Hairyducked Idiot
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Sorry, Colvin, the pitchers are taking it seriously now.
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Our season is falling apart! Quick, sign Michael Barrett to punch somebody! Shoot, he's in prison.
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When someone knocks on your door and offers you a huge pile of money everyone else knows you don't deserve, you aren't a thief.
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Call McLouth on that play. It'd almost even things out.
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Paging sulleymon. Paging sulleymon. Your table is ready in the game thread.
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lol mclouth lol no instant replay
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Nobody's buying at his contract.
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he definitely doesn't. That makes it even more annoying.
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Maybe we should look into getting some of this "defense" all the statheads are talking about these days. Seems like it could help.
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Because spring training means exactly as much as how Colvin did in my MLB2k10 season. And I don't own a video-game system. Yea, Tracy has been impressive the past 3 years, hopefully he gets the majority of at-bats His major league averages are better than Colvin's minor league averages. Colvin isn't good at baseball.
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Their centerfielder has good range. Is that allowed? It doesn't seem fair.
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Four outs resulting from Theriot at-bats today. That's about what I expect for the season, on average.
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Because spring training means exactly as much as how Colvin did in my MLB2k10 season. And I don't own a video-game system.
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lolcubsluck
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Name them. I bet almost all of them missed bats at a decent rate. Greg Maddux in the later part of his career (2002-2008) put up a 3.92 ERA and struck out only 14.1% of the batters he faced http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maddugr01.shtml?redir#2002-2008-sum:pitching_simple I'm at work so I'm not putting a ton of thought into this, so I'm likely to be contradicted, but that's just the first name I thought of when you asked me to name one. But when he was putting up the HOF-worthy part of his career, he was striking out guys at an above-average rate. Most great pitchers who have a reputation for "pitching to contact" were actually striking out a decent amount of guys, and just limiting the damage when they did give up contact by not walking guys.
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Marshall should be getting Z's money and vice-versa.
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Name them. I bet almost all of them missed bats at a decent rate.
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Better put Colvin in.
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Agreed. So let's normalize his balls-in-play luck. Even if you credit him with outs for 5 of the 6 balls in play, it was *still* bad pitching. That'd be 5 in-play outs, a strikeout, a hit, two walks and a home run. That's bad. Sample size matters if you are projecting or trying to find a true underlying talent. We aren't. We are trying to find out how good Carlos Zambrano pitched today. And of that, we have our sample is 100% of the possible sample.
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http://www.fangraphs.com/lgraphs/20100405_Cubs_Braves_0_29_lbig_.png One-in-seven chance the Cubs still win.
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Your attempt at a point: 1) Misses that I didn't say 60% balls-in-play rate is bad. I said you have to miss bats. Zambrano allowed a fair ball to be hit by 7 of the 8 batters he faced in that inning that he didn't walk. Any pitcher who strikes out 1 out of 8 non-walks will be ineffective. 2) it wasn't a 60% contact rate (as you first said). It was 70%. The home run counts too. 3) It's still an attempt to focus on the bad luck (which did exist) and ignore the bad pitching (which also existed). 4) ARAMABOMB!
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A perfect game with 11 strikeouts or fewer is incredibly lucky on the pitchers part. That's why they are so rare. I'd imagine the majority of shutouts have 11 Ks or fewer. Probably so. But the point he was making is still dumb for a lot of reasons.
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A perfect game with 11 strikeouts or fewer is incredibly lucky on the pitchers part. That's why they are so rare.
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What did they do in 1908? Beat the Reds 6-5