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Re: Around Baseball
By: CurtOne Date: August 15, 2015, 11:21 pm
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Ausmus and Williams should be fired any day.
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Re: Around Baseball
By: Reb Date: August 16, 2015, 1:21 am
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Red Sox with 85 total bases combined last two games.
That is a lot of hitting the baseball.
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Re: Around Baseball
By: Ron Date: August 16, 2015, 8:19 am
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[quote author=CurtOne link=topic=321.msg237464#msg237464
date=1439698868]
Ausmus and Williams should be fired any day.
[/quote]
Wasn't Ausmus supposed to be the next great manager, someone the
Cubs were criticized for not hiring? I actually have no idea
what kind of job Ausmus has done - does anyone else here?
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Re: Around Baseball
By: CUBluejays Date: August 16, 2015, 8:48 am
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He's not as bad as Matt Williams. I'm not sure Asmus is
anything special as manager, but he has a team on the decline so
he will likely take the fall at some point.
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Re: Around Baseball
By: CurtOne Date: August 16, 2015, 10:22 am
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I'm just mad at Ausmus because twice in the last two weeks he's
failed to allow Verlander to finish a shutout, only to have the
bullpen blow it. I have Verlander in fantasy ball.
Ausmus has been beset by injuries this year and uncertainties
with free agents. Losing Scherzer didn't help either.
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Re: Around Baseball
By: Playtwo Date: August 16, 2015, 3:19 pm
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It would be nice if the Nats could salvage a game today.
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Re: Around Baseball
By: CUBluejays Date: August 17, 2015, 10:34 am
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HTML http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-st-louis-cardinals-cluster-luck/
An interesting read on the Cardinals pitching this year.
Some interesting facts
-5th largest difference between ERA and FIP since WWII
-81.5% LOB rate is the highest in history. The are 1.9% higher
than the #2 team, the year of pitcher 1968 Tigers
-The Cardinals OPS with the bases empty is .700 (league
averageish). Men On .584, RISP .552
-Bases Empty BABIP .314, RISP BABIP .239
-This has been worth between 61-84 runs depending on the source
(6-8 wins)
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Re: Around Baseball
By: Dihard Date: August 17, 2015, 11:43 am
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"The Cardinals’ ERA is 2.60, almost six-tenths of a run lower
than the second-place Mets’. Speaking of Mets, Matt Harvey’s ERA
is 2.61: Imagine a team that always has Harvey pitching, on full
rest and without any worries about workload, and you’ll get some
sense of how stingy St. Louis’s pitching has been."
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Re: Around Baseball
By: CurtOne Date: August 17, 2015, 6:26 pm
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Di, the "experts" have been saying that the Cardinals will come
back to earth this year yet. Why? Martinez and Wacha have
never pitched the number of innings of a top MLB pitcher. Lynn
and Lackey both have had bad streaks in the past. If either
went down, the Cardinals will be hurting; that's why they were
looking at adding pitching at the deadline, and may still try to
squeak someone like Shields through. Maybe the "experts" are
dreamin', but Lynn gave up a ton in the first inning last week
and Martinez blew up on Sunday, so maybe the "experts" were
right. They were talking about this on MLB about two months
ago.
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Re: Around Baseball
By: CUBluejays Date: August 17, 2015, 6:41 pm
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The Cards could certainly continue to out perform their
peripherals. They did it a few years ago with RISP, but they
will eventually return to normal. The Cards are still a very
good and would be in the playoff mix, they just wouldn't be
running away with the division.
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