Balta1701

QUOTE(Wedge @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:55 PM) Could there be more plaguing McCarthy than his "role" ? Well, if there is...it's not the kid's talent.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:54 PM) Detroit is playing better right now. They are playing as well as you can expect them to, and the Sox are playing like s***. That equates to being only 2 1/2 games better than us coming into tonight. I like our chances in the long run. After losing like 6/7 to the Yankees and Red Sox?

QUOTE(Ndgt10 @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:50 PM) Reinbecker is going to be a really good pitcher and so is Robertson. We are just running into some good pitchers lately. Ok, I think some of us are going to have to call Bulls*** on that. Get back to us when our hitters try having a good approach at the plate. Trying to pull outside pitches from left handers and hitting ground balls to the left hand side? Not gonna win many games.

We're 0/6 with RISP tonight

QUOTE(ThinWhiteDuque @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:47 PM) Isn't now the portion of the program when everyone here talks about how great Nate Robertson is, and how we should be afraid of the big, bad Tigers? As many runs as we've decided we didn't want?

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:45 PM) FACE!!! You are incorrect my friend. Well, looks like I was wrong on that one. Who wants to take the bet that Ozzie will put Freddy out for the 7th?

Here comes pitch 118, Dusty, I mean Ozzie sure leaving him in there for a while.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:40 PM) I smell exciting come-from-behind victory in the bottom of the 9th. Circa 2005. I smell Garcia giving up another run this inning, McCarthy pitching 1 inning, and Montero/Politte melting down in the 8th, circa 2006.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:39 PM) Garland, no matter how bad he does this year, will have more value than Garcia. Who do you think Ozzie would rather keep.....Garcia, or Garland? If Garcia wins 15, which he's at least on the way to, then he'll have plenty of value. Veteran starting pitcher with playoff experience and a WS ring, with 14-15 wins? That's still worth a lot. Finally, BMac is up.

101 pitches for Freddy. He will come out for the 6th. Guaranteed. And he will give up 1-3 runs.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:28 PM) Sweeney's the best looking hitter I've seen in our minors in a while. I'm still not convinced Sweeney's body is ready to take the rigors of a full Major League season.

Freddy has 96 pitches through 4.2. It's prediction time: Freddy will come out for the 6th despite having 100+ pitches. Freddy will end up giving up somewhere between 4-6 runs, depending on how many runners are on base when the next ball lands in the crowd.

Come on Brian, PLEASE

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:18 PM) Balta....you know better than that. Garcia's on the mound...he's going 6, no matter what. How can he get the win if he's not on the mound? I know...that's why I'm going to start begging. If Freddy repeated his best inning this game, he'll end the 5th with 101 pitches.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:17 PM) But that's the thing...we're not going to do anything to change our pitching. We have way too much money invested in them. Thus, we're going to have to upgrade at other positions, and a better bottom of the order can help with that. So let's see, if you get a papercut on your finger and a gunshot to your shoulder, your solution is a bandaid on your finger.

86 pitches for Garcia through 4. Get BMac up. Please.

By the way, Ozzie, get Bmac up.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:14 PM) Here's the way I look at it....if our starting pitchers continue to underachieve, we don't have a chance in hell at making the playoffs. There ya go. Anderson could be hitting .300 right now, and the way our starters are pitching, we'd still be on this losing skid.

82 pitches for Freddy through 3.1 innings.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:11 PM) If we only had a bottom of the order like theirs. If we only had a pitching staff with more than 2 guys under 4 in ERA.

50 pitches for Roberson through 3.

QUOTE(ThinWhiteDuque @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:06 PM) Unless you take into consideration BA's lack of batspeed...Another OF prospect nicknamed "LTP" had a slow bat as well... I'm afraid I don't recognize the reference.

QUOTE(Grindersrule @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:04 PM) I don't know what the exact numbers are, but I am pretty sure our RPG is up quite a bit over last years numbers. That would suggest that the difference is on the pitching / defense side, regardless of what the bottom of our order is doing. We're scoring a full run per game more than last year. We're also giving up .76 runs more than last year.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:04 PM) even if Cintron had advanced the runners, do you think Brian would've gotten him in? Sadly, nope.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:02 PM) What the f*** is the coaching staff doing to help BA. Are they doing anything besides batting practice. Is it time to get Hrniak back for a one on one session with BA. It seemed to work with Uribe last year. That's the thing that's absolutely driving me nuts with this kid, he doesn't look nearly as bad at the plate IMO as his numbers show. There's no amazing mechanical flaw like there is with Uribe, he's not overstriding, he's taking pitches/taking walks, he looks like he should just need to be taught how pitchers are going to deal with him, but it seems like nothing has changed at all with him this year.