May 21, 200916 yr QUOTE (santo=dorf @ May 21, 2009 -> 02:02 AM) Bigger fluke season: 2008 Gavin Floyd or 2007 Fausto Carmona? Gavin, as Carmona was a sinker baller at least.
May 21, 200916 yr Crazy stat of the day: Verlander hit 19 batters last year, and not one of them scored.
May 21, 200916 yr Wood on the verge of imploding again. Leadoff walk, out, walk, walk, bases loaded one out and he Ks Teahen, 2 down still loaded and he gets a K for the tension filled save Edited May 21, 200916 yr by SoxFan562004
May 21, 200916 yr Wood is really shaken up. He just can't throw a strike with the slider or the curveball. Can't believe Wedge can keep his job with the Indians on the verge of being 9 1/2 games off the pace... Looks like they might have to trade Lee and DeRosa this summer. Two outs...bases loaded, just struck out Teahen with one out and bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th. The pesky David DeJesus at the plate. Wood survives. KC 2 GB, Sox and MINN 5.5 GB, CLE 8.5 Edited May 21, 200916 yr by caulfield12
May 21, 200916 yr So Verlander has suddenly become 2001 Randy Johnson. His K/9 has to be something like 13 in his last 4 or 5 starts. This after never registering a K/9 over 8.17 in 2007 (not that that's bad) and average K rates in 2006 and last year. Performance enhancing drugs anyone? I don't think that's the case. But it just goes to show you the double standard there is. If a position player belts 10 HR's in 20 games he's automatically suspected of cheating. Edited May 21, 200916 yr by Jordan4life
May 21, 200916 yr QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 20, 2009 -> 11:04 PM) So Verlander has suddenly become 2001 Randy Johnson. His K/9 has to be something like 13 in his last 4 or 5 starts. This after never registering a K/9 over 8.17 in 2007 (not that that's bad) and average K rates in 2006 and last year. Performance enhancing drugs anyone? I don't think that's the case. But it just goes to show you the double standard there is. If a position player belts belts 10 HR's in 20 games he's automatically suspected of cheating. outside of Gagne, barely any of the doinant relievers get questions.
May 21, 200916 yr QUOTE (fathom @ May 20, 2009 -> 04:58 PM) So yeah, Justin Verlander looks amazing. If he can regain form and be an ace, I don't see anyone staying close to the Tigers this year in the ALC. if all they were lacking was an ace, then I would agree.
May 22, 200916 yr QUOTE (santo=dorf @ May 20, 2009 -> 07:02 PM) Bigger fluke season: 2008 Gavin Floyd or 2007 Fausto Carmona? Gavin's wasn't a fluke season.
May 25, 200916 yr Crede's really hitting well for the Twins now. Great move by Gardenhire batting Mauer 2nd, as they're rolling right now.
May 25, 200916 yr Twins just swept the Brewers. Gardenhire going out to argue a HBP/foul call just got his team 4 more runs.
May 25, 200916 yr Damn. I needed Cameron to get a couple of more RBI's for fantasy baseball. fielder homers in front of him making it 6-3. How many bombs is Baker going to serve this year?
May 25, 200916 yr QUOTE (santo=dorf @ May 20, 2009 -> 10:02 PM) Bigger fluke season: 2008 Gavin Floyd or 2007 Fausto Carmona? Gavin is not a fluke
May 25, 200916 yr QUOTE (greg775 @ May 25, 2009 -> 02:04 AM) I'd like to see KC sweep Detroit. With Sidney Ponson pitching? So much for that thought. The division is clearly Detroit's to win now.
May 25, 200916 yr Joe Mauer was benched for rest today. The result? A pinch-hit two run bomb. Edited May 25, 200916 yr by Thunderbolt
May 25, 200916 yr QUOTE (santo=dorf @ May 21, 2009 -> 02:02 AM) Bigger fluke season: 2008 Gavin Floyd or 2007 Fausto Carmona? speaking of carmona his line tonight was ugly: 1.1 IP, 3H, 5R, 5ER, 5W, 3K. he threw 60 pitches and recorded four outs. era at 6.42 now.
May 26, 200916 yr KC is really struggling. 4-12 in last 16 I believe. It's all coincided with the loss of Soria, though obviously he's not the reason for this collapse. It's just a weird coincidence. They are doing a promotion for a "sweep the Sox" weekend. Should be interesting to see how we play against a team that is sucking. It would be nice to get 2 of 3 versus the Angels first. Need one more to do that.
May 27, 200916 yr Grady Sizemore's hurting and may be headed to the DL. The Indians also demoted Matt LaPorta, called up Trevor Crowe.
May 27, 200916 yr Greinke can go .500 with an ERA of 4 or so the rest of the season and he still might get the CY. What we're witnessing from him has now entered the land of historic.
May 27, 200916 yr The Tigers take the rubber match 8-3 against the Royals and in so doing... Rick Porcello became the first Major League pitcher since Dwight Gooden to win five consecutive starts at age 20 or younger, and he fell a run shy of doing it with five straight starts of one run or none for the first time since Fernando Valenzuela in 1981.
May 28, 200916 yr Nick Punto is looking like a big waste of cash. He's showing less power than Delmon Young who still only has 1 double and a walkscraping HR off Buehrle (Anderson would've robbed him) as his XBH's.
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