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Great recovery so far John Danks

I'd like for there to be some way Dunn/Paulie get to bat with runners on more often

It's like they don't know that the way you beat a sinkerballer is going to the opposite field

Great AB...you could just see Paulie seeing the ball better each pitch

Even Paulie looks overmatched. At least Paulie won't throw away the whole at bat just because the first x amount of pitches didn't go his way

I really think Masterson is nasty. He has always underperformed based on his stuff IMO

Danks is back, best contract ever

QUOTE (fathom @ May 3, 2012 -> 08:15 PM) The Rios deal has NOTHING on the Swisher deal The Swisher deals are examples of everything going wrong that could possibly go wrong

The curse of the Gooch lives on

I would bat righty against Masterson. I don't know what his splits are but I hate hitting a fastball moving that much away from me

It would be great if Escobar could be an average major leaguer

If Danks can just do what he's done for the past few years it won't be BAD in the way we thought the Dunn one would be. I don't see a reason to believe he'll regress other than his poor start this year. Danks has just never been consistent enough. Thatta boy Gordon

I'm not going to ignore the several years of being a pretty good pitcher for Danks...but it's looking a little bit like he'll just never be consistent enough to be acelike. The contract will probably be a bit of an overpayment, when we thought it could have been under market value.

QUOTE (Baron @ May 3, 2012 -> 08:03 PM) Doesnt he have a no trade clause this year? fuuuuuu

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 3, 2012 -> 08:01 PM) This Danks contract is going to wind up a bad one. The dude sucks. It's early enough that the Yanks might grab it

A changeup. Novel concept

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 3, 2012 -> 08:00 PM) he's gonna wear out the bullpen in a hurry. rain! rain! rain! Maybe this is all a ploy to keep Axelrod from starting

Who told Danks he could throw all 88-90mph fastballs with no semblance of control without getting hammered?

The one time we give a pitcher a contract....

Danks looks like s***. Again.

When/if Santiago becomes reliable (this is still a possibility) and Nate Jones gets more time on the hill, things will look better. Add in Crain and things are fine.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 2, 2012 -> 09:56 PM) Oh come on, saying that it was a mistake to bring in a righty to face the lefty hitter was far from "in hindsight" If (pure speculation) Thornton was definitely your closer tonight, Reed is your only option there. This is probably why he let Ohman walk two lefties in the first place, not wanting to bring in a righty to face several lefties in a row. Thornton only came in later because it became clear that no closer would be needed.

Just one of those nights. Easy to manage in hindsight but not a single reliever did his job tonight (save Stewart) so it's tough to argue at this point. FWIW, I see no indication that we need to be shipping Thornton out. Tonight is the only night he's looked remotely hittable.

Might as well not burn his arm for no reason

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 2, 2012 -> 09:40 PM) Alex Rios is 6'5". It doesn't appear he can dunk. It's not so much that he can't jump, it's just much more difficult than it looks to time it properly and jump from the correct place