QUOTE (rangercal @ Jun 20, 2009 -> 10:31 PM)
are you in a 6 man league or something? Grab Garza like yesterday
13 teams, but no one seems to be making a lot of moves.
QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 08:43 PM)
Realistically, we should be 7-1 in those games, easily. Jenks' blown save in the 9th against PITT and then the debacle yesterday.
It's not like we have been overmatched in any of those games, even with some scary-bad looking line-ups in the NL parks.
Well Win 60 lose 60 and what we do with the 42 will matter, but we keep on loosing.
QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 08:27 PM)
Our relievers are really struggling for the past 2 weeks or so. Everyone's giving up runs it seems.
Hawk keeps on calling it the best bullpen in American League, just like Joe Morgan last year.
Just as our starting pitching started to perform, our bullpen is on a decline.
QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 07:08 PM)
Do you have a better option available?
I have Lincecum, Buehrle, Jackson, Floyd, Cueto, Hoffman, Rivera, Jenks.
Free agents , Meche, Blackburn, Saunders, Sherzer, Garza, Porcello, Hanson etc.
QUOTE (Special K @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 04:06 PM)
Alright. Fine. I'd throw in Poreda too along with Beckham and Quentin to get Ankiel. But that is absolutely it, I wouldn't want to mortgage our future for him.
Lay off the rocks.
QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 02:50 PM)
Questions I would ask are:
Where does he play?
Who does he replace?
He is a good story as far as his hitting is concerned, but I wonder why Rosenthal is evening mentioning Rick Ankiel?
He plays LF/CF with Q shut down for the year and Podsednik being the leadoff man, we DFA Wise.
QUOTE (scenario @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 02:37 PM)
One of the factors I haven't seen discussed yet is the possibility that the young guys who have struggled during the first half of the season might play better in the second half.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if one or more of Getz, Beckham, and Anderson step up and play much better as the result of getting regular playing time and experience.
(I left Fields out because I think he would need regular playing time to get a hitting rhythm going and I don't see him getting enough at-bats going forward to allow that to happen.)
I'm pretty sure soon enough we're gonna see production out of the 3B.
Gordon looks legit, high contact rate, those balls are gonna fall for hits soon.