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He has a very good slider. Lefties historically mash him around the park, while righties struggle. Tonight would be a good night to get Mackowiak into the lineup for Dye. He can be wild, but he keeps the ball in the park.

Great win! Very solid defense I thought, and Pods/Thome led the way on offense.

QUOTE(Wedge @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 04:41 AM) The downside is that a few of these guys could/should be in our rotation in the future. Masset for sure, but Sisco could be really good as a starter, too. Personally, I'd rather keep Sisco in the pen. He has a long, long way to go to be efficient enough with his control where he can be a starter. I also think Masset might be better off as a set-up man, but it's hard to tell with him.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 04:40 AM) The control was the issue for me to. I just had images of Sisco-Aardsma-Masset coming in being wild, not being able to find the zone at all, and we really haven't seen it yet. We will, there is no question it will happen, but so far, all these guys have done what Ozzie has asked, and each one of them has gotten big outs for this club already. It's just very refreshing to see, and whats even better is that we know these guys are still young, and have room to improve. It's all about getting ahead in the count for nearly every one of our relievers. MacDougal seems like it's very hard to get the ball in the air against him. Sisco still worries me, but as long as he's around the zone, people will chase his wild stuff (like Cirillo on Saturday). Hopefully we didn't jinx Jenks, and he can make this a Sox winner.

Nice to see that AJ

On the bright side, at least Razor held up Thome.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 04:20 AM) Podsednik NEEDS to swing more often. Just put the ball in play. He doesn't have a poor swing or anything. Obviously, the biggest complaint we've had about him is his 49 called third strikes last year. I couldn't agree with you more though....when he's aggressive at the plate, he's a much better hitter. He gets in trouble sometimes when he tries to be crafty at the plate. He doesn't have the Ichiro/Pierre like slap ability.

QUOTE(Felix @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 04:20 AM) Thome answers his "clutch critics" It's the 9th inning Thome that I have a problem with. He has a lot of big hits in the 7th/8th inning last year

Yes sir! Piazza has never been afraid to hit into a double play.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 04:20 AM) You're not having a good prediction night. True...but at least I can point out he was making quite the effort to go to LF.

Ugh...here we go. Some very good and very bad baserunning in top of 8th. I love how PK took 3rd on that single up the middle. However, we make way too many outs on the bases in that same situation that ended the 8th.

Thome's only chance to hit this guy is to drive it to LF.

Good jump by Erstad.

Um, where was that pitch?

We're making hitting seem difficult. Come on bullpen.

I missed a game, but I've yet to see AJP hit a ball well.

Wow, this guy has some funky stuff. Too bad we got rid of him.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 04:00 AM) Huge K for Count. Hand it over to the pen, lets win this one. We're going to get Marshall instead of Calero. A few insurance runs would be great against the lower part of their pen.

Excellent pitch! That better be all for him. Very encouraging last 4 innings.

Got away with a massive hanger. If he throws a fastball, he better get it up in the zone.

He's really slowing up his wind-up on those offspeed pitches. With the quality swing that Buck took vs Contreras earlier, I'd like to see MacDougal in the game.

Start getting some guys up in the pen. Nice sequence to Swisher.

Nice play by Crede....that was a cookie for Piazza. Chavez is going to be sitting on the fastball.

QUOTE(rafacosta @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 03:44 AM) I don't know who has been worst...JD or Crede... Dye's been a rally killer.

QUOTE(Y2HH @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 03:41 AM) JD is pressing, he needs to chill. He's taking every pitch that's right down the middle, and flailing wildly at pitches 3 feet outside or 6 feet above the plate...WTF. His swing is way too long, it's pretty simple. According to Farmer, his swing was horrible the last week of ST.