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Jake's velocity so far is around 90.

Rios should have ran there...

Alex should run. Don't want a DP from Konerko.

Hmm, Harden only got the fastball up to 85 there.

From the angle they just showed Harden throwing, I wonder if he ever gets any neck pain.

So I see that Ozzie called Beckham out today by saying "he's not the man".

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 01:18 PM) I bet you the Mariners are crying right now with the DH situation they have in Griffey and Sweeney. Why they got rid of Garko still confuses the hell out of me.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 03:17 PM) Trevor Hoffman blew a save to PIT last night on a solo HR to Ronny Cedeno & a grand slam to Doumit. Doumit hits another HR off him in the 9th today, Brewers down in the 10th. Hoffman is now 3 for 7 in saves, ERA of 13.00 I think his time has come. It was a good run while it lasted...

QUOTE (qwerty @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 04:34 PM) Baseball reference player index is almost more powerful than any one person should be allowed to possess. Its power level is well over 9000.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 03:01 PM) Royals, down 5-1, actually had a comeback to tie game at 5-5 against the M's with two clutch, two out hits against R-R-S. Would be nice to see the White Sox do that more often. BTW, Pods 1/3 with Run Scored, .370 BA still and returning to earth with an .817 OPS, which still looks good compared to Quentin and Pierre. NOTE to KW: You can thank your lucky stars it was Pierre and not Chone Figgins you wasted money on, or you would be in real hot water. Figgins will be fine. At least he can draw walks.

QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 01:35 PM) apparently Verlander was really fooling Morneau with his pitches, and the last at bat, Morneau swung for the fences and missed the ball completely and pulled a muscle. So, Cuddyer will move to first and Kubel will move to the OF (assuming Morneau doesnt play tonight and tomorrow afternoon, which I expect) In some of the MLB 2K10 commercials, they had these two smack talking to each other. Looks like Verlander won.

QUOTE (hogan873 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 03:16 PM) Aside from Vizquel and maybe Kotsay, I like it. Vizquel and Kotsay can be replaced with Beckham and Jones. With Jones in the lineup, I think you hit Rios second. 1. Pierre 2. Rios 3. Jones 4. Konerko 5. Teahen 6. Quentin 7. Beckham 8. Pierzynski 9. Ramirez This way, somebody might be on ahead of Jones and Konerko.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 03:12 PM) Works for me. f*** "protection" I want my best hitters at the top of the damn lineup, not arguably our worst overall bat hitting #2 because "he fits". I don't believe for a second that Harden's going to lay a 3-1 fastball down the pipe to Konerko because he doesn't want to put a man on base for Teahen. The theory of lineup protection is shaky at best especially when we're talking about Paul Konerko and Mark Teahen. I assume you're allergic to latex? I actually do agree with that statement though.

Had two of Rose' shots not rimmed out, the Bulls might have won this.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 08:54 PM) We're down 2, not 1 Looks like bunting might have been a good idea.

So Ozzie bunts with Beckham at ease, but not with Pierre...?

QUOTE (beckham15 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 08:46 PM) haha strike 2 was bulls*** It certainly looked like it. But eh, I'd rather trust the machine than my eyes.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 08:45 PM) Damon, Matsui, and Vlad...just seeing those three names pisses me off. Hey, now that Andruw's hitting, I don't get as mad.

According to pitch f/x, all the non-balls Wilson threw were strikes to Lucy.

That strike 2 to Lucy was such crap.

Shades of Pods there by Pierre, lol.

When Donny Lucy's the only guy with a hit so far and everybody else has come nowhere near one, you have problems.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 03:53 PM) Dan Cooper won't be in Arlington as he is taking care of a family matter, Juan Nieves will do his job. Sox are missing Nelson Cruz who is going on DL, he was really hot to open to year, that's a break right there. Who is Dan Cooper?

Give me Swisher or Thome back.

The moment SOMETHING didn't make sense in UZR, people have to go crazy and say "see, sabermetrics = invalid, ignorance FTW" The new improvements in UZR, which take positioning and park factor into account, has Jason Bay at a +2 instead of a -13 he was given last year. Due to this, some guy at the Boston Herald and Deadspin decided to say sabermetrics = invalid and that Jason Bay deserves some kind of an apology. Nice research done... Too bad his UZR in the past three years is like -30... http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/uzr-and-jason-bay/