Anybody see highlights of David Price last night? Only word that comes to mind is "electric." He was topping out at 97 MPH last night. He had every pitch in his arsenal workin' for him.

I watched a bit of the game last night, he made A-Rod & Cano look silly on back to back AB's

Teams aren't wasting any time getting their young talent locked up.

 

Smart moves. You have to believe that this recession won't last forever, and every player you can get locked up at a lower scale, the better.

Anybody see highlights of David Price last night? Only word that comes to mind is "electric." He was topping out at 97 MPH last night. He had every pitch in his arsenal workin' for him.

 

Yes, was at the game, the crowd was awesome, the atmosphere awesome. Great game.

"Death to all things flying" strikes again. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...sp&c_id=mlb

 

Too bad he's no Torii Hunter.

"Death to all things flying" strikes again. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...sp&c_id=mlb

 

Too bad he's no Torii Hunter.

 

Torii can go suck it.

Did I see that right Haeger had 12 K's?

Yes! And he didn't get the win.

 

6.0IP, 3H, 4R, 3ER, 4BB, 12SO,

Must've been fluttering.

 

Chris Young has carried over his late season success to this year so far.

Did I see that right Haeger had 12 K's?

 

I really liked Haeger when he was here, nice to see him doing well.

Anyone wanna sum up what Toronto is looking like this year?

Anyone wanna sum up what Toronto is looking like this year?

I watched them a bit in the series against Texas. They look good, but it's also early. Hopefully Peavy can shut them down tomorrow.

Anyone wanna sum up what Toronto is looking like this year?

Just finished a sweep of the Orioles. Vernon Wells is on fire, Alex Gonzalez is on fire, Adam Lind is right where he should be, so their offense isnt' great but it's been better than ours, because a bunch of trained sheep could have hit the Indians better than us.

 

They have a 2.84 Team ERA so far, the Sox are at 2.76. So as good as our pitching has been, there's has been just as effective.

Anyone wanna sum up what Toronto is looking like this year?

 

Shawn Marcum is their #1, looked pretty good in '07 & '08, then had the old Tommy John. He has done well in his 1st two starts with a 3.46 ERA, 0.92 WHIP. Luckily, we wont face him.

Shawn Marcum is their #1, looked pretty good in '07 & '08, then had the old Tommy John. He has done well in his 1st two starts with a 3.46 ERA, 0.92 WHIP. Luckily, we wont face him.

 

Thank goodness we don't, Marcum owns us.

Did I see that right Haeger had 12 K's?

 

I know the Marlins have a propensity to K a lot, but that's ridiculous.

Sunday Night Baseball w/ Hershiser/Morgan/Miller >>>>>>>>> Sunday Night Baseball w/ only Morgan/Miller

Sunday Night Baseball w/ Hershiser/Morgan/Miller >>>>>>>>> Sunday Night Baseball w/ only Morgan/Miller

 

Hershiser kinda sucks though.

 

And I personally think Jon Miller's decent.

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Joe Morgan said something about "pitching to great hitters of today like Pujols and Bonds."

 

Has nobody told Joe that Bonds hasn't batted in about 2 seasons?

Both Chapman and Strasburg had pretty good debuts today.

 

Chapman hit 101.

FanGraphs has some new defensive stats up. They're very interesting.

 

They've now included +/-, revised Zone Rating, and some other cool stuff.

 

What's great is that these are updated nightly, unlike UZR, which is updated weekly.

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/r...-fielding-stats

 

Some nice tidbits...

 

This week, Rios has made two plays out of his zone. He's made all the plays that have been in there, giving him a RZR of 1.000. With all of this he has saved 1 run in center so far.

 

Interestingly, Teahen has made 4 plays out of his zone, while he has failed to make 2 plays that are in his zone out of the 6 in total. Regardless, he has also saved 1 run on defense so far.

 

Beckham's made 12/14 plays in his zone, he's been a neutral player at 2B on D.

 

Konerko's 2/4 for plays in his zone. I think one of them was the hit Hafner got that Paulie failed to make a play on.

 

Even though Alexei had a blunder yesterday, his defensive metrics are currently the best on the team.

 

He's saved 3 runs on defense thus far, with 3 plays that were made out of the zone and a perfect 9/9 within his zone.

 

Quentin's been a -1 DRS so far.

 

Pierre is a 4/4 so far on balls within his zone and is a +1 DRS.

 

I don't know what the cutoffs were for these, but I think the last time they were updated was yesterday.

 

Anyway, these new fielding stats were available before through Bill James' site, but now they're free. They look to be great in the way that they tell you the specifics of the player. Like how many scoops a 1B made or how many bunts did so and so field well or not well. It breaks it done a lot better than UZR. However, the end result is usually the same. With this, you can dig a bit deeper, find out what players do well and not so well on and really understand the player's defensive abilities much better.

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I love watching Albert Pujols.

The Say Heyward Kid hit another home-run today. He has some of the quickest hands i've ever seen. And can we talk on how awesome that nickname is?

The Say Heyward Kid hit another home-run today. He has some of the quickest hands i've ever seen. And can we talk on how awesome that nickname is?

 

I've said this probably 10 times in the last year or so, but how bad is that Feliz/Andrus for Tex trade looking right now? Could you imagine a core of Jurrjens/Hanson/Feliz/Heyward/Andrus/McCann? You don't trade premium prospects for a rental. I don't care who it is. Atlanta had basically no shot at signing him long-term. And the return they got for Tex was laughable.

Edited April 12, 201015 yr by Jordan4life

The Say Heyward Kid hit another home-run today. He has some of the quickest hands i've ever seen. And can we talk on how awesome that nickname is?

I was just thinking how wrong that nickname is. Leave it with Mays.

I've said this probably 10 times in the last year or so, but how bad is that Feliz/Andrus for Tex trade looking right now? Could you imagine a core of Jurrjens/Hanson/Feliz/Heyward/Andrus/McCann? You don't trade premium prospects for a rental. I don't care who it is. Atlanta had basically no shot at signing him long-term. And the return they got for Tex was laughable.

 

Had they locked up Teixeira, it would have been perfect, but they didn't so they ultimately blew it. This is why I only want the Sox to get AGon if they think they can lock him up.

 

I was just thinking how wrong that nickname is. Leave it with Mays.

 

Stealing Prominent Nicknames = Bad.

Tim Lincecum and Roy Halladay are good at pitching. I think we're in for the most competitive CY tug-of-war in recent memory. I can say with just about 100% certainty it's going to come down to those two.