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QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ May 30, 2009 -> 11:40 AM)
Yeah, I remember that as depression, they don't give details, but it sounded like he got real bad

 

Greinke was diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder and depression.

 

Not unusual to see those two things occur together.

 

 

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QUOTE (santo=dorf @ May 29, 2009 -> 07:47 PM)
Chris Davis: 0-4 4 K's, 75 K's in 162 at-bats so far this year. Still has to play in game 2 right now.

 

EDIT: Game 2, 0-3, 2 K's. 77 K's in 165 at-bats.

I never understood why Hawk drooled over this guy so much. He's a bad player. He's got some big time pop, but he only makes contact a little over half the time. At best, he's a backup CI who can pinch hit late in a game when you need a home run.

 

With Smoak tearing up AA, odds are he could be called up soon.

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Pujols currently has more RBIs (122) with the bases loaded than he does plate appearances (118). This is an extremely rare occurence, to say the least.

 

Also, jose paniagua is one of only nine pitchers to balk in their first two games, all nine coincidentially made their debuts in the national league.

 

Bartolo colon had a string of 30 starts from 2004-06-06 until 2005-05-07 in which he recorded a decision. This ties him for the 14th longest such streak. Colon is the last pitch to do this since ron guidry from 1983-04-12 1984-04-03. Colon had 1 complete game during this time span, the next lowest during any given streak was 11 by stan bahnsen from 1973-05-30 until 1974-04-06. Colon was 18-12 during that span. Fergie jenkins tops the list with 63 straight decisions from 1970-04-22 until 1971-08-07, in which he went 40-23, threw 46 complete games, for a grand total of 518 innings.

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QUOTE (BearSox @ May 30, 2009 -> 02:26 PM)
I never understood why Hawk drooled over this guy so much. He's a bad player. He's got some big time pop, but he only makes contact a little over half the time. At best, he's a backup CI who can pinch hit late in a game when you need a home run.

 

With Smoak tearing up AA, odds are he could be called up soon.

Same reason he drools over Gomez I guess.

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QUOTE (qwerty @ May 31, 2009 -> 04:05 AM)
Pujols currently has more RBIs (122) with the bases loaded than he does plate appearances (118). This is an extremely rare occurence.

 

Also, jose paniagua is one of only nine pitchers to balk in their first two games, all nine coincidentially made their debuts in the national league.

Alexei Ramirez - 25 PAs, 30 RBIs

 

Obviously not trying to compare Alexei to the best offensive player in the game, but just saying, yeah I love Alexei when the bases are loaded.

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QUOTE (lostfan @ May 31, 2009 -> 03:50 AM)
Alexei Ramirez - 25 PAs, 30 RBIs

 

Obviously not trying to compare Alexei to the best offensive player in the game, but just saying, yeah I love Alexei when the bases are loaded.

I meant to put with ''a substantial amount of plate appearances''. I f***ed that up. From 25 to 50, 50 to 100, 100 to 200, etc, is simply a ginormous difference.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12 active hitters (they have all played at some point this season) have more strikeouts in their careers than base hits. All of these hitters have more than than 250 hits and less than 2100 hits... so who are they? There are 5 players that i would be shocked if they are not guessed correctly.

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QUOTE (qwerty @ May 31, 2009 -> 05:29 AM)
I meant to put with ''a substantial amount of plate appearances''. I f***ed that up. From 25 to 50, 50 to 100, 100 to 200, etc, is simply a ginormous difference.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12 active hitters (they have all played at some point this season) have more strikeouts in their careers than base hits. All of these hitters have more than than 250 hits and less than 2100 hits... so who are they? There are 5 players that i would be shocked if they are not guessed correctly.

Jim Thome is one without a doubt, I'd also guess Ryan Howard and Nick Swisher. Does Juan Uribe count?

 

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I expected a breakout year from Adam Jones but I was thinking more along the lines of about a .290 average, 3-4 homers, and about a .850 OPS going into the summer. I didn't notice that he had 11 HRs. I didn't even know he has that much power potential.

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QUOTE (qwerty @ May 31, 2009 -> 04:29 AM)
12 active hitters (they have all played at some point this season) have more strikeouts in their careers than base hits. All of these hitters have more than than 250 hits and less than 2100 hits... so who are they? There are 5 players that i would be shocked if they are not guessed correctly.

Your parameters seem off to me. Because . . .

 

Tony Clark

David Ross

Mark Reynolds

Carlos Pena

Miguel Olivo

Jim Thome

BJ Upton

Bill Hall

Adam Dunn

Wilson Betemit

Russell Branyan

Nick Swisher

Jose Bautista

Ryan Howard

Chris Young

Jason LaRue

Jack Cust

Rickie Weeks

Brandon Inge

Johh Buck

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Is there a more underrated player in all of baseball right now than Adrian Gonzalez ( he hit his ML leading 20th HR yesterday)? This dude is fantastic. He's surrounded by a bunch of scrubs (other than Scott Hairston), and he's putting up ridiculous MVP-like numbers playing half his games in the most pitcher-friendly ballpark in baseball. Why this guy doesn't get the 2001-2004 Bonds treatment is beyond me.

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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 1, 2009 -> 01:06 AM)
Is there a more underrated player in all of baseball right now than Adrian Gonzalez ( he hit his ML leading 20th HR yesterday)? This dude is fantastic. He's surrounded by a bunch of scrubs (other than Scott Hairston), and he's putting up ridiculous MVP-like numbers playing half his games in the most pitcher-friendly ballpark in baseball. Why this guy doesn't get the 2001-2004 Bonds treatment is beyond me.

He doesn't get the Bonds treatment because no one else is gonna make him pay for doing so & even if they pitch to him, it's likely that he'll be the only one contributing something to the team.

 

Frankly, if I'm San Diego this is the guy I try to move. I would think he would bring you more back than Peavy would at this point.

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QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Jun 1, 2009 -> 01:50 AM)
He doesn't get the Bonds treatment because no one else is gonna make him pay for doing so & even if they pitch to him, it's likely that he'll be the only one contributing something to the team.

 

Frankly, if I'm San Diego this is the guy I try to move. I would think he would bring you more back than Peavy would at this point.

 

They aren't interested in rebuilding, they are interested in shedding salary. Peavy averages like $17+ mill per season over the next 3 plus the $22 mill option or a $4 mill buyout; that's about twice per season than what Adrian Gonzalez is going to make in the next 3 years combined.

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QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 31, 2009 -> 07:57 PM)
Your parameters seem off to me. Because . . .

 

Tony Clark

David Ross

Mark Reynolds

Carlos Pena

Miguel Olivo

Jim Thome

BJ Upton

Bill Hall

Adam Dunn

Wilson Betemit

Russell Branyan

Nick Swisher

Jose Bautista

Ryan Howard

Chris Young

Jason LaRue

Jack Cust

Rickie Weeks

Brandon Inge

Johh Buck

 

Like i told kalapse earlier today... i screwed this up.

 

It is supposed to be all non-pitchers to have 100+ strikeouts compared to hits... and there are only eleven currently... though dave ross will make twelve any day now. Ross has 267 hits compared to 366 strikeouts.

 

So sorry.

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QUOTE (tommy @ Jun 2, 2009 -> 11:16 PM)
SPLITS G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS

Season 32 83 5 26 5 1 0 9 3 15 0 1 .313 .333 .398 .731

 

Certain 3B in NL

 

Guess who?

close to Juan's, but they're not, unless those are after today's game, nope the 1 strikeout would take him out of that running

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does anyone else find it sad that Roy Halladay's 133 pitches thrown tonight is the most by any pitcher in the MLB since last year?

 

Hawk and Stone were talking about it today, and it's really stupid how pitchers are babied now and in result, some pitchers actually lose stuff and have their arms weakened.

 

I agree with Stone 100%. While maybe you shouldn't work pitchers as much as you did 20-30 years ago and beyond, there's no reason why pitchers shouldn't be able to average at least 120 pitches a game and even get up into the 150 range. I understand you want to be cautious with all the money that goes to pitchers, but more and more teams will hopefully go to a more old school way of thinking when it comes to developing pitchers. With guys right out of high school, you could/should baby them some. However, once they turn 20 or 21, there is no reason why they can't average 120 a game and not only stay healthy but build up their arm.

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