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And Scott actually crushes righties, unlike Bradley who has always hit LHP much better than RHP. I still think it's funny that they were so obsessed with getting a LHB last season and got a guy who isn't even good from that side. Not only was the obsession dumb to being with, but they didn't even do it right.

I'm not the one who first used a split. I was simply offering a better alternative than yours, even if mine was a bit misleading as well. Whatever, I don't care. You showed a split to make him look like he's been a completely different pitcher in his last 5 starts when compared the his first 2 starts, and I showed you why that's not true at all. Not much else to argue. Problem is, he has been a completely different pitcher since in those first two starts he pitched like the greatest man to ever pick up a baseball and the last five starts he's been merely average. I just don't think it's fair to lump those 5 starts together when he was good in 3 of the 5 (despite ERA). To say he has a 1.37 WHIP over his last 5 starts is highly misleading when in the 4 prior to his last start, he had a 1.13 WHIP. There's a small enough sample size here to just look at all 7 starts and determine where the real splits are. He's been good in 5 of his 7 starts.

I'm not the one who first used a split. I was simply offering a better alternative than yours, even if mine was a bit misleading as well. Whatever, I don't care. You showed a split to make him look like he's been a completely different pitcher in his last 5 starts when compared the his first 2 starts, and I showed you why that's not true at all. Not much else to argue.

When the current GM has already fired two of the most respected batting coaches in the business within just a few months of each other, who can you realistically expect Hendry to hire next? You are dreaming if you think Jaramillo would come here so that he can be the next person Hendry blames for his own shortcomings. Since when did Von Joshua become one of the most respected hitting coaches in the game? People weren't exactly lining up to hire him while he spent the last several years in the Cubs minor league system. This whole Von Joshua uproar is getting out of control. Von Joshua has been very highly regarded for quite a while now.

highly skewed due to your arbitrary start and end points And his first six starts stats that NPC posted are highly skewed by Smoltz's ridiculously good first two starts. My point was that some people were freaking out that Smoltz had two great starts right after going to the Cardinals and started spouting all of that pixie dust BS but since then he's been average at best. His two starts against the Brewers (4 ER in 6 IP and 3 ER in 5 IP) were below average, though his WHIP and K's were solid. He had solid starts against the Cubs and Houston before getting lit up by Cincinnati. So in his last five starts, two were good, two were below average and one was bad. That's probably slightly below average overall. His ERA in those starts is a run worse than the NL starters average but the WHIP is right at the average. why are you using era and writing off whip and k/bb? he has been good in 5 of his 7 starts Who says I'm writing off WHIP and K/BB. His ERA being a run worse than average in those five starts is bad but his WHIP was average. I said he was slightly below average. He's also given up 12 XBH out of his 29 in that run (41 percent), while the league average is 33 percent and for starters it's 34.5 percent. That's below average. That, combined with his not walking a lot of people tells me he's throwing a lot of strikes but it's hit or miss in terms of how good his pitches are. But like I said, you completely missed the main point of my post. i don't think so. you posted a split that implied smoltz was great in his first 2 starts and then average his next 5. i think your post was misleading, unless you're going to judge a pitcher by era (and you shouldn't). he was bad in his last start, but in the previous 4 starts he had a 1.13 whip, a 22/3 k/bb (23 ip) and a .681 OPS. i don't see how you can possibly say that's below average. nonprofitcow's split was much more telling. oh and before someone says something again, i'm not even fighting. relax.

i was expecting a suckfest, but this is unbelievable.

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wears number 69? check

no you're giving them the ball back when you're running out of time so you think it's better to give them the ball at the 1

the challenge will keep it a 2 possession game

he says a lot of creepy things "this guy will blast you... and like it"

not even close to being a fumble

what a nightmare

jason bartlett

time to mute the tv

are you sure

i think the only other time i saw it was when urlacher did it.

that was pretty badass

It's also just not that big of a deal. Losing 2 very good hitting coaches in one year for no reason is a pretty big deal.

highly skewed due to your arbitrary start and end points And his first six starts stats that NPC posted are highly skewed by Smoltz's ridiculously good first two starts. My point was that some people were freaking out that Smoltz had two great starts right after going to the Cardinals and started spouting all of that pixie dust BS but since then he's been average at best. His two starts against the Brewers (4 ER in 6 IP and 3 ER in 5 IP) were below average, though his WHIP and K's were solid. He had solid starts against the Cubs and Houston before getting lit up by Cincinnati. So in his last five starts, two were good, two were below average and one was bad. That's probably slightly below average overall. His ERA in those starts is a run worse than the NL starters average but the WHIP is right at the average. why are you using era and writing off whip and k/bb? he has been good in 5 of his 7 starts

highly skewed due to your arbitrary start and end points

there's vomit everywhere

so we lost 2 good hitting coaches in one season. this organization is heading in a verrrry bad direction.

The point is that Lou is worried about meaningless things like RBIs while Epstein knows how to look at the stats that actually matter.

Huet was fantastic in the first period and just okay the rest of the way. He got roasted on both shootout attempts though. Overall he was pretty good.