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  1. soccer10k
    No. Not that that's really saying anything though.
  2. soccer10k
    Thank you Fontenot. Keep it up boys.
  3. soccer10k
    Please don't let Jones face the lefty.
  4. soccer10k
    Somebody check Mota for roids.
  5. soccer10k
    Was Kerry really hitting 95? Gameday has him at 92 and 93 for the fastball.
  6. soccer10k
    KERRY!!!
  7. soccer10k
    League average for NL starting pitchers is 4.51. League average for starting AL pitchers is 4.64. Only two NL teams have team starter ERA's under 4. There are also only 44 qualified starting pitchers in the majors who have an ERA under 4 - 23 in the NL and 21 in the AL. So by your estimation, a majority of the starting pitchers in the majors aren't good. Sorry, I won't try to rationalize the pi** poor pitching of Marquis. And I'm sorry that you grossly exaggerated to try to make a point about Marquis.
  8. soccer10k
    League average for NL starting pitchers is 4.51. League average for starting AL pitchers is 4.64. Only two NL teams have team starter ERA's under 4. There are also only 44 qualified starting pitchers in the majors who have an ERA under 4 - 23 in the NL and 21 in the AL. So by your estimation, a majority of the starting pitchers in the majors aren't good.
  9. soccer10k
    Bloody @#$@@!! Sox. Now it isn't possible for us to make a deal for him. So that would mean he only made it past three teams, right - the Devil Rays, Rangers, and Royals?
  10. soccer10k
    I am almost positive he is in the 2nd year of a 3 year deal. He is.
  11. soccer10k
    I can't wait to see the highlight of this catch on SportsCenter.
  12. soccer10k
    I'm pretty much numb to these losses now. We have had 7 walk off losses this year and a few blown games like this as well. Though I certainly don't feel bad that the Brewers lost I have to say, like others have said, I understand what you're feeling right now with these tough losses.
  13. soccer10k
    He's famous for having some of the quickest wrists in the history of the game. I think he would have been fine. He could have pneumatic-powered wrists, but if he wasn't more direct to the ball there's no way he's catching up to the fastballs of this era. He faced Koufax, Fergie Jenkins, Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson, etc. You act like he was facing highschoolers. This was only 40 years ago. It's the depth of the pitching. 40 years is quite a long time. I'm sure they didn't have starters like Glendon Rusch and Kip Wells back when Aaron played. While the elite players may be better now than they were back then, there were also fewer players. The talent pool is much more diluted now than it used to be with so many teams.
  14. soccer10k
    Well given that he has a career .366 OBP and .804 OPS in the minors, I'd say yes, the do suggest that he projects as something more than a "decent back up infielder." Meanwhile Ronny's career numbers are considerably worse - not necessarily a fair comparison because Cedeno started out in the minors when he was 18 and has always been young for his level, but the fact remains that Fontenot exhibits better patience, and his ability to not swing at everything means he hasn't been exploited at the big league level like Ronny has. Don't you have to drop the numbers a bit if you're going to try to project what a player can do at the major league level from what he did in the minors...i.e. Fontenot isn't going to project to have a .366 OBP at the ML level.
  15. soccer10k
    Nope. I'm not giving up on the Cubs anytime soon.
  16. soccer10k
    I know what you are saying Banedon. No matter how many times I post his earned runs allowed broken down by games, people still keep saying it, but these same people are completely ignoring Marquis inconsistency. Its rather "inconsistent" wouldnt you say? Count me in on that as well.
  17. soccer10k
    I hope they have this game on the TV in the press box at the River Cats game. They usually have the Sunday Night game on so it would be nice if they kept it up. Not like there will be anything else on at that time anyway.
  18. soccer10k
    Go Cubs? Nah. You could always root for the Brewers to win 91.
  19. soccer10k
    That wasn't how he wanted to play baseball. He thought he had a better chance to get on base and thus help his team if he played the way that he knew best, which was slapping the ball to all fields i.e. Ichiro. He was wrong, then. Why is he wrong? It's obviously better to get on base as much as possible so if Cobb thought he could get on base more often by hitting to all fields rather than swinging for the fences, shouldn't that be a good thing?
  20. soccer10k
    Johan Santana had a stretch of 12 straight starts where he lowered his ERA in 2004. On May 29 his ERA was 5.61 and on August 1 it was 3.30. He then had one start on August 7 where his ERA went from 3.30 to 3.34 and he followed that by lowering his ERA for his next 10 starts. So he lowered his ERA in 22 of he final 23 starts of the 04 season. Since Johan is notorious for being better post-ASB, he was the first pitcher that popped into my head.
  21. soccer10k
    I sure wouldn't. Because of his slightly higher OPS and higher OBP and other miscellaneous sabermetrics? I'm just a caveman; your flashing lights, zooming cars, and mathematics frighten and disorient me, but I think I'll go with the guy who had over 100 more bases that season. Well you do live in Mississippi, isn't that close enough? :wink:
  22. soccer10k
    ... with 15 walks. So he's been on base 21 out of his last 48 plate appearances. Sure does look a lot nicer when you include that, doesn't it? I should have clarified a bit more to what I was talking about. I was referring more to how he was swinging the bat. I know he's still got the walks and wasn't dismissing it. But his actual swings didn't look very good in that stretch and he wasn't making good contact.
  23. soccer10k
    Will Ohman splits: vs righties: .304/.355/.464/.819 vs lefties: .224/.308/.379/.687 I'm assuming you still have Ohman's wonderful outing against the Phillies on Thursday fresh in your mind and that is why you want him gone. Here is who Ohman faced on Thursday: C. Roberson - switch A. Nunez - switch C. Coste - righty C. Ruiz - righty J. Werth - righty T. Iguchi - righty J. Rollins - lefty Now, if you bring in a lefty, you know that Roberson and Nunez are going to hit right handed, i.e. the type of hitters that Ohman struggles against. Now, I'm not taking all the blame off Ohman in that situation because he still allowed the hits but there is no reason that he should have been brought into the game in that situation. And that one is on Lou. That being said, I don't like the idea of having a pitcher on the roster who specializes in getting guys out who bat from one side of the plate but struggles against guys who bat from the other side. It's just not worth it, IMO.
  24. soccer10k
    http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/images/fan_forum/y2007/ads/800x600_cws_contreras.jpg Funny that the guy in that poster has an excellent chance of losing 20 games this season. Really, how many guys have lost 14 games in JUST FOUR MONTHS? Is Kip Wells even that bad? Nope. Kip Wells only has 13 losses.
  25. soccer10k
    Please. Give them respect where it's due. It was four weeks.
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