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Rios has had some bad luck this year. BABIP since 2006 2006: .346 2007: .324 2008: .335 2009: .291 His career LD% is 20.2%. It's at 18.1% this year, it's cost him around 5-6 hits because of that. He'd be hitting around .275 if his LD% was at career norm. Add in some other factors and he's probably hitting .285 instead of .262. Also, moving to the Cell, where the FB/HR rate is 11% will be a 2.5% increase from Rios' career FB/HR rate of 8.6%. That alone should give Rios at least 5 home runs if he were to call the Cell his home. He also doesn't play against the Yankees, Red Sox, and Rays a combined 57 times anymore. That's three contenders with great pitching staffs. I easily see Rios hitting .300 for us with 25-28 home runs and a stellar glove in center field next year.

This team also looks asleep against bad teams.

Our bullpen gave up 4 runs. We lost by 4. There ya go.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 9, 2009 -> 03:54 PM) Yep UZR/150: -31.0 Brad Hawpe -19.6 Jermaine Dye -10.8 Bobby Abreu Brad Hawpe should be a 1B, same with Dye.

Would have been really nice to get a win today going into the West Coast trip. I have a feeling I'll be grumpy these next few days because I'll be staying up to watch bad baseball. Ugh.

This reminds me of the last game we played in KC where we had a 3-0 lead and Gavin was cruising. Then we had one bad inning. Got behind and never came back.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 9, 2009 -> 03:44 PM) He's actually 2nd in UZR behind Hawpe. Over the past 3 years? Plus/Minus has him as the worst by a lot.

Dye actually won a gold glove with his defense back in 2000, not his offense. He used to be a very good defensive outfielder.

We're going to be 0-3 in games where David Huff has pitched now. It really amazes me how we let crappy pitchers off the hook so much.

We need to get Perez back for letting him off the hook on Friday.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 9, 2009 -> 03:34 PM) Atrocious to me means he is a complete and utter stiff who has no business being on the team. That clearly is not the case in my opinion. According to UZR and Plus/Minus, Dye is THE worst right fielder in baseball over the past 3 years and it's by A LOT. He has no business playing the outfield. That doesn't mean he has no business playing on the team. He's a very good hitter. Nobody in this thread hates Jermaine Dye or want him gone. We just think he should be a full-time DH.

So much for winning this game. Another one of those that got away. When you lead 3-0 going into the 5th, you should win.

Greg was actually serious? I thought a guy with 9,000 posts would know that Dye sucks in the outfield.

I've never been happier to see Dotel.

It amazes me how much this pitching staff sucks at finishing off hitters after getting ahead, especially today.

When you're having trouble getting Andy Marte out, you know you suck.

Linebrink BLOWS.

It's either score a lot in the 8th or lose the game now.

Wow, I just saw that Jamey Caroll homered off Linebrink. God damn Liney, you suck.

Please, get Huff out of there.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 9, 2009 -> 03:14 PM) Sometimes you just got to tip your cap to a tough left handed pitcher like Huff. Haha.

Why can't Coop and A.J. tell Jose to stop throwing forkballs when he can't get them over? The reason why he was so successful in the first 4 innings of the game was because he was getting ahead of hitters by throwing fastballs in good locations early in the count. He didn't have a good forkball all day.

This umpiring crew does blow. What happened to Q tonight on that hit by pitch that wasn't called was crap. Same goes for what happened to PK last night when the ball bounced and hit him. Some of these guys are blind.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 8, 2009 -> 09:54 PM) Why is it a joke to you that I take exception to you calling Dye's defense "atrocious." It's just not. Because it's genuinely funny.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 8, 2009 -> 09:54 PM) He's not a great outfielder, but he's not "horrendous" either. Some people would love it if we could switch players every month. Guys are easy to take for granted. How could anybody blast Dye? Ingrates. No, he's really bad. He takes good routes to most balls, but when he screws up even a little bit, bad things will happen. He has trouble with line drives hit a bit over his head. When he runs towards the line for a ball, he's so slow getting there it's hard to watch. He makes some nice plays in front of him, but that's because he's had some experience before on those and because he doesn't need to do much running. Dye NEEDS to be a DH next year. In fact, he should be one now. He's been one of the worst OF in baseball since 2005. The knee injury really screwed him over defensively.