Gil Meche loves Safeco field. 3 year splits (2003-2005) Home: 4.18 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 2.00 K/BB, 1.32 HR/9 Away: 5.56 ERA, 1.57 WHIP, 1.47 K/BB, 1.40 HR/9 2006 Home: 3.84 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 2.68 K/BB, 0.90 HR/9 Away: 4.88 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, 1.47 K/BB, 1.49 HR/9

it's one thing to get better late in the season. it's another to turn on the light switch when at your audition and then pour it on instantly once changing uniforms. edit - and that doesn't explain the 4-5 mph on the fastball that has been missing for two and a half years. I watched the Royals-Indians for an inning today and their gun said Luke Hudson and Todd Wellemeyer both hit 100 in that first inning. I doubt that Maddux has had a significant change in velocity. 2 of his last 3 starts as a Cub were quite good.

Kudos to the first person who can say Dusty's quote out loud without their head exploding.

Because Maddux has never turned it on in the second half before?

Only 3 hits, yikes.

Izturis is already off to an unlucky start BABIP wise. He should be hitting at least .275/.365/.330 as a Cub with his IsoP, IsoD, and LD%

Did Lowell run 10 yards after the catch before falling into the stands too?

Good pitch selection Cesar, poor pitch recognition blue.

Yep. Despite his wretched beginning of the season, he's about at his 40th percentile PECOTA projection, so he hasn't quite put up the numbers expected of him, but he's headed in the right direction. Even if he cools off a little bit, he should end up doing about what was expected of him before the season started. And with Lee back in the lineup (and hopefully a couple more bats) next year, he should continue like this all year next season. Pretty much. He's projected to decline slightly each year until 2010, when the decline is projected to be a little more pronounced. Wonder why they think he'll decline every year? Not like he's old. PECOTA isn't really a "they." It's a system that analyzes past data from years and years and years of baseball. It does a pretty good job. It's especially useful for tempering enthusiasm about career years; the Dodgers GM (DePodesta) wasn't going to give Beltre anything close to what the Mariners did because he believed Beltre's year was an anomaly. PECOTA also did a great job of predicting Ryan Howard's stats this year. Anyway, Aramis's decline isn't projected to be very sharp from year to year. Next year is projected to be pretty much the same as this year, for example, except for maybe a 2 or 3 point drop in OBP. However, PECOTA does expect him to see fewer plate appearances over the next few years, bottoming out at 90 less in 2009 than he sees this year, so it's likely that he'll have to deal with some minor injuries in the upcoming years. These are the same long-term projections from the beginning of the season, right? Unless they've pegged Ramirez's season this year real well, at this point I'd think that the long term projections at the best need revision and at the worst are pretty useless.

That HR may push Felix over a .760 OPS for the season.

Cleveland put up 11 runs in the first inning, 7 before an out was recorded, and then a grand slam by Hafner after the first out of the inning.

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Is Utley blindfolded or something in this scenario?

Vernon Wells is like staring into Felix Pie's future.

This is what happens when an opinion is attributed to everybody.

I tried that, tried "We are awful" and some others, none of them seemed to capture the magic

I never could find the appropriate anti-"We are awesome" phrase