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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 03:01 PM) I tried to find it. It was a blog. If it was accurate it said that is when Detroit got involved. I would take Avi, Montas, Rondon, Wendelken over Middlebrooks any day.

Flowers, 3 straight fastballs down the middle, whiffs on all of them...... As I said before, most unimpressive .381 average I've ever seen in my life. He inspires no confidence.

Flowers just swinging right through heat down the middle.

Gordon hit in to that perfect DP, but De Aza bailed us out.

Oh god. I would say Gordon will strike out here, but the only thing worse he can do is GIDP, so that is probably what we will see here.....

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 02:43 PM) I'm from Ireland, yes. I feel like I've learned a lot about baseball but I accept that others will inevitably know more. I think Cleto is a fairly easy case to analyse though, he just can't throw strikes. Until he learns how to, I would say it's a fairly uncontroversial opinion to say the Sox should stop putting him in for high-leverage situations, no? No, it was a not a slight. I was saying for someone who came in with little or no knowledge of the game, that was a very astute comment you made about Cleto, and I feel the exact same way. They need to hone his control in situations that won't hurt the team. Don't give up on his arm, but don't put him in situations where he is likely to fail either. Build him up for it.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 02:35 PM) I just don't get it. If you want to gamble on Cleto's stuff and have him work on it, then you should be hiding him at the back of the bullpen. We won a game by 14 runs the other day and he wasn't put in. Yet he's continuously getting put in in high-leverage situations when the only good stat he has this year is a fluky ERA. (Granted he's been a touch unlucky today but he's been very lucky other days) Are you the guy from Ireland who doesn't know anything about baseball?

Well, go f***ing figure.

Welp, this AB right here will decide if I go forage for food or not. Please, just let him hit it hard AT some one.

Alexei with about his 5th diving stop this game.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 02:29 PM) This coaching staff likes Cleto way too much. That's because no one can hit off the guy. Unfortunately, no one has to because he has no idea where he is throwing it. I think they are expecting if he just throws it over the plate, the hitter won't stand a chance.

Aaaaaand, they now have a runner on scoring position due to our defense. My god, if this defense just made the routine plays, we would be winning 2-1 right now. Then again, if they made the routine plays, it would be 1-1 right now.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 02:17 PM) Six sliders in a row retire Semien. 30 K's. Holy s***, he has 30 Ks this year already? He's on pace about 200 on the year. That's shocking.

Ugh, Come on Sem. He didn't throw a single strike....ugh.

This has got to be the must unimpressed and least convincing .400 I've ever seen a player hit 3 weeks in to a season. His BA could be .200 right now and I'd believe it.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 01:59 PM) I'd be shocked if he didn't strike out at least 25 times his first 30 ABs. Woah, I'd take the under on that one. Possibly 15, although you are talking ABs, I am talking K% (which is PA).

Is there any way Beckham doesn't strike out at like a 35%+ clip before we finally get him out of the starting lineup?

Jesus.

Is there a way to retroactively view the pitch tracking for an AB? I'd like to reflect on how awful that call was.

Wow, that was one of the worst strike calls I've ever seen..... That was a fastball.....you shouldn't be way off on calling fastball locations, f***ing awful.

Hey Gordon Beckham.....feel free to go back to AAA whenever you want....we're good here.

Beckham looks fantastic....

Tank keeps on rolling.

QUOTE (beautox @ Apr 24, 2014 -> 12:52 PM) Nice AB by jose making the adjustment low and away but got blown away with a 94mph heater down the middle. Well, that can't be right. Unless it doesn't account for pitches thrown OUT of that zone, because Abreu's 2nd HR in Colorado was on a pitch up and away that he blasted over the RCF wall.

Tigers just keep capitalizing on our defense. This is the luck Quintana always seems to have.