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I am surprised that Ozzie playe Quentin over Brian in this game. Wonder what happens when Owens is back

I think it was a toss-up really.

 

BTW I think if anyone gets sent down it should be Alexei. It's not going to hurt him.

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Wouldn't it be nice if Uribe could have his annual one good month in April this year?

Then it'll look like he's turned a corner, and with his inflated value we can trade him for Roberts straight up.

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Uribe batting w/2 outs in the 9th = Anderson will have to wait for that first AB of '08.

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Agree. We may have overpaid but I don't want to see the Aardsmas and Buckviches anymore.

What do you mean, I thought it was awesome when Buckvich would be called in to get a right-handed batter out and he'd hit the guy instead.

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Never being one to like upsetting the balance of thing, Uribe strikes out again.

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Danks deserved better in this game, 1 f'ing run support...

Sounds exactly like how his team did him last year and why it took him so long to get a MLB win. Mediocre to bad defense, non-existent run support.

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Looks like Swisher showed why Anderson needs to be in CF

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Danks is da man...get him a couple insurance runs and lets get on a winning streak. Detroit is beatable and I think we're gonna miss Verlander aren't we?

I don't know the numbers but I'm pretty sure we actually own Verlander usually.

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Crede is a pure guess hitter. If he gets a pitch and guesses right he gets a hit. Uribe is the same thing.

 

Did the 3B Umpire blow the strike call?

 

Ok Danks you got your run.

Uribe actually doesn't guess, he just swings really hard at random places and if the ball happens to be there it leaves the park or is a deep line drive.

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So what's the difference between weak popups to the right side and striking out?

When the hell did I say there wasn't?

 

Are you trying to set up some more Fields vs. Crede nonsense?

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Since when is striking out such a horrible thing? I'd rather have him swing hard and see the ball jump off of his bat when he makes contact. It's better than seeing Crede drop his back on every swing and pop up to the right side.

Since about the time baseball was invented, I think

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Like a couple of years ago when Freddy Garcia had a no hitter and Jaque Jones hit a home run and we lost 1-0

We actually won a game like that in '06 too (Jim Thome)

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If Danks keeps up his current pace for a couple more innings eventually you guys are gonna have to stop... you know... mentioning it.

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Gameday Audio is a good minute behind the live broadcasts and Gameday stats.

Yahoo sports is still on Thome batting in the 1st.

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So, does this mark the official beginning of BA in the doghouse? Swisher in CF over BA (and not LF)? I don't get it.

I think it's just as simple as them giving Quentin a real look before Anderson, I wouldn't say Anderson is in the doghouse yet. It's not like they're starting Erstad or Macowiak over him in CF. It's Swisher.

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Uribe bats ninth. For a guy who is so bad, he drove in 10 less runs than the almighty run machine, Nick Swisher last year, while batting ninth on a team with perhaps the worst offense in the league.

Swisher will have more hits, doubles, and home runs than Uribe.

 

This makes any RBI comparisons completely ridiculous and irrelevant unless Uribe has a better ability to simply will runners on when he's batting than Swisher does.

[Positive Catch All]

They commented on the radio broadcast yesterday that AJ wanted to "lead the league in hitting" this year. That may be a bit of a stretch, but hopefully it shows where his focus is going to be.

From my observations, when he makes a deliberate attempt to hit for more power, his batting average drops considerably. I'd rather have the AJ who hits .317 with 12 HRs than the AJ who hits .253 with 22 HRs.

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Whatever he decides, I want to see his reason for it at least before taking the opinion of a liberal blogger as gospel.

[Positive Catch All]

I hope AJ keeps hitting. He looks like a completely different batter. He was one of the guys that needed to improve this year.

 

Now if we can get Quentin or Anderson in there, move Ramirez to 2B while dropping Uribe, then swap Fields with Crede, our lineup becomes pretty solid 1-9.

 

BTW, AJ currently leads the league in batting and Thome leads in HRs. YES!

Still, if I ever see AJ strike out on that damn uppercut swing with the bases loaded or runners on 2nd and 3rd, I'm gonna go Michael Barrett on his ass.

 

That being said, AJ is a .300 hitter when he wants to be.

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Don't we have a place like this already? It's called "Pale Hose Talk" if I'm not mistaken.

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I don't disagree, but the Ozuna hype on these boards gets ridiculous at times. There's a reason he's a backup.. he's not a good player.

 

Don't get me wrong, neither is Uribe, but given his power when he does make contact with the ball, there isn't going to be a huge difference between the two starting.

I don't really understand why people want Ozuna starting either, he's fine where he is as either a sparkplug or a stopgap. But when he is thrown into a full-time role his weaknesses get exposed.

[That Was Not As Good Of A Game... The Semi-Positive Postgame Thread]

Add to it that Owens is a worse defender than Anderson is in CF

Owens, plus about 95% of the rest of Major League Baseball

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A win... please. I'm tired of these losses.

Something tells me you won't see any extra life with Ozuna in the lineup, unless you want someone that'll run really hard to first while grounding out.

The difference between Ozuna and Uribe at the plate is that Ozuna actually makes contact sometimes instead of whiffing so hard at a pitch above his eye level that he blows a hat off a nearby fan's head.

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Nearly everyone on here is upset with Ramirez right now, but I think we need to step back and realize that we're not mad at him, but rather the position he's been put in.

This type of rational thinking and logic doesn't apply to Jerry Owens for the most part. I don't really expect it to be any different for Ramirez unless he all of a sudden gets hot.

 

Poor guy.

[That Was Not As Good Of A Game... The Semi-Positive Postgame Thread]

Congrats to Ramirez on getting his first hit. I might be annoyed with him right now, but it doesn't mean I won't like him throughout his Sox career.

Ramirez will eventually be good but as of right now he just plain looks like he's not ready.