Cerbaho-WG

Holy s*** that ball was murdered.

Excellent job by Thornton. Six outs to go.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 11:17 PM) What's the story with Carter? What's his arsenal? Does he project as a starter or reliever? Obviously, I can look at his stats and peripherals and be impressed (as with many stats in Rookie League or DSL/Venezuela), but who has "eyeballed" him in person? Why was he drafted relatively low? Signability issues? I always look at players drafted outside of the first five rounds with a bit more skepticism, but there are tons of examples like Buehrle and Piazza who weren't high drafts or who weren't noticed by most teams (Pujols). Carter was drafted so "low" because his numbers last year in college were awful. He has an electric arm but had little control at ODU. His fastball can reach 97 but I've heard little about his secondary stuff. But just looking at his stats in Great Falls, it seems like the Voyagers coaches made some really good adjustments and his control has been very solid. His progression obviously depends on how well he develops a changeup, but you have to be optimistic about his future.

If rules allowed it, Carter would #1-30.

Probably something like: 1. Beckham 2. Poreda 3. Allen 4. Shelby 5. Egbert 6. Richard 7. Getz 8. Danks 9. Hudson 10. Martinez Whoa, I apparently like Martinez so much I put him on there twice. Meant to throw Getz on there at 7. The bottom of our system is looking good, especially with some real good draft picks this year, but AA and AAA are still thin.

QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ Aug 11, 2008 -> 08:47 PM) this game is over split is decent i guess, adios 1st place. God, shut the f*** up and leave.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 11, 2008 -> 08:28 PM) Anyone notice the Carlos Gomez mention by Hawk? I'm stcuk in Texas, what did he say?

Interesting way to end the perfect game bid.

OVA

One more!

OCTAVIO f*** YES

Well, at least Lowell is slow as s***.

My God.

UGH

You have got to be kidding me. Throw a goddamn strike.

JI JIM THOME

CARLOSSSSS

CATCH THE f***ING BALL.

Horrible. Absolutely f***ing horrible.

Jesus, horrible.

For anyone interested, Getz is indeed in the dugout. So thankfully we're not down a few players today.

Atta boy JD!

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Aug 10, 2008 -> 11:28 AM) They must figure - he's seen some of the hitters before that he'll be facing And the downside of Broadway getting rocked is less important than the downside of Poredo getting rocked. This year both would matter equally, but in long term .... you dont want to damage Poreda's mindset or his trade value w/ bad ML stats. It's time to junk the entire "trade prospects for quality major leaguers" line that KW has done over the past few years. We can see the results of this strategy when we have only one option when a starter goes down. And the spiel about damaging Poreda's trade value is ridiculous. You're saying some organization is going to go, "s***, he did bad in a few starts. Ignore the fact that he's a LHP who can throw 100 MPH and is 21?"

Broadway...yeah. This organization can be an absolute joke sometimes. Broadway since the IL All-Star break: Post All-Star 2 2 7.40 20.2IP 25H 22R 17ER 6HR 13BB 22SO 1.11GB/FB .301BAA We honestly deserve to lose this division if we promote a piece of junk AAA pitcher like Broadway over Poreda.

Ignoring everything else, we got a guy who can throw left handed for a nobody. Guess that's something.