Broken?

But if your gonna belly up and crowd the strike zone your better be prepared to dance out of the way.

let's play Jeopardy. I'll take thugs for $100, Alex. The answer is:

The team who's manager actually apologized for his pitcher's clearly thuggish behavior this past week

Yep. Especially when the pitcher is throwing at you. ;)

At this point in time, yes they are. And they're not the only team. Hopefully Ned and company beef up both sides of our game.

Our starting rotation is scary bad. Again, I'm absolutely amazed we are 13 games over .500 given what we have tossed out there the first 75 games of this season. If we can mend the SP Staff and get our lineup healthy and a bit more productive, we could win the Central by 10+ games. However, if we don't address the SP, staying atop the Central gonna be hard.

They are eliminating the hill for next season I believe

Sorry. Same thing happened to Rios. I wish these guys would learn to turn into a pitch instead of backing away

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ROFL

I don't know why everyone is bitching about the starting pitching so much. Considering the injuries they've gone through (every SP except Guthrie & Volquez has been on the DL this year), I think the staff has done a pretty nice job. Are they completely dominating? No. But they've done a nice job considering how much time 3 of their starters have spent on the DL.

And our offense could only muster 1 run in the first two games of this series (arguable against pretty OK pitching). But it's scary to think the names we have on offense can be shutdown so often by average and even slightly above average pitchers.

While I think we should/might make it into the playoffs, at this point I'm not sure we'd make it very far because of both sides of our game.

But hey, they're still awesome!

The starting rotation, minus Blanton and Pino's starts = 4.32 ERA. Last years starters minus Chen, Hendricks and Brooks starts = 3.397 ERA. Nearly a full point higher. That's what injuries do.

We need to address the SP issue with a trade.

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If they do well enough we can start winning those games where we only score one run, and perhaps they'll allow for ties for those games we don't bother to plate a run (because we're facing a good pitcher).

So I agree, but I don't think we can afford to not address the lack of run production. I'd say we could cork the bats, but with the way the break these days we'd get caught sooner than later.

Thats to bad. Hope he doesnt come back like Rios did.