How to Fail Against a Wild Pitcher

by R.J. Anderson on May 15, 2009 1:13 PM EDT Comment 23 comments

I like how there's almost as many blue dots as red dots.

Relative to league average, our team OPS against righties is 4% better and our team OPS against lefties is 24% better. Matt Joyce is a lefty who figures to hit quite a bit better than Gabe Gross, and probably defend a touch worse. I'm not saying it's time to make a switch, or suggesting Gross is the problem, but at some point Joyce is going to force his way onto this team. Whether that comes at Gross or Kapler's expense, well, there's little choice there, even if it means keeping another lefty bat on the bench.

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Im expecting

Burrel to go on the DL for a short stint. And I will be PISSED if they bring up Rugi instead of Joyce. He is absolutely raking right now.

by BJ the Bossman on May 15, 2009 1:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

They shouldn't bother bringing up another position player.

Let Zobrist/Aybar handle the DH spot until Burrell is ready, should he go on the DL. It’d be better to bring up Talbot or Thayer.

by Suttree on May 15, 2009 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hell yeah, we should roster 13 pitchers and 12 position players. That's a great idea

Until Next Time,
The Sports Chief

by Top Gun Numba 1 on May 15, 2009 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sonny can PH

.900 career OPS!!!!!!!!

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

-Al Lopez

by Sandy Kazmir on May 15, 2009 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The time is NOW

Until Next Time,
The Sports Chief

by Top Gun Numba 1 on May 15, 2009 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

OH, YOU WERE BEING SARCASTIC, HAR HAR

Our roster is configured in such a manner that we could handle Burrell being out for 15 days. The biggest problem right now is our starting pitching has been merely adequate and our bullpen’s exhausted. We need to jettison Percy and bring up someone who can pitch more than an inning, but considering they won’t cut Percy, it’s probably a better fit just to bring up Talbot when Burrell goes on the DL.

Titmonger.

by Suttree on May 15, 2009 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Exactly

See we agree.

I’d love to carry the position player, but it makes no sense. We are loaded with flexible backups and two of them switch hit. We are okay on that front.

Where we are not okay at is in the bullpen. Our starters aren’t going deep at all and our pen is exhausted. We’ve seen some very poor outtings lately and for example Grant’s velocity has dropped. The extra bullpen arm would be more beneficial than another outfielder that probably won’t see much palying time anyways.

by matthan on May 15, 2009 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Adding more pitchers and keeping bad pitchers on the roster is rediculous. Teams really shouldn't have more than 12 pitchers.

Diminishing returns comes in effect hard.

Until Next Time,
The Sports Chief

by Top Gun Numba 1 on May 15, 2009 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think if we had it our way, Percy would simply be gone, Talbot would be up in his place,

and then we could bring up Joyce.

But, Percy is a land baron, so he stays.

by Suttree on May 15, 2009 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

This.

by R.J. Anderson on May 15, 2009 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Of course

Our assumption is that we are stuck with Percival and Wheeler

Technically one of them doesn’t even count as a pitcher and the other one is maybe a half of a pitcher. So really we may have 13 bodies but only 11.5 pitchers.

by matthan on May 15, 2009 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Get Fay Vincent on the horn and let him know

-Al Lopez

by Sandy Kazmir on May 15, 2009 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ill give you that.

I just have a jones for Joyce and wanna see that man come up and hit. But lets start the free Dale Thayer chants now.

by BJ the Bossman on May 15, 2009 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Disappointed at the lack of "The time is NOW Joe!!!"

by R.J. Anderson on May 15, 2009 3:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It's Madden

get it right

-Al Lopez

by Sandy Kazmir on May 15, 2009 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

...

The Time is NOW!

by rglass44 on May 15, 2009 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I can't remember so good

How’d they do in that little tournament back in March. They won it didn’t they because of how awesome they were?

-Al Lopez

by Sandy Kazmir on May 15, 2009 3:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I guess the Cuse won it all.

Oh yeah… they didn’t.

I only cheer for winners.

by rglass44 on May 15, 2009 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

So you cheer for UNC?

Swav or Die.

by SRQman on May 15, 2009 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Only the very ugliest of fans would sink this low. The kind of people that never know the score

but have no problem telling you how good their team is.

-Al Lopez

by Sandy Kazmir on May 15, 2009 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not sure that right now Joyce could hit so much better than Gross

to warrant the expected drop in defense. In case people were still wondering, Gabe Gross is really realy really good defensively. I just can’t see Joyce’s wOBA being over .350 this year and the platoon’s should be around .335. There is an obvious defense upgrade with the Gabes. (Hell, over the past two years which equates to about one full season Gross has been worth 2 wins in just the field alone).

by Navi's_Navy on May 15, 2009 6:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs