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Rios' WAR: 1.3 Putz's xFIP: 1.83 You know why this bullpen is bad? It's because Ozzie keeps trotting out Linebrink and Williams instead of Santos and Putz. Santos and Putz have a combined 20 innings under their belt while Linebrink and Williams have 22. Those 42 innings should be distributed a lot more towards Putz and Santos.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 6, 2010 -> 09:25 AM) The two games I followed on-line, most of his fastballs were 90-92. Maybe they were two seam sinkers, not sure what was up, but before all of his injuries, when he first came up with Seattle, he was at 94-98 consistently. I never have once said anywhere at SoxTalk that Rauch was even a "good" closer. Where did that come from? Yes, Soriano, if healthy, is much better than Rauch. The question has always been about his durability. I've also seen those three adjectives used to describe Jon Adkins, Arnie Munoz's curveball, Gio's curveball, Felix Diaz, Lorenzo Barcelo, Nick Masset, Sisco, etc. Soriano's avg fastball velocity is 93.3 this year. It was 93.3 last year and it's on par with what he did when he started his career with Seattle.

Dye is about twice as bad as Carlos out in RF.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 5, 2010 -> 12:55 PM) Really? I think he meant up to that point.

CSN+2 reminds me of ESPN 8: The Ocho. xD

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 4, 2010 -> 10:01 PM) Clayton, um, Kershaw? Is that you? Gavin Floyd's left handed twin brother does even worse than Floyd. This is new.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 4, 2010 -> 10:04 PM) 9 run second for the Brewers chases Clayton Kershaw from the game, his final line: 1.1 IP, 5H, 7ER, 2BB, 3K. His ERA now stands at 4.99 (3.07 coming into today), WHIP of 1.70, 24 BB in 30.2 IP. FML... I have him on my fantasy team.

There's your ballgame.

Oh come on A.J. You could have gotten him had you not double clutched.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 4, 2010 -> 08:48 PM) That was a routine double play ball. Now you sound like jphat circa 2005. Routine ones are hit a little slower. That ball seemed like it was hit pretty hard.

Today might just be one of those days where you get a lot of at'em balls. Rios has had two already.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ May 4, 2010 -> 08:43 PM) Hahaha that is a truly bizarre thing to say. I have my TV muted (stupid organic chemistry tests...); why did he say that? He was talking about how the KC bullpen was bad. What Hawk says makes absolutely no sense to me most of the time.

Come on Alex, you gotta come through here.

Andruw's having an off night. He just missed that one.

That looks like 2009 Gordon Beckham.

Now Gavin's found it.

I think Gavin's having one of those games where he just gets lucky as hell. This happened a lot in 2008.

Looks like Gavin just can't have a easy inning.

It appears that this team either scores on the home run or some kind of an error.

WOOO Ozzie Ball

And Gavin gets out of it, wow.

When you can't even get Jason f***ing Kendall out, you deserve to get scored on. Gavin doesn't have it today.

I think I just saw Carlos shaking hands with kids. That's DANGEROUS.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 4, 2010 -> 06:33 PM) Is that really true? Boston fans are fairly intelligent as far as baseball fans go...they have to realize how terrible he's been...they really would be upset if the team let Ortiz walk? Everybody's calling for his head, that's what I thought. And I don't think Boston fans are all that smart, although considering how much of a fanbase they have, it's not as bad as Cubs fans.

QUOTE (smalls2598 @ May 4, 2010 -> 02:49 PM) Just saw this on Deadspin; it's an excerpt from the book Are We Winning? about the Bartman incident. Thought some of you Cub haters would like to relive that moment.. Deadspin Link That was really good. It made me feel really bad for Bartman and really contrasted him well with the average Wrigley Field fan.