backwardsk
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The Brewers and Diamondbacks played last night. Not sure if McCain stayed up to watch, but if he did, he would have seen Davies, Drake, and McFarland combine for 6.2 IP, 10 runs (8 earned). Drake's ERA is now over 5. Hader got called up.
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Mark Reynolds went 4-5 today with his 17th HR. He is now hitting .309.
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Edinson Volquez struck out the side in the 9th for a no hitter against Arizona! He twisted his ankle covering first on the second batter of the game. Two walks, 10 k's, 98 pitches.
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Uggh. That sucks for him. TJ McFarland has been giving Arizona some good innings.
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Sliding head first.
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Pretty concerning trend if you ask me. At this rate, we'll be looking at -2 and 12 in late July.
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Will both Givens and Bundy be 20 game winners? Lol.
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Orioles win - Red Sox lose - How sweet it is
backwardsk replied to NashLumber's topic in Orioles Talk
Nice. After Boston tied it in the top half of the ninth. -
.250 now. If it keeps going up .029 points every few hours, he'll likely win the batting title.
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So why did they only win 69 games the year before? They had Buck. They had the core.
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Despaigne replaces Chen for Miami.
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Yes, I do know that they traded for Jason Hammel. He was a 3 WAR pitcher in 2012. They also got Lindstrom. He was a .8 WAR pitcher for the 2012 Orioles. Lindstrom was traded in season for Joe Saunders, also a .8 pitcher. Add those three guys together and you get 4.6 WAR. For Guthrie. DD completely turned the pitching around in 2012. Same core position players, plus a half year of Manny, as the 69 win 2011 team. You said he played a small part. I've shown that he brought in close to 8 wins on three pitching moves. That's with giving him no credit for Chen. Over 10 wins if you include him. Is that a small part?
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Why did they only win 69 games the previous year? Duquette's strength is building the edges of the roster. Everything he touched that year worked. He brought in Ayala who gave them 160 ERA+ over 60 innings. The Guthrie trade you mentioned turned into Joe Saunders. Paired with Lindstrom, that was 36.1 innings at 156 ERA+ and 44.2 innings at 117 ERA+. So when you say that the Hammels trade was nice, I agree. 199 IP. 4.6 WAR. Guthrie, 181.2 IP. 1.6 WAR. So yeah, pretty nice. Do we give DD credit for bringing in Gonzalez? So even if you don't give him any credit for bringing in Chen, which is kind of weird to me, DD brought in (Gonzalez, Lindstrom, Ayala, and Saunders) 300+ IP that produced 7.7 WAR. I've never believed that one has to pick one GM or the other. AM did a great job of bringing in Davis, Jones, Tillman, Hardy. He didn't bring in O'Day. Three of the four I mentioned could have left by now. They haven't.
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Not unless you want to learn about how to defraud a state out of $75M.
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Weird how that core couldn't win in 2011.
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Batting average is my go-to metric as well.
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Chris Davis is not hitting .221. Duquette signed him. The same GM who brought this organization out of purgatory.
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Maybe not facing so many lefties will help some.
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He's Boston's daddy.
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Most appropriate thread for the night. To some, our squad only has two players that would make the Red Sox 25. Yet they have a winning record against them. After everything that went on this series, Boston gained no ground.
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Yeah, but did you see him take the weight off of Jones' bat? Team player.
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Outstanding
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What's up with the lights situation? Glad Russell caught. Surprised the umps did anything.
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Good for him. I like that dude. And I like the Blue Jays losing.
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I was listening to Casey Stern from MLB radio and he said Givens will be a multi-year 40+ save guy "when he figures out what he's doing."
