pretty much, yeah. "fine" does not = "errorless", or he'd be a gold glove candidate. He's definitely got better range and is MUCH better defensively than Butler, and this is a "show me" season offensively for Kila, so I don't know why you think it is so weird that he starts so often.

you throw the ball around his feet and pukes all over himself

not a good thing for a 1st baseman

Dyson got a shit jump but he is the fastest dude I have seen since tom goodwin

If anyone can steal home it's Dyson

Holy shit, Sac-popup

Too bad dude can't hit

Dyson!!!!!

I don't know Ryan was so excited Dyson is dumb fast

Who ever heard of a sac fly to the shortstop?

2010:

UZR: Kila #10 in all of baseball, Butler VERY damn bad, 11th worst in all of baseball, out of 46 players.

ErrR: Butler #14, Kila #22

What we have here is basically a player with FAR superior range being punished for his range. Stone-footed defenders who cant get to a marginal ball to save their lives don't get as many errors as somebody with equal hands who is able to get to anything hit their way.

Kila has superior range compared to Butler, so he gets to more balls, but the increased number of chances also leads to more misses which makes him look worse. As fans, we often take range for granted and harshly criticize what looks like errors, even if Butler would have never gotten anywhere near a similar ball hit to him.

Of course, Kila's bat also sucks this year. If he cant hit, this is all academic because 1B defense isn't worth much. I'll take a good hitting Butler, defensive warts and all, over a no-hitting Kila any day.

w00t

Losing streak ovah

Odorizzi and Montgomery both had good days.

Especially Odorizzi: 7IP 0R 0ER 0BB 10K

Oh, at first I though it said 0k and I was gonna say...

THey knew they were just going to get out so they forfeited all of their at-bats for those 7 innings.

Just got home from the game, other than leaving Chen in to long I though Nost did an outstanding job tonight. And I'm pretty sure that someone else was wearing Blake Wood's Uni tonight, he looked great.





Oh, and Dyson is really really fast

That's bact-to-back 10K outings for Odorizzi...sweet.