Feeky Magee

Can Tyler stop relentlessly calling pitches out of the zone in counts like 2-2?

Heck of an outing for Cody Winiarski. 0.0 IP, 6H, 8ER, 2BB, 0K

God dammit I was about to post that Alejandro had passed Tyler in wRC+ and then he goes and strikes out and Tyler singles (also saved his OBP from dropping below .300)

DINGERS FOR EVERYONE

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 07:54 PM) Danks is probably done. Still a quality start. Danks and Quintana both 12 out of 16 in QS. Danks with a QS: 79 innings with 2.51 ERA Danks without a QS: 20.1 innings with an 11.07 ERA Quintana with a QS: 77.1 innings with a 3.26 ERA Quintana without a QS 20.1 innings with a 5.31 ERA Danks' bad is worse, but his good is better. Don't know about that, Q has had some absolutely dominating outings. Danks has avoided trouble.

HE IS ILLEGAL

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 12:50 PM) Ability yes, you have a 4.1 star ability level, but like Alejandro DeAza, you routinely post at a level well below that. I will again rate your profile 5 stars, but please know it is purely out of sarcasm!

Yup, wRC+ is the king of offensive stats, right now

QUOTE (LDF @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 07:56 AM) yeah it was milb about a month ago which I believe lead to some other links, I can't remember if those links were on youtube or not. that the best I can do. sorry. You saw Rangel Ravelo, the first baseman who couldn't stick at third, play shortstop?

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 03:25 AM) I feel like you've never played or watched baseball before. Nothing personal, but I just get general disconnect. You excuse total awfulness with bizarre stats. Downs peripherals might have been decent, but the dude was awful. He was getting rocked. When you're a vet, there's no excuse; produce or gtfo. I've never played it, you're right. With regards Downs, I only said that he's not quite been as bad as his 6+ ERA would indicate. That's no surprise when he had an ERA in the low 2s last year. It's very difficult to truly deserve a 2 ERA and a 6 ERA in consecutive years. Having said that, I also said his walk rate made it hard to cry over it, it was obviously way too high for a LOOGY. With regards me "excusing total awfulness with bizarre stats", I assume you're referring to me repeatedly pointing out that De Aza was hitting nowhere near as badly as his basic stats would indicate. I think the bizarre stats won out there.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Jun 25, 2014 -> 11:41 PM) ADA will not be on the Sox next year. He's about to get expensive, and will be non-tendered. And he really, really sucks.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 12:10 AM) I agree on counts but towards Surkamp as the replacement - there really aren't any other in-house options. Veal has been terrible, Leesman is hurt, Purcey sucked and got cut, Funtes isn't a real option, there is nothing down there. Yeah it's got to be Surkamp really, I think he'd be a bit of a waste as a LOOGY but oh well, maybe he can work his way up.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 12:04 AM) Loving the new avatar, Feeky I can't stop laughing at it. The De Aziest face that De Aza has ever produced.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 12:02 AM) June/early July has to be the worst for the s***ty teams. I remember April being miserable last year but it was June/early July that made it hard to swallow. When done right, there is moves to look forward to in July and young, exciting players to watch in August/September. On the plus side, it's a good thing this team didn't save realising they were s***ty until after the trading deadline

Hmm. His peripherals weren't awful, his sky-high ERA was due to a ton of his baserunners allowed ending up scoring, but yeah, hard to shed too many tears with that walk rate. Strange though because all the lefty relievers in Charlotte have control problems too, unless they bring up Surkamp, which is my tentative guess right now.

Lol. Oh well. I'm not gonna cry about close defeats late in games this year. At the end of the year we'll be wishing we'd lost each of these ones.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jun 25, 2014 -> 11:16 PM) I don't care. Seems like anytime someone is on base he gets out.. Can't have that when we got Eaton getting on every game You don't care that the very thing you're giving out is not something really in the batter's control?

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jun 25, 2014 -> 11:10 PM) That is horrible. I want him gone ASAP Hitting with RISP is more indicative of the sample size than anything else. In 2012 he hit 50 points higher with RISP.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jun 25, 2014 -> 11:09 PM) This team is absolute horses***, I'm going to bed It's 5.12am here, you coward

Has Abreu had more IBBs than BBs?Kidding. Just.

Link to that called strike 3 on De Aza: https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/BrBwrPGIAAEqSsk.mp4

Great play by Gillaspie but WHY IS HE PLAYING IN ALL THE TIME. "I've never even seen Hardy bunt" - Orioles announcers.

Oh. My. God. That was closer to right field than it was to De Aza.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 25, 2014 -> 07:47 PM) The fact that we're using Javy Guerra in the 8th inning of a tie game in Baltimore at midseason is just as telling as using Maikel Cleto in high leverage situations earlier in the year. Correction, bases loaded 4-0 high leverage situation...then tie. Guerra has a history of being a pretty decent reliever. His peripherals this year are ok, nothing great, but nowhere near as bad as Cleto's were.