Wei-Yin Chen Tonight

[Camden_yardbird]

Defense will definitely need to be better if guys like Chen, Wada, Hunter and Hammel are going to succeed.

[OFFNY]

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Chen hasn't thrown a pitch yet, and we're already on the second page of posts. Woo hoo.

[MurphDogg]

I watched it also. It was not deep at all, and the ball dribbled in on 2 bounces. Wieters was helplessly waiting, willing it to come in quicker. Cano is out by ten feet on a decent throw. And a decent throw from that short distance that Markakis threw it from is a one-hop throw, which isn't asking a lot.

IIRC (I can't find video) it would have been a one hopper, but it caught the mound which slowed the ball down. The ball was not hit that shallow.

Further, if anyone was the goat in that game it was Reynolds and not Markakis, not sure how you bring up Markakis before Reynolds.

[OFFNY]

IIRC (I can't find video) it would have been a one hopper, but it caught the mound which slowed the ball down. The ball was not hit that shallow.

Further, if anyone was the goat in that game it was Reynolds and not Markakis, not sure how you bring up Markakis before Reynolds.

I never said that Markakis was the goat of the game. There was plenty to go around in that department on both sides of the ball in that game. I made a simple statement that a decent throw from him would have gotten Chen out of the inning with 6 complete innings with only one run, because this is a Chen thread. And yes, Reynolds play at third was worse than Nick's throw, but if Nick had made a decent throw and gotten Cano at the plate, the inning would have been over right then and there.

[OFFNY]

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Lookin' good through 3.

WEI-YIN CHEN

IP:. 3

H:o 1

R:O 0

BB: 1

SO: 1

Pitches: 49 (33 Strikes, 13 Balls)

2012 ERA: 2.08

[OFFNY]

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OK through 5.

WEI-YIN CHEN

IP:. 5

H:o 3

R:O 0

BB: 1

SO: 3

Pitches: 76 (51 Strikes, 25 Balls)

2012 ERA: 1.69

[crowmst3k!]

getting a little roughed up, let's hope he gets through it.

[Camden_yardbird]

Clearly he hits a wall at inning 6. Hopefully that improves as he gets used to MLB. Too bad he wasn't in the Brady Bunch.

[OFFNY]

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WEI-YIN CHEN (FINAL NUMBERS)

IP:. 5.33

H:o 6

R:O 2

BB: 2

SO: 4

Pitches: 99 (64 Strikes, 35 Balls)

2012 ERA: 3.27

[Roll Tide]

Nice Hold by O'day ! Chen clearly ran out of gas.

[SteveA]

Nice Hold by O'day ! Chen clearly ran out of gas.

Buck seems to be pushing our starters to go 6 or 7 even when they appear to be tiring, I think he's trying to instill some sort of sense in them that they need to be shooting for 7 innings every time they go out.

Last week Chen gave up a ton of fly balls, many of them to the track. Balls that would probably go out in June once the ball starts carrying at OPACY. I was concerned that he might be an extreme fly ball pitcher. Tonight was a totally different story.

[Camden_yardbird]

Frankly, with two starts in the books Chen is not remarkably different than Tillman was last year. Good stuff, no distance.

[WEAVERMAN]

Congrats on your first Big League Win, Wei Yin Chen. Here's hoping for 100 more, at least.

[Lucky Jim]

He's crafty, and can spot his FB. Not impressed w/ the secondaries at all. Looks like a decent No. 4.

[Roll Tide]

Congrats on your first Big League Win, Wei Yin Chen. Here's hoping for 100 more, at least.

This ....... @ OffNY I appreciate your efforts ....Only thing is you have 2011 ERA and its 2012:eek: