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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 20, 2009 -> 10:23 PM)
A curve and low 90's to upper 80's fastball isn't that good when you don't have great command. Plus his change-up never ended up being good enough to allow him to effectively get righties out. Thats why I think he'll make a good reliever in time. Key word being, in time.

He's so much like Arnie Munoz, it's scary. Once he got bombed in the majors, he was never heard from again. Although Gio has shown better minor league success, I agree he is reliever, if anything down the road.

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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 22, 2009 -> 03:39 PM)
Wow, Twins down 12-1 after 2 vs. Oakland. Thats 2 out of 3 games their pitching gets demolished by the hard-hitting A's.

 

Glad to see someone else get thumped by Oakland for a change. Man, talk about a team that should be making a deadline deal...

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Angels score 2 in the bottom of the 9th to tie it against Nathan.

 

Amazingly, that DOUBLES the career runs (1) scored in the history of the Angels against Nathan....a ground ball hit up by the middle by Kendrick bounced off 2nd base when it would have been the end of the game. GMJ ripped a single down in the count on a breaking pitch prior to that...everything coming up roses for the White Sox so far in this amazing day (well, technically Friday morning now).

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The Tigers have a two-game edge over the White Sox, and despite losing three of four to the Tigers, the White Sox still improved their playoff chances by 8.4 percentage points. The White Sox took three of four from Tampa Bay earlier in the week and Detroit dropped two of three at home to Seattle. The White Sox are closing the gap on Detroit in simulations because the Tigers have more games against the tough AL East teams than the White Sox, and Detroit is 4-13 against the AL East.

 

 

AMERICAN LEAGUE WEEK 16 REVIEW PLAYOFF % CHANCE

TEAM 20-Jul 27-Jul % DIFF WIN DIV

New York Yankees 67.2% 85.8% 18.6% 63.5%

Los Angeles Angels 67.8% 86.0% 18.2% 79.6%

Chicago White Sox 36.9% 45.3% 8.4% 44.6%

Texas Rangers 28.0% 31.5% 3.5% 18.1%

Detroit Tigers 38.0% 40.6% 2.6% 39.9%

Baltimore Orioles 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Cleveland Indians 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Oakland Athletics 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Kansas City Royals 0.1% 0.0% -0.1% 0.0%

Toronto Blue Jays 2.8% 2.6% -0.2% 0.4%

Tampa Bay Rays 28.8% 25.0% -3.8% 7.4%

Minnesota Twins 30.8% 15.6% -15.2% 15.4%

Boston Red Sox 78.2% 62.5% -15.7% 28.6%

Seattle Mariners 21.3% 5.0% -16.3% 2.3%

 

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Indians were celebrating on the field like they won the WS after trading V-Mart, DeRosa, Cliff Lee, Francisco and Garko tonight.

 

They really needed that win after blowing the 5-3 lead on the Guillen homer.

 

Minnesota continues to really miss Neshek. He was the glue of that pen, and nobody they've tried in the 7th or 8th (Bonser, Bass, Ayala, Crain, Guerrier, Keppel, Mulvey, Balfour, Rincon, Humber) had/has had any success on a consistent basis getting the game to Nathan over the last two seasons.

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