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05-06-2009, 10:34 AM | #136 |
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It's interesting that one of the concerns on Holliday was how he would perform outside of Coors, since his home/away splits weren't that great.
I think he'll snap out of it and become the hitter he's always been throughout his career, but it does raise eyebrows that he's out of Denver for the first time and off to a slow start. |
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05-06-2009, 10:42 AM | #137 |
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Incidentally, 27 games is exactly 1/6th of the season (6 x 27 = 162). If you project the Royals with 16 wins in 1/6th, you get an expectation of 96 wins versus 66 loses. That's THIRTY games OVER .500
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05-06-2009, 11:12 AM | #138 |
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Gordon is going to have to ride the pine a bit when he comes back
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05-06-2009, 12:41 PM | #139 |
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Insofar as I can tell, we have good problems at every position except shortstop. Who are some candidates we could look at at that position? Hell just a viable option so we could send aviles to AAA to work on his bat would be tremendously valuable, imo.
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Edgar Renteria, SF Orlando Cabrera, Oak Miguel Tejada, Hou I'm not a huge fan of any of those guys but they'd be an improvement over what Aviles is doing. Hopefully this month he can turn it around. It would be huge if he could. |
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Listening to Frank the other night, it sounds like he tried to help Mike correct it when he had him in Witchita without much avail. It looks to like me like he's been able to get away with that fucked up approach, even into the majors, up until scouts got a complete book on him. Now he's screwed. He's basically stepping towards third and fliging the bat at the ball every swing he takes....... |
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Aviles showed so much potential last year and now I get that sinking feeling when he comes up to bat, kind of like when TPJ bats. I like the kid and I know that he can play at this level of ball, but he's gotta figure out how to hit the ball more.
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I'd have to look at some tape, but his approach had to be different last year because he was successful taking the ball the opposite way all season, with power at times, and he couldn't have been doing this without taking his shoulder toward the pitcher. |
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Swirling the bat around is another problem but to a much lesser degree. But he has bad footwork. He also stands so far up in the box that he can't jump on anything inside, if you ask me. |
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05-06-2009, 02:44 PM | #146 |
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aviles has to cheat inside, but not that much man. Low and away he is meat unless he bloops one in
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I agree except I think his problem is he is stepping one way and leaning another. Therefore getting no power on hits the opposite way that he actually gets good wood on.
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I agree that he's completely asses and elbows right now.
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alot of time what you can do and it looks like he is already do is take your left foot and point your toe towards the pitcher. When you stride you will torn it back but it will be so drastic it will close your shoulder
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