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And Danks always pitches just not quite well enough to win. I guess you can get away with giving up 3 runs to the Orioles, but giving back the 3-0 lead doesn't help. Then again, 2 runs are attributable to bad defense. Seems there's always an excuse for something this season.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 06:53 PM) Well said..our hitting coach has not "fixed" anyone in a very long time. I still say he did a terrible job with Josh Fields. So basically Walker's existence is/was connected to Konerko coming back....and Dunn came here because of Konerko? Two runs that should have been prevented. God, this season sucks!

Keystone Cops. Konerko doesn't cut the ball off or gets a clean throw off and Reynolds is out by 10-20 feet.

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/gameday...swbaaa_chraaa_1 Has anyone been able to get this Peavy start to "refresh"? It's still stuck in the first inning. Updates?

Indians out of the gate with an early mistake against the Tiggers, throwing to Cabrera and giving up a two-run bomb. 2-0. And the Tribe have a pitcher with an ERA in the stratosphere on the mound going against Scherzer. By the way, the Indians' announcers were comparing Sizemore and Ordonez and saying how adversely affected both were by injuries to the right side of their body...Sizemore his knee, Ordonez his ankle last year, and apparently he's just a shade of his former self, showing no ability to drive the ball at all in 2011. Strangely enough, Leyland keeps trotting him out there as the #3 hitter. They really need to get Victor Martinez back off the DL.

Is it Rios' left or right big toe? If it's his RIGHT, that's a much bigger issue, since it's the plant foot and would severely affect his power and drive at the plate, as well as jumps in CF. Where's PTAC? Is it like "turf toe" or something different? How long would they theoretically need to shut him down for him to be 100%? Is it one of those injuries that you just have to play through during the season, but where it won't get any worse but it can possibly be healing and then regress again or be re-aggravated?

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 02:08 PM) This says he'll serve his suspension tonight and tomorrow. Trying to avoid the boos from the home crowd this weekend?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 07:26 AM) I know they could collapse at any moment...but we've seen Talbot, Masterson, and Carmona all show flashes in the past. That's the talent to be a consistent top 3. Talbot seems more like a journeyman type, at least from our exposure to him in an Indians' uni. I'm more worried about Alex White or even Tomlin than Talbot winning 13-15 games.

Greg is rebuilding about 2 months too soon. While we're at it, why not make Santos a starter, too? He has at least three "plus" pitches that he can throw for strikes. It would be a lot easier to find a set-up guy in our minor league system or via trade (or the dreaded Royce Ring draft) if we're not going to use Sergio as the closer.

I can't stand to listen anymore. I'll just go walk around and hope the lead isn't any more than 2 runs.

How do you walk a guy who has two at-bats the whole month to face the top of the order? Sheesh. No wonder Jackson has been traded 4 times and counting.

Beckham's REALLY fortunate that ball didn't make it up the middle for a tailor-made double play. The Yankees have basically made two big mistakes already and Sabathia pitched over both of them (or we just suck, or a combination of both).

Well, this team is going to have to prove itself soon. If it's not against the Twins next week, the dreaded West Coast swing will do it. Especially playing at Oakland and Anaheim.

Lillibridge cost us a run, but he saved one game so hard to complain. The probable way to win this game would have been to jump out on top with a 2 or more run lead, and we just blew it. Don't get many chances like that. 90% of the time, you leave bases loaded or 2nd/3rd and no outs and don't score, you lose those games. It's just the way baseball works, especially on the road against Sabathia.

Some others I've read about in researching this topic.... Ray Durham over the shoulders catch in Detroit in 2000, running away from the infield Alexei Ramirez glove flip http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=3403176 This play by Orlando Cabrera is pretty amazing...but don't remember it from 2008 A couple of others I remember (although the parameters were 2000 onward) were Carlton Fisk tagging out two Yankees at home plate in 1985 and Ivan Calderon climbing the fence and robbing a home run back in the 80's, also at old Tiger Stadium

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 05:57 PM) Lineup positioning simply does not get people more fastballs. It did in 2005 when Pods and Iguchi were working together.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 05:52 PM) Yeah, cause Pierre has been amazing in LF. Well, if that's the plan, just stick Viciedo in LF and let Vizquel lead off, playing either 3B for Morel or 2B for Beckham. It doesn't matter. Or stick Ramirez at the top of the line-up to get him more fastballs. I would say Rios but not with how he's going now. Having watched Teahen try to play 2B and RF in KC, I'd rather have Lillibridge in the line-up (as an outfielder) than Teahen.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 05:48 PM) He's struggling cause he's diving so far out over the plate, his head is moving an insane amount and he's losing the ball at about 55 feet. It's why when he does make contact, he's hitting a lot of lazy pop ups to left field. Which is what hitters do when advanced scouting reports say they're having trouble catching up with the fastball. He's overcompensating? Just a guess, I haven't been able to watch him at the plate since after the appendectomy.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 05:48 PM) Meant left field for Teahen and I'd let Omar prove that he would wear down because Juan is killing this team. Still, with our pitch-to-contact staff, having Teahen (aka Kevin Reimer/Josh Fields) in LF and Quentin in RF, he'd let just as many runs in as he'd create offensively.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 05:44 PM) Although I do have to say I would absolutely adore Teahen starting in right and Omar starting at 3rd and leading off. 1-2 hitters right there. Vizquel would wear down if you played him that extensively and Teahen's probably worse than Quentin in RF. No thanks. The only good thing about this is PERHAPS Teahen wouldn't be trying to steal and getting thrown out as often as Pierre. Maybe things are turning around with Dunn. Yankees' announcers have the idea he's struggling because he hasn't adjusted to DHing after playing in the NL for so long.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 05:42 PM) I don't know what to say about Gordo anymore but I really had high hopes for him this year after his second half before the hand injury etc. He is just absolutely horrible right now. I wonder what he was doing back in 2009 that he's not doing now. Maybe he was just reacting back then but now he seems to be thinking SO MUCH up there that it's painful to watch. They all seem stunned that Colon's not throwing any off-speed pitches. Waiting on it, but not getting it. Outguessing themselves. He's just throwing two-seam fastballs one after another at 93-95 and not mixing in any offspeed stuff.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 05:40 PM) Pierre might be the most scrutanized .260 hitter and rightfully so. This guys has been terrible in clutch situations so far. He was even worse with RISP the first two months last season. I think he had one hit in those situations out of maybe his first 20 opportunities...something like two RBI's total.

So much for having the momentum in this series if we don't score a run here. Ugh. Colon throwing 93-95 MPH with the Yankees after throwing 88-92 MPH with us. Yay, rebuilding with Gordon Beckham. Sounds like the Royals. Except they have 4-5 hitters all potentially better than Beckham.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 12:49 PM) Reading posts about other great plays just reminds you how many there were. Wise for sure, Taguchi, Buerhle, etc. ANd how far back do you want to go? So Taguchi? Or that was Tadahito's nickname here?

Swisher.... 1) Was closer the true athletic prime of his career....younger than Dunn 2) Moving from one of the worst hitters' parks in baseball to one of the best 3) Moving to an easier division for pitching (or comparable) rather than changing NL to AL NICK SWISHER OPS 2006 .865 2007 .836 2008 .742 2009 .869 2010 .870 Isn't there a pretty big statistical anomaly there? We gave up a huge package of players to get Swisher, arguably more than we were willing to give up last summer for Dunn (Jackson + Viciedo).