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Q's already worse than Dye out there.

QUOTE (mcgrad70 @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 08:55 PM) Agreed. But I've never like Konerko clean-up. I like him no higher than 6th. I'd take my chances with Q unless of course Kenny pulls the trigger on a mega-star to bat clean-up. You can't be serious. He has the best OPS on the team. He has the best wOBA on the team. He shouldn't hit any lower than 5th.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 02:52 PM) Marmol with an unbelievable meltdown in the 9th!! Marmol is so prone to getting into huge trouble. Far too many walks and then he has to strikeout everyone to get out of it. Very little margin for error.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 07:44 PM) Volquez is back, and he looks phenomenal! Bad news for the Cards.

Carlos looked like crap today. I hope that wrist isn't bothering him.

If the Indians can somehow get another win here, we can actually gain a half game...Crazy.

It's okay, Nick Blackburn pitches tomorrow. As long as Freddy holds up his end of the bargain, we should get a split.

Wow, Paulie's looked terrible in his past two 9th inning plate appearances. He seems unsure and it's like he's swatting at flies up there.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 03:18 PM) 2 more @ CLE 3 vs TEX 3 vs TOR 4 @ TB 3 @ BOS by Aug 1 Wow, they really couldn't afford to lose these past two games with that kind of schedule coming up.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 03:05 PM) Choo's going to be back very soon, which is good because of all their games vs Twins/Tigers. I thought he was going to be back in September?

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 03:06 PM) Those are very intriguing numbers. But do you guys see Ozzie abandoning his beloved rotating DH for an Adam LaRoche? I think he would for Adam Dunn, but would he play LaRoche enough to post those kind of stats, or just swap him in for what Kotsay does now? This isn't Ozzie's team, if Kenny gets LaRoche, Ozzie will play him because his boss says so.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 02:20 PM) ZiPS projection for LaRoche the rest of the way: .277/.356/.498/.854, .372 wOBA ZiPS projection for Kotsay the rest of the way: .261/.322/.384/.706, .313 wOBA One of those is very good and the other is very bad, switching teams and leagues really shouldn't result in a .060 point drop in wOBA. Then you factor in the wild card: LaRoche's rest of the way batting runs: 8.82 Kotsay's rest of the way batting runs in same # of PAs: -4.52 So yeah, that's a 1.2 WAR difference there all by itself.

QUOTE (ICP! @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 03:04 PM) The Tigers played already? I thought they had a night game. WTF They have a double dip.

The Indians are finally doing us some favors. Bout time.

QUOTE (PlunketChris @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 01:46 PM) Watching the Indians the past couple of weeks makes me wish we didn't DFA Nix. He might have been a nice supplemental piece to a trade towards the deadline. I like Nix, but he has no trade value.

I'd be glad if the Indians can just take 1 and at least split the series with Detroit.

Howard is hurt until January/February.

Rafer Alston for back-up PG?

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 12:07 PM) I don't want to overpay for Haren right now either, and I fear Laroche is just a Kotsay who's had more playing time. Give me big Adam. Adam LaRoche is way better than Mark Kotsay and it's not even close.

Haren's fine, there's nothing wrong with him in terms of his ability. Like Balta said, it's location issues.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 09:52 AM) Yes, the only thing missing was a ''crazy yet informal/long read (which no one even bothers reading so i have given up even trying). What i take from that (too long of a read/what they are reading is foreign to them) is people either have extremely short attention spans, or they lack the interest it takes to learn, for it to no longer be foreign to them. Anyway, if you would like to learn some very cool things sometime soon... things i have learned from scouring the deep depths of the internet... make sure to stop by the chat during the mariners series if you can. I'm sure you would end up teaching kalapse and myself a thing or two also, which you undoubtedly would. I say this because you really do have a hang of what your saying. It's a nice change of pace. The offer is out there... it could be fun. Probably can't for the Mariners series, games are too damn late. I might be in there for the first couple of innings, but I have work early the day after in that series. So I can't stay too late.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Jul 17, 2010 -> 04:32 AM) **Patiently waiting for qwerty to give some crazy (yet informal/long read) site to help JoeCoolMan24's needs.** I beat him to it.

pitch f/x will tell you the percentage of strikes or balls a pitcher throws and it is taken down for every pitch type. http://pitchfx.texasleaguers.com/pitcher/134321/ This database has every pitcher in it. You can also look at hitter's strike zone selections and etc.

Terrible at bat.

Gordon, how do you not score?