2013 Official Major League Baseball Thread.
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First, there was the 15 day DL. Then there was the 60 day DL. More recently, the 7 day Concussion DL. And now, finally, at last, the Not Real DL. Or should we call it the Andy Pettitte Special DL? Maybe we should call it the Vidal Nuno's Made One Major League Start and is the Second Coming of Christy Mathewson so Let's Hustle Andy Pettitte Outta Here Quick As Can Be DL?
A few questions, Beav. Which pitching depth are you talking about? Phil Hughes and his 5.88 ERA? Ivan Nova and his 6.48? Vidal Nuno and his 1 major league start? Does Bud Selig know about the "NOT a real DL?"
The Yankees are in first place, barely, because of three things: Three starters, a shutdown bullpen, and tremendous luck, an unsustainable record in 1-2 run games. Their third order winning percentage shows that they've won 4.2 games more than they should have. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/standings/index.php?dispgroup=div&standings_rsort=pct3.
And they just put one of their three starters on the DL for Vidal Nuno. Right.
Actually Merlot, when you consider metropolitan area and not just the city, New York has 14,000,000 million more people than Boston. According to a recent scientific study by an eminent statistician, see above, most of them would rather drive to Trenton, Staten Island, or Scranton then visit the House that Ruth Didn't Build.
How's my biography coming? If only you studied baseball as carefully as you do me.
Kuroda and Buchholz are each tied for third in wins with 6. Buchholz is second in innings pitched, Kuroda ninth. Buchholz is second in ERA, Kuroda fourth. Buchholz is second in strikeouts, Kuroda tied for 27th.
Kuroda has a 0.95 WHIP to 1.04 for Bucholz. WHIP is the exact same stat for pitchers that on base percentage is for hitters. It is the all important stat as it measures how many people reach base against you due to your pitching. What Kuroda has on Bucholz is better control, better smarts and better savvy as to how to pitch. That is why he has the better WHIP and is more solidly poised to start the All Star game for the AL. Kuroda gets the nod at this time.
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Huh,
There's two major things wrong with these sports thread.
1. Petty childish bickering about being a disturber, stalker, insulter, etc, (for those who don't get it).
2. Blind fan partisanship.
You admirably avoid #1 most of the time, but you're drunk with #2 nearly all of the time. Oh geeeeez, another Yankee god? I called this one perfectly just two days ago. :nod: :thumb:
Everyone has, those without a poisoned agenda to taint him, explained Buchholz excellent performances through his command of pitches and pitching choice savvy, including Orel Hershiser who isn't a sold out fanboy, yet you say Kuroda is definitely superior. You expose your bias by basing your OPINION so narrowly on the very slimly favoring WHIP (Buchholz 1.036, Kuroda 0.955) where there's only a 0.081 difference, while ignoring a .21 ERA advantage for Buchholz and 2 more losses for Kuroda despite playing for a team that has won more and you say is superior. Do you get paid for these carefully constructed stat-bias promotions? You're transparently biased as heck EB, but at least you were man enough not to get truly idiotic with taint accusations...unlike others.
It's mid-May...Beav.
Kuroda is doing very well and his stats are impressive. But for whatever reason he's lost twice, and any excuse about what the rest of the team did is not different for the Red Sox. But you guys make yourselves ridiculous. One day it's Rivera for Cy, the next it's Kuroda. If Jeter happens to throw a practice pitch for a strike it'll be him next. Maybe you guys live among the gods and need to stroke their egos to be allowed in their presence. Or maybe you do this because you're desperate to motivate enough of 19 million people to go to the games. It's so bad I hear Girardi is leaping over Mt Olympus for pre-game entertainment. I'm sure you won't miss it.
:lol: Oh yeah, right Beav. When you're 27th in pitch control you're always superior to being 2nd.
Buchholz is still doing great despite giving up only the 2nd homerun of the season, which accounted for all the opposition scoring, and only 4 hits in 6 innings. The relief trio of Miller, Wilson, and Uehara didn't even give up a hit. It's also very nice to see the team hang in there and somehow fight for a win up to the end.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=330517109
MINNEAPOLIS — It was another one-run win. Just like the night before.
The Red Sox are 7-4 in one-run games and this is a good sign.
It means they are coming up with the big hit at the right time. It means their bullpen is holding leads. It means they’re scoring late in games. It means their starting pitcher is keeping them in games. It’s all good. Look at the Orioles, who won 29 one-run games last season en route to 93 wins.
And so the Red Sox have added a new dimension in 2013. An essential dimension.
“I don’t know, man,” sighed Dustin Pedroia. “Too much stress. Too much pressure. I love that we’re winning them, but I’d rather win them bigger.”
It is true. Especially winning one-run games in extra innings like the Red Sox did Friday night when Jonny Gomes lofted a based-loaded sacrifice fly to center in the 10th to score Pedroia for a 3-2 victory.
“I know it’s important,” Pedroia said. “When you come out of a game like this you feel a sense of accomplishment. A win is a win and no matter how you do it, it’s a good thing. But it means you’re doing things the right way. It means you’re pitching good and hitting good at the right time.”
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BTW - Why is it the Mets fan thinks he can legitimately post an argument about game attendance to make his point, then say the whole subject is silly. Dude, heal thyself, at least it's about baseball.
Obviously you don't realize the shame of saying so-called fans would rather stay home or watch more amateurish baseball rather than the great gods who come down from the mountain every night. Cheap tv and minor league teams for EXCUSES...OMG. OLYMPUS has truly FALLEN. :lol:
Cheers,
Merlot
Haha, Merlot. You begin your 3 foot post complaining about bickering and partisanship and you go into a dissertation admonishing Beav for his opinion and why you think his opinion is wrong taking of course the side of the player on your favorite team.
What a Classic, Merlot. :lol::lol::lol::lol:
Yankees are 8-3 in 1 run games so far.
I guess that's even a better sign than the Red Sox record of 7-4, Merlot.
And what I said about it's expensive going to a major league game, especially in a market like NY, is true. We are all not members of the 1 percent like your buddy rumps. :lol: :nod: :lol:
You only wrote petty childish bickering ... you added nothing about what you say posters are bickering about.
And 2. Blind fan partisanship. Ha, wouldn't you say you are guilty of that, merlot? You just posted a foot of commentary of why you think your guy is pitching better than Beav's guy.
Both Buchholz and Kuroda (without the cream, of course) are pitching very well.
Merlot, why dont you start a Baseball free for all thread, then you can post all the nastiness you want.
Back to baseball, have a feeling Granderson gets his first dinger of the year today. Also this David Adams is looking like a real decent prospect.
Back to baseball, have a feeling Granderson gets his first dinger of the year today. Also this David Adams is looking like a real decent prospect.
Yep, Phelps had a rough first inning but pitched out of it and pitched a great game. 7 IP, 1 ER, 8 H, 8 K. Very good performance.
Cano was hot, drilling 2 HR's and 4 RBI's. Yankees gained 5 differential runs, like they care, but that's what one well known statistician here says the run differential is what counts. Another game in the win column for the Yankees.
Poor Blue Jays were on a 4 game win streak, now have lost 2 against the Yankees. Dickey, who has had a rough start this year with the Blue Jays, after last year's Cy Young performance with the Mets, faces Sabathia next game.
Cano was hot, drilling 2 HR's and 4 RBI's. Yankees gained 5 differential runs, like they care, but that's what one well known statistician here says the run differential is what counts. Another game in the win column for the Yankees.
Poor Blue Jays were on a 4 game win streak, now have lost 2 against the Yankees. Dickey, who has had a rough start this year with the Blue Jays, after last year's Cy Young performance with the Mets, faces Sabathia next game.
Just when it looked like the BJays were on track last week they went cold again. Weird, they do have a good team, at least on paper.
According to you and you alone. The pitching Triple Crown is Wins, Strikeouts, and ERA. Buchholz and Kuroda are tied in one, Buchholz leads in another, Buchholz has Kuroda lapped in the third.
So in the last 24 hours you've invented the Not Really DL and the Pitchers OBP. What's next?
Kuroda has better smarts? On what do you base this? You've seen his SAT scores. God, the silly shit that just pours from your keyboard. Don't tell me; he also has pride, guts and determination. Right?
Good team on paper like the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Angels. It only proves you have to play all 162 games to determine the winners of the regular season. It's not a beauty contest.
The LA Angels have really sucked. Their pitching blows. The Blue Jays have been a huge disappointment and in their games against the Yankees (against which they are now 1-7) they have looked awful in almost every facet of the game. I really think there is a problem with their coaching staff but on the Yankees Radio Network today I heard Suzyn Waldman highly criticize the BJs organization. She said they have tried to build a team based totally on power and it has not worked, because other areas have been ignored and power is inconsistent. She also mentioned that Gibbons had some reliever Delabar warming up in ALL 8 GAMES against the Yankees. Which just is not appropriate. You can't treat your players like they are mules. In the past the Mets did the same thing with Pedro Feliciano and when the Yankees got him the poor guy was shot.
The Yankees just picked up Reid Brignac from the Colorado Rockies for cash. Gotta hand it to Brian Cashman; it's not everyday you can get a player with a .591 OPS.
Really gotta hand it to the Rockies GM. It's not everyday you can get actual cash for a player with a .591 career OPS.
Really gotta hand it to the Rockies GM. It's not everyday you can get actual cash for a player with a .591 career OPS.
Suzyn Waldman knows less about baseball than even Joe.T, if such is possible. Jose Reyes is power? Rajai Davis is power? Mark Buehrle is power. RA Dickey is power? Josh Johnson is power?
The Jays brought in one of the best all round players in the game and he got hurt. They brought in three quality starting pitchers and none has pitched particularly well. Suzyn Waldman is a dope.
She was talking about their development of in-organization offensive talent, not the offseason signings and moves they made.
Suzy Waldman knows more about baseball than rumps of VT. And leave Joe T. out of your insults, you cantankerous old man.
Hey, Merlot, how come you don't include your good buddy rumps in your harping about insults and instigating? rumps insults and instigates more than anyone here.
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