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

I'm pretty impressed with his changeup but we'll see. Some of the breaking balls were a little bit ugly.

I could see him as a 3/4.

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

Thanks. I keep doing that. I don't know why. I didn't do it last year. Maybe I have some kind of Steve Blass/Steve Sax/Mackey Sasser thing going on.

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I'm pretty impressed with his changeup but we'll see. Some of the breaking balls were a little bit ugly.

I could see him as a 3/4.

Definitely his swing-and-miss pitch. I was working and watching, so have an incomplete take. I definitely saw some poor ones late.

Pitch StatisticsPitch Type 	Avg 	Max  	H-Brk V-Brk 	Count 	Strikes / % 	Swinging / % 	Linear Weights 	Time to PlateFF (FourSeam )	89.54	91.9	3.63	10.84	55	36 / 65.45%	7 / 12.73% 	-0.3181	0.429CH (Changeup)	83.18	85.4	6.99	8.13	13	8 / 61.54%	3 / 23.08% 	0.2003	0.461SL (Slider)	81.28	83.7	-3.48	0.77	14	10 / 71.43%	2 / 14.29% 	0.0394	0.471CU (Curveball)	71.47	74	-4.97	-6.40	9	5 / 55.56%	0 / 0.00% 	-0.3402	0.540FT (TwoSeam )	89.21	90.2	7.00	8.55	8	5 / 62.50%	0 / 0.00% 	-0.1327	0.429
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Definitely his swing-and-miss pitch. I was working and watching, so have an incomplete take. I definitely saw some poor ones late.
Pitch StatisticsPitch Type 	Avg 	Max  	H-Brk V-Brk 	Count 	Strikes / % 	Swinging / % 	Linear Weights 	Time to PlateFF (FourSeam )	89.54	91.9	3.63	10.84	55	36 / 65.45%	7 / 12.73% 	-0.3181	0.429CH (Changeup)	83.18	85.4	6.99	8.13	13	8 / 61.54%	3 / 23.08% 	0.2003	0.461SL (Slider)	81.28	83.7	-3.48	0.77	14	10 / 71.43%	2 / 14.29% 	0.0394	0.471CU (Curveball)	71.47	74	-4.97	-6.40	9	5 / 55.56%	0 / 0.00% 	-0.3402	0.540FT (TwoSeam )	89.21	90.2	7.00	8.55	8	5 / 62.50%	0 / 0.00% 	-0.1327	0.429

Yeah he was a little out of sorts late.

I think they got too cute with the breaking stuff in the 6th.

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Chen was solid for 5 but 5 isn't enough. Very disappointing that he gets a 3-0 lead and can't finish the next half inning.
He still looks better than Matusz at this point, and considering the adjustments he has to make, I'm more willing to cut him the slack, before I pass judment on him.
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I was at the game tonight and had a good look at Chen from behind the plate. Wasn't blown away by the fastball, topping out at 91 once according to the stadium gun, but it sure looks quick next to a changeup at 70. Boy was it fun to see the Sox get way out in front a couple times.

He definitely had some command issues with the breaking ball - I feel like almost a half dozen bounced in the dirt.

By the way, was Palmer doing the broadcast tonight and did he complain about the umps again? I remember a few calls (first base ump calling a swing on a third strike, and one awful called strike for a backwards K) that got some reactions from the O's hitters. My friends and I were laughing looking back at the press box, wondering if Palmer was flipping out again. Nothing game-changing, but still some bad calls.

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I was at the game tonight and had a good look at Chen from behind the plate. Wasn't blown away by the fastball, topping out at 91 once according to the stadium gun, but it sure looks quick next to a changeup at 70. Boy was it fun to see the Sox get way out in front a couple times.

He definitely had some command issues with the breaking ball - I feel like almost a half dozen bounced in the dirt.

By the way, was Palmer doing the broadcast tonight and did he complain about the umps again? I remember a few calls (first base ump calling a swing on a third strike, and one awful called strike for a backwards K) that got some reactions from the O's hitters. My friends and I were laughing looking back at the press box, wondering if Palmer was flipping out again. Nothing game-changing, but still some bad calls.

Palmer didn't complain about the strike zone last night. And all in all looked pretty good from the replay tracker.

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He's crafty, and can spot his FB. Not impressed w/ the secondaries at all. Looks like a decent No. 4.
I thought his changeup looked very good most of the night. In fact, he might have the best changeup on the team.
I'm pretty impressed with his changeup but we'll see. Some of the breaking balls were a little bit ugly.

I could see him as a 3/4.

I wonder if the ball has anything to do with his curve and slider not being as tight as we would like? Or is just a case where he has 2 good/decent pitches and 2 get me over pitches?

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I don't want to keep comparing him to Koji (especially since they are of different countries) but they both did play in the same league prior to this one.

Koji clearly struggled the 3rd time through the lineup as his stuff just got more and more recognizable. It's one of the things that made him such a great bullpen option because you'd probably only see him once or twice in a series.

I can't help but try and track Chen's numbers through the lineup as well just to see if there are any similarities:

I               Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO SO/BB   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE BAbip tOPS+   1st PA in G as SP 2 18 16 1 3  1  0  1  0  0  1  3  3.00 .188 .278 .438  .715  7   0   1  0  0   0   0  .167    96   2nd PA in G as SP 2 18 18 0 4  0  0  0  0  0  0        6 .222 .222 .222  .444  4   0   0  0  0   0   0  .333    23   3rd PA in G as SP 2 15 12 5 6  1  0  0  0  0  2  1  0.50 .500 .533 .583 1.117  7   0   0  0  1   0   1  .500   209

...it doesn't look good so far.

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