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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    There's no reason to take Pierre out of the lineup. The leadoff spot? Definitely. But otherwise you're just putting out similar production(Womack, Nevin v. RHP) without the hope of improvement. Our season is pretty much shot, stick Pierre 7th or 8th until he starts hitting more line drives to increase his trade value to the point where he'll be worth something. Otherwise you take the draft pick at the end of the year, but let him play unless there's a real alternative(i.e. Pie in September) that can help for the longer term.
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    It's in line with his LD% though. Remarkably he doesn't hit a lot of line drives. He also doesn't strike out a ton either which means there are more balls in play in general.
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    He's in his contract year. What raises his value more? Pitching in a pennant race or pitching in a bunch of meaningless games? Money talks.... Yep. At this point it's as simple as telling Kerry that his option is not going to be picked up, and since the Cubs' season is lost, it allows him to spend the last couple months of this contract in a pennant race.
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    Thanks! This has been added to my extensive list of baseball bookmarks. Huff's BABIP is .192, by the way. So on the subject of BABIP, is it really all luck? For example, I think it has to be the case that weakling slap hitters like Neifi, Pierre, and Rey Rnez must have low BABIPs for their career. None of three strike out much at all, but especially in the case of Neifi and Rey, their career batting averages are not very good. If BABIP were all luck, shouldn't they have high batting averages since they put the ball in play in a large percentage of their ABs? That's where the type of balls in play becomes a factor. Also at the hardball times, there's line drive percentage. A player's BABIP typically should be 100-110 points higher than their LD%. For example, take Austin Kearns. In '05 according to his LD% he should've had a BABIP upwards of .330, which was nearly 50 points higher than his actual BABIP. That's probably unlucky. This year, his LD% is about the same and his BABIP is more in line with that, leading to a big jump in production. Now these aren't universal truths, Neifi has shown consistently "unlucky" relations between LD% and BABIP, but that's because when he isn't hitting line drives his batted balls are so weak(and he doesn't hit for power) that he doesn't get many hits on groundballs or flyballs. Hopefully that makes sense, my train of thought kinda jumped around a bit.
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    You can always sign up. It doesn't get full. There really isn't any point though; I have a streak of 19 and counting. Stop getting hits. Both times my longest streaks has been ruined by Pujols. First time he only PH and made an out, 2nd time was yesterday. Gah. Pick Rolen every day from now on.
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    At least for weekend games I'd say.
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    I'm a big fan of Patterson's. I wish he'd cut back on the K's, but he walks, has pop, and is a good basestealer. If he can settle in in the .280-.290 range at the MLB level, I think he has a Todd Walker with speed/better defense upside, possibly better. Agreed, in fact I think I made the exact same comparison to Dob the other day.
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    He's gonna need to go nuts for that to happen. Wells, Sizemore, GMJ, Granderson, and Damon are all in front of him, production wise.
  9. Transmogrified Tiger
    Pierre the last 2 weeks: .265/.294/.346/.640 It's an improvement, but still unacceptably awful.
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    Mizzou gets revenge on Pepperdine, downing them 4-1 to force a deciding game tomorrow night! How about Rick Zagone and Aaron Crow, both true freshman, both throw complete games in elimination games in the NCAA tournament. 18 IP, 2 ER, 12 H, 2 BB, 10 K's of freshman sensation. Well done boys.
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    Jacque roaming center? Noooooooo Does it matter that much who's playing bad CF defense? Well, if we're giving up on the season and moving Jones there because we've dealt Pierre and gotten a bat for RF, then I'm okay with that. But beyond this lost cause of a season I really don't want to see Jones in CF for an extended period of time.
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    Scherzer
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    It's also been reported by independent sources like BA that Rowell has good plate discipline.
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    Murton didn't look all that great today, but he was taking a lot of pitches and nearly everything was getting called a strike, even if it wasn't. I wouldn't worry about Murton as a player based on his performance today, but I am worried about what Clines and friends are trying to instill in him.
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    That wouldn't be all that great offensively either.
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    Yeah, I think KC dropped the ball by keeping Sisco in the Major League pen. He's just getting lit up.
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    Nevin doesn't provide anything against RHP. 2006: .197/.298/.371/.669, 151 PA's 2005: .253/.285/.387/.672, 266 PA's Womack's garbage too, but he's gotten off to a hot start(10 for 28 v. RHP) so there's potential for that to continue.
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    Like that, the exact same pitch he rung up Cedeno on.
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    He's been really inconsistent.
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    Unreal blue.
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    thank you for taking second Jacque
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    The home plate umpire has been awful today.
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    Yeah, it's not. Anyone know our record vs the central? 14-10 before today.
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    I just thought he had a huge forehead :) He sees you.
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    Someone forgot to resize Marmol's gameday picture.
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