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  1. CaliforniaRaisin
    93 the highest I saw all season.... The Daytona announcer said he put something extra on that particular pitch, so I'm guessing he was consistently in the lower 90s. Veal's night is done, he doesn't make it out of the 6th. He gave up 2 walks, an unearned run and had a costly error on a pickoff in the 6th. Veal's final line is: 5.2 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 3/3, as Weber came in and got the job done.
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    Veal clocked in the "mid-90s."
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    Interesting read, thanks. I'm shocked Veal would be top-3 worthy considering his control problems and the number of flyouts he has surrendered.
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    Peoria puts up a 5-spot in the first inning. They lead it 5-0 after 2. Yepez: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0/1 West Tenn leads it 1-0 in the second inning (thanks to a Chris Walker triple and an EPatt RBI single). Gallagher: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1/2
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    Donald Veal's debut going well so far: 5 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 2/1. Heck, he has more grounds outs than fly outs (7 to 5)! Daytona leads it 1-0, thanks in part to a catching error by Vero Beach's pitcher. I would like to once again point out that VB's pitcher's name is Bastardo. :mamoru:
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    I've always wondered why things like that don't happen a lot more often in sports. The Cubs could have got Soriano for Sosa and resigned him if they did that. I'd just throw in an extra 2 or 3 mil to the contract to get the player to do it. If he liked playing for your team and wanted to win, I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem. He might even get a ring out of it with his temporary team. I think an NBA team attemped something like this, the raptors come to mind. I beleive the league forfeited their draft picks and fined them as a penelty for it. Does this ring a bell for anyone else? Either way I bet its a no/no in baseball too. I think you're thinking of the Joe Smith situation with the Timberwolves.
  7. CaliforniaRaisin
    Correct.
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    I know! I don't get it? Once he gets to the majors he can't pitch a strike to save his life. His fastball is average at best as is his change. How's he doing it in AAA? Does he look different? Little known fact. Major league hitters are better than minor league hitters. When players move up a level it takes time to adjust. Most guys struggle, and many even look awful while going through that adjustment period. And most adjustment periods take longer than a handful of starts. I can see struggling meaning he's getting hard, but struggling to throw stikes is what's the strange part. In AAA he doesn't walk anyone but in the majors he walks the world. Major league hitters are more patient.
  9. CaliforniaRaisin
    LHP Mark Pawelek RHP Billy Petrick RHP Jeff Samardzija SS Sammy Baez OF DJ Lewis Eventually Tyler Colvin should end up in Boise too. Other intriguing names are LHP Jeremy Papelbon, RHP Billy Muldowney and 1B Russ Canzler.
  10. CaliforniaRaisin
    Probable Starters: Iowa: LHP Les Walrond (7-2, 3.46 ERA, 80.2 IP, 60/38, 1.48 WHIP) vs. RHP Seth Etherton (3-3, 4.70) West Tenn: RHP Sean Gallagher (1-0, 3.60 ERA, 5 IP, 5/4, 1.80 WHIP) Daytona: LHP Donald Veal (Peoria: 5-3, 2.69 ERA, 73.2 IP, 86/40, 1.14 WHIP) vs LHP Alberto Bastardo (2-3, 3.99 ERA) Peoria: LHP Jesus Yepez (2-3, 3.50 ERA, 61.2 IP, 32/35, 1.44 WHIP) vs. RHP Kyle Sadlowski (4-1, 3.99 ERA) Boise: RHP Jose Pina (2005 @ Mesa: 3-5, 4.83 ERA, 52.2 IP) vs. RHP Aaron Breit (0-0, 16.20 ERA, 1.2 IP) Mesa: ?? Veal makes his Daytona debut.
  11. CaliforniaRaisin
    Holliman's start was the longest by a Daytona pitcher this season - longer than any start by even Sean Gallagher. Boise lost 7-3 and are off to a 0-4 start. Deryck Lewis went 2/4 with 2 RBI and another walk. Jeremy Papelbon made his professional debut with 2 shutout innings of relief work.
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    Oddly enough, Samardzija is listed on Boise's roster on the MiLB.com website. I saw Samardzija interviewed in a Hawks cap from Boise on ESPN 360 this morning. He's with the team and has been working out with them. But his contract hasn't been approved by MLB, so he can't officially be on a roster.
  13. CaliforniaRaisin
    It's gotta be for more than just Barrett suspension since the big league squad didn't call up Reyes or Soto.
  14. CaliforniaRaisin
    First of all, he missed a start after that. Secondly, the tests showed no ligament damage. Then they ran a bone scan which showed that Prior had the equivalent of shin splints for the arm, which he pitched through for the remainder of the season. I can't believe I'm actually engaging in a conversation about Prior's pain threshold.
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    Whether he has perfect mechanics or not is irrelevant to the point. When a pitcher tires, he compensates by altering his mechanics and that's when the injury risk magnifies. If he said he wasn't tired and could keep going in all of those games and did it without showing any effects time after time, I can't see how that is their fault. Prior's never had a problem taking himself out of the game when he thinks something doesn't feel right, so I doubt he would just lie every time. Prior's never had a problem taking himself out of a game when he thinks something doesn't feel right? What about that 2003 season itself, when he colided with Giles and stayed in the game? And I've seen countless times where Prior and Z have started changing their mechanics the later they got in the game and the more they labored. So Prior definitely showed the effects. It's Rothschild's fault for not picking up on this, or if he has, for not making the right moves.
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    That's not good enough. It wasn't hindsight when we were up in arms over the treatment as it was happening (many predicted it would happen before Baker officially signed). You can't just say, "Well, they might have ruined him, but that's in the past, let's move on." That's incompetence. Another good point. I know I wasn't the only one upset throughout the 2003 season (and heck, that 135-pitch game for Prior in 2002). This isn't hindsight here.
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    Whether he has perfect mechanics or not is irrelevant to the point. When a pitcher tires, he compensates by altering his mechanics and that's when the injury risk magnifies.
  18. CaliforniaRaisin
    That certainly was odd. Haha.
  19. CaliforniaRaisin
    Shoulda been a PK for Croatia. Woulda been more deserved than Ghana's.
  20. CaliforniaRaisin
    OK, here's the scoop. From the day Prior came back from his Giles event (8/5/03), there were three instances where this is true and alll were in consecutive starts. He had 7 runs leads after 6 IP against St. Louis on back-to-back starts 8/26 and 9/1 where he ended up going 8 innings both times (116 and 131 pitches). His next start, he had a 5-1 lead against Milwaukee after 6 IP that he ended up going 7 and 129 pitches. He later had 124-133 pitch games his last 3 starts, but all were close games. Wood only had two scattered such instances. He had one game where he pitched an extra inning against Milwaukee after having a 10-2 lead. He went 122 pitches then. His other game was the game against Cincy where he had a no-hitter going in the 7th with a 6-0 lead. Baker did remove him after the Pena scratch hit and 122 pitches. Every other lengthy start was in a close game. Zambrano had a stretch of 8 out of 10 starts with 110+ pitches from August to mid-September, then was ineffective for his last 2 regular season and all 3 post-season starts. Of these he also had two games where he was overextended with late leads. So, in a nutshell, there is a lot of validity to both arguments. These guys had to go long in most of their starts to get that 1 game Central Division title and that NLDS victory. But, there were several instances where even that bullpen could have saved these guys 30+ pitches - just enough to perhaps keep Prir from closing out Game 6 or Wood from pitching well in Game 7. Thanks for looking that up for us, Sooner. If Prior and Wood had been saved a bit in blowouts, it could have made the difference (especially for Prior).
  21. CaliforniaRaisin
    Tempe holds on and wins it 6-5. :( Mesa had runners at first and second with one out but couldn't tie it up.
  22. CaliforniaRaisin
    Wow, they scored a second after I posted that! :D
  23. CaliforniaRaisin
    C'mon, Australia. All you need is a tie!
  24. CaliforniaRaisin
    Dang, Hank Conger is 3/5, with a single, double and a triple and 2 RBI. That's a heck of a way to make your professional debut. He did DH, not catch.
  25. CaliforniaRaisin
    Pagan was replaced on defense before the 8th inning started by Clifford Andersen. Angel's final stat line for the day is: 0/3, BB, SB, R. Mesa goes down quietly in the bottom of the 8th. To the 9th, they lead it 5-4. Randy Brown (not the former Bull guard) comes in to try to close it out and blows it. He gives up a single, a double (by Conger), a single and a FC which allows the Tempe Angels to score 2. To the bottom of the 9th we go, Tempe leads Mesa 6-5.
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