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04-10-2013, 06:29 PM | #406 |
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Damn - as of close of business yesterday, Brett Wallace was 1-21 with 17 strikeouts.
Seventeen!. The guy could have a BABIP of 1.000 and his batting average would still be below the Mendoza line. That's gotta be close to the worst start in history, doesn't it?
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It didn't balance the scales on Haren/Mulder or anything, but we gave up absolutely nothing to get Holliday after the A's gave up Carlos Gonzalez and Houston Street to get him. Those that worship at the altar of Billy Beane often forget the times that he gives up Andre Ethier for Milton Bradly, Aaron Harang for Jose Guillien and Tim Hudson for scrap. Beane effectively undid all gains he made in the Haren trade by taking the 2 best players he got when he re-traded Haren, flipped them for Holliday and then lost Holliday for nada. Beane's cosmic scorecard on the Mulder for Haren deal is little more than a couple of nice seasons by a starting pitcher on a losing team. He hurt the Cardinals far more than he helped the A's.
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04-11-2013, 08:26 AM | #409 |
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The Rasmus trade also got us a World Series Championship. Regardless of how Rasmus turns out, that is a helluva deal.
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04-12-2013, 08:12 PM | #410 |
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Damn Shelby Miller looked like an All-Star, Cy Young candidate pitcher in the making. He was in control. He kept all the hitters off balance. Not a single hitter centered the ball and hit it hard. 1 lousy hit that they just stuck out their bat and kind of guided the ball.
Problem is that he strikes out a lot of hitters and because they can't center the ball get a lot of fouls balls. Even though he was cruising he threw 113 pitches in 7 innings, almost 80% were strikes. What can they do about that style so he can make it deeper into games?
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04-12-2013, 08:20 PM | #411 | |
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04-12-2013, 08:24 PM | #412 |
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Welp, here comes Semtex Boggs.
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04-12-2013, 08:31 PM | #413 |
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Apparently Boggs' control with a beard trimmer is as adroit as his control on the mound.
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04-12-2013, 08:32 PM | #415 |
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Right down the ****ing middle. Jesus, this guy is straight ass.
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Cliffs Notes: 20 straight retired. Boggs gets the first guy out, then walks the next hitter on five pitches all over the world, gets the next guy 1-2, then putts a meatball right down the middle for another hit. Now Braun is up as the go-ahead run.
Boggs just threw a belt high slider on 1-2 that Braun mistimed and fouled off. Spikes the 1-2 pitch in the dirt. We escape. Thank ****.
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04-12-2013, 08:34 PM | #417 |
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Definitely not turning the TV on.
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04-12-2013, 08:35 PM | #418 |
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****ing Braun is so far off the plate he may as well be in the dugout.
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04-12-2013, 08:35 PM | #419 |
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Braun gifted him a K
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04-12-2013, 08:37 PM | #420 |
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Whew. Good game. 1 run in the last 3 starts by the starters.
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