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QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 02:21 AM) That may be why he has only two walks in all those plate appearances, right. His career walks to strikeouts are as bad as anybody in baseball. How do you account for his lousy walk to strikeout ratio last year. He looks like a clown up there using that big bat. He took a decent number of walks in all those at bats last year?? For a non power guy?? And the point of my post was he had no chance in hell to get a hit off a good closer. None. Oh wait, he was 1-for-7 against him coming in. He had a slight prayer to get a hit. Rivera's not just any regular closer though. Expecting him to hit a game-tying home run against Rivera isn't exactly realistic.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 02:05 AM) We can agree to disagree. That bat is too f***ing big for a guy like Teahen. And how come all his supporters won't comment on those stats I provided about how his strikeout to walk ratio is about as bad as it gets? The guy is a horrible fielder and a crummy hitter. He's hitting .364 since he's come back, that's probably why he has 2 walks in that time. When you're getting base hits, you will walk less. Teahen has a 10.4% BB% this year, that's above average. He's not a crummy hitter, he's a very average hitter. On this team, that has value since we lack good left handed hitters.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 01:24 AM) Why don't you read my posts closer to get the points I'm trying to make? I'm not going to defend myself, too much energy involved tonight after a s***ty loss. The fact that you bring up Teahen uses too big of a bat makes me scratch my head. That shouldn't be the point. In fact, a bigger, heavier bat helps him make harder contact. Are you trying to say Mark Teahen isn't strong enough? He's strong enough, the guy's body looks disproportionate, he has upper body strength. In this case, you're trying to get more energy into your swing, so the heavier the mass of the bat, the more likely you are going to get more kinetic energy since KE = 1/2(mass)(velocity)^2. Yes, the velocity, or bat speed, is far more important since it is squared, but I think we've gone over the fact that Teahen isn't weak (or weak looking). Yes, I understand that bat speed comes from your entire body, not just your upper body and from a power perspective, Teahen is an average power hitter. But to say he should use a lighter bat probably won't even help him. Besides, Teahen's hitting .364 with a 1.006 OPS ever since he's come back from the DL. He's been hitting well lately.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 28, 2010 -> 11:48 PM) One of the best? He's beyond a shadow of a doubt the best closer to ever live. I'm trying to not speak in absolute terms today.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 28, 2010 -> 02:41 PM) From Peter Gammons' twitter..... pgammo One club's defensive metrics has Alexei Ramirez "far and away" the best defensive SS in AL this season. Every defensive metric alive has Alexei as the best defensive SS in the AL, if not in all of baseball.

How can you blame Teahen for not getting a hit off Rivera? Seriously...how? Left handed hitters hit .198 off of Rivera throughout his career. It doesn't matter who is hitting, more likely than not, a left handed hitter will fail to get a hit 80% of the time when they face Rivera. And anybody who fails more than 80% at getting hits is a bad hitter. So Mark Teahen is not alone and you can't say he f***ed up because he couldn't get a hit off of one of the best closers of all time. You can hate on Mark Teahen, he's not a great player by any means, but saying he sucks because he can't get a hit off of Rivera is unfair.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 28, 2010 -> 08:52 PM) Have yourself a game Andruw! I think I am the only one still watching, but when I finally get a game on TV here at school, I am going to watch it all the way! It's like he thinks he's facing Javier Vazquez or something. The mere presence of Javy anywhere near him will make him exponentially better.

That's pretty much game.

Johnny's at it again.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Aug 28, 2010 -> 06:53 PM) Should have traded him for Adrian Gonzalez back in March. Hindsight being 20/20 and all. My god people, it's one start. Danks is a very good pitcher.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 28, 2010 -> 06:52 PM) The sad thing is, I'd actually just finished typing a post saying that Johnny had thrown some solid pitches this game...those first 2 pitches to Thames were really, really good. He's struck out a ton of guys already, but the mistake pitches...the walks...ugh...there's got to be a mental/focus thing here. Yeah, he's had the put-away pitch, but he's been f***ing around after getting ahead and made three really bad pitches. It's just one of those starts I guess.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 28, 2010 -> 05:20 AM) It was just a bad day for chw with all the bad worded post. I'm sure he'll bounce back nicely tomorrow. (or technically today) I was getting ready to party, so yeah...

What the hell? Three two run homers now...

Danks doesn't have it tonight.

Win series today, sweep with Manny tomorrow.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 28, 2010 -> 06:41 AM) Some fan you are. You were saying before last night's game that we would lose and Freddy had no chance. Why bother watching and coming in here with all of your negativity?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 28, 2010 -> 09:17 AM) I've always thought Fuentes throws like a girl. Am I the only one? Not at all. He does throw weird.

QUOTE (Real @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 06:51 PM) Twins get fuentes His option automatically kicks in after 55 games finished. Hmmm...

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 06:04 PM) Do you honestly think the voters are going to say to themselves, "Well, it's really close between the two, but Josh has the higher WAR. So I'll vote for him." Don't get me wrong. I totally understand what you're saying. But sabermetrics aren't quite that mainstream yet. In this case, the voters don't need WAR. They can look at the normal offensive numbers are recognize that Cabrera and Hamilton are both hitting at a similar level. Then of course, Hamilton obviously has the better reputation as a defender. They can get it right without WAR.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:08 PM) Everyone will agree on that. I just think there's zero way to say that AJ cheated Now that I think about it, I should reword my original post about that. A.J.'s pretty much known as somebody who will bend the rules or try go get around them. Maybe even "dirty" if you want to go that far. And all of that has to do with morality - is he doing the right thing by doing such things? You can also relate that to PEDs, as in, are these players doing the right thing by taking PEDs? Both have a moral aspect to it, yet Greg is fine with A.J., but not so much with the latter group.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 01:48 PM) Damn.. many saw it comming. I was shocked to hear it, but I wasn't surprised. Huge blow for the Nats and for baseball. I thought it was more the elbow than the forearm when I saw that pitch. As ptatc pointed out before, Strasburg's mechanics are much worse than Sales. I hope for his sake, he still regains that velocity back after Tommy John. Not EVERY pitcher does. Sale's mechanics are better. But I think for his sake, he should stay in the bullpen for now.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:59 PM) Honestly you really can't, since your the only one who thinks it is/was cheating. I personally don't think it is cheating, that's why I said you COULD argue either way. I've heard a million different view points on this topic, and everybody has a different perspective on what cheating is in baseball. It's a debatable topic. At the least, you can call the A.J. incident extremely controversial.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:58 PM) I'd embrace it. From what I understand, our team was probably the cleanest World Series winner overall in that decade. I don't think Boston fans care less that their two most dangerous hitters were cheaters. I had a Yankees fan tell me that the 09 WS was tainted because A-Rod was on the team. I laugh about that all the time.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:53 PM) So, you think AJ knew for sure that the ball was caught and still ran? How many times do we see that happen anyway? I think it's pretty often, a guy comes anywhere close to trapping it and the batter forces the guy to throw to 1b just on the off chance they throw it away. He could have. I'm not in his mind, but knowing A.J., it's not entirely impossible.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:54 PM) Take a look at the video again. He actually took a step or two toward the dugout, then realized Paul didn't tag him out (which usually all catchers do when a ball hits or comes close to hitting the dirt to avoid confusion) That is more equivalent to A.J.'s I.Q. (and Eddings f*** up) than it is cheating. Hell if Crede doesn't get that hit (and Ozuna doesn't steal that base) Angels fans would never bring it up. Like I said, you can argue both ways on this. What you just said can be interpreted as him coming up with some weird ass idea after he knew he was out.