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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Sunday, July 20, 2008Dodgers stun D-backs in ninth
There was a whole lotta game to this game, but the Dodgers’ season may have pivoted on Matt Kemp’s eight-pitch at-bat ending with the game-tying double. Kemp, who popped up on Brandon Lyon’s first pitch the night before, fouled off fastballs and hung tough on a curve before mashing a rope to the LCF alley. This story’s theme is correct, in that Arizona’s bullpen is now a weakness. I don’t know many AZ fans who truly believe in Lyon as a closer. The pick-up of Tony Clark was a nice complementary move, but the D-Backs aren’t doing anything with the addition of a quality arm. Gold Star for Robot Boy
Posted: July 20, 2008 at 11:00 PM | 36 comment(s)
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15 IP, 9 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 10 K.
Two wins, two saves, an ERA of 1.20 and a WHIP of 0.867.
Not as impressive when you realize who they were pitching against.
And how is picking up Tony Clark (2008 OPS vs. RHP .644) a nice "complementary" move when he started tonight against a right handed pitcher instead of Chad Tracy (2008 OPS vs. RHP .832)? Giving a manager with a fetish for veterans an opportunity play an aging, over the hill, "slugger" who hasn't hit since 2005 ahead of younger and better players?
As a starter... no.
Opponent-adjusted, it's still quite impressive.
Bitter, are you?
Reality is that the D-backs are going to give him regular starts because they think that it keeps him "fresh".
Yes, a 92 OPS+ offense in a two month long slump can be known to terrify the stoutest of bullpens.
From hells heart I stab at thee!!!!!
No, not at all. What makes you say that?
Anyhow, with Cruz and Slaten on the DL, Qualls hurt (and sucking), Pena and Lyon overworked, etc, the pen's been shot. Just what you want when you have the Cubs coming into town to face the crappy soft salad tossers in the back of your rotation...
Ironically, I believe every other reliever in the pen besides Lyon would've gotten 3 outs in the 9th today. Just a dumb job by Melvin to call in Lyon, and even dumber to leave him in even when it was obvious to everyone he just sucked today...
The Dbacks continue to lose games in the most imaginative ways.
This, of course, is a kind way of saying that they suck donkey balls.
At least they'll be pretty irrelevant in the NL west race very soon.
The only month in which the Dbacks have had a winning record was April
They were terrible in May and June, and so far in July, they are 5-9
They've won only one series in July, @ WAS, probably the worst team in baseball
They've lost a series at home vs. SDP and now at home vs. LAD
The back of the rotation is ####
The bullpen is ####
The defense is ####
The offense is #### on the road, barely above #### at home
They just got abused by the Dodgers and dropped in a tie with them
They have their worst 3 starters and a shot pen to face the Cubs
And then they have a 10 game road trip @ SF (3), @ SD (3) and @ LA (4)
I honestly don't see them doing better than 4-9 or 5-8, if they're lucky
I can see them going home from LA with a 52-59 record, about 5 games behind the Dodgers
I doubt it. That hot start will keep them close for a while yet. And the Dodgers will undoubtedly find new and exciting ways to get injured.
If BoMel does that, he's an idiot.
At least they'll be pretty irrelevant in the NL west race very soon.
Nah, they'll be hanging around until the end. Despite the troubles with the offense and bullpen, no one else in the division can match Webb and Haren.
Or Colletti will pull the trigger on an unbelievably dumb trade.
I'm not looking forward to the Pierre-Jones-Kemp outfield, with Ethier dealt off for crap.
That's impossible. The rest of the division is too bad.
And then they have a 10 game road trip @ SF (3), @ SD (3) and @ LA (4)
Dodgers have a fortuitous stretch coming: @ COL (3), then home for 10 games with WAS (3), SF (3) and the aforementioned D-Backs (4).
At worst, 6-7; best case, 10-3.
For what it's worth, since the ASG Jones has been better. Not good, not worthwhile, small sample, but it almost looks like he's making an effort to change offensively.
I'm not seeing it - still letting hittable pitches go by.
It's not gasoline's fault if it catches fire when you throw a lit match into it. BoMel was extended by this FO and Tony Clark was acquired by this FO. I see no reason to believe that they don't firmly support the way BoMel runs the team on the field.
Colletti didn't give Ethier or Kemp away to the first team that picked up the phone after he signed Andruw. Josh Byrnes probably has a tentative deal to trade Upton for Fuentes already in place.
What does it matter? The pen's been crap in their starts, and the offense is hardly ever scoring any runs. Unless they turn into Babe Ruths with the bat as well, it won't matter how good they are. The Valverde trade is turning into another unmitigated disaster...
Really? I can see them playing distant third fiddle to the Dodgers and Rockies by the middle of August.
It's all relative. He looked like he was succing less in this series than he has all season. As I said, still not worthwhile - but he maybe making an effort to change.
I'd much rather he did it in the minors, of course. The Dodgers could promote Repko, for instance - not a major league hitter, but a better fielder than Jones at this stage, AND a better hitter. Not going to happen, unfortunately.
The return for Jose was used in the Haren deal, right?
No. They got Qualls, Burke, and Juan Gutierrez.
Oh. Yikes, that's not good.
(BB-Ref doesn't have transactions from last off-season posted yet. Get on it, Forman!)
Never mind they blew all of their discretionary cash on a $30m extension for the team's gimp
But that deal offends almost as much as anything Colletti has done. Ned made (bad) deals while trying to make the team better; Moorad offered that extension as a marketing move.
That's absolutely not true. We also saved $5M we needed to fit Captain Spazz's (floppy haired hero of baseball idiots everywhere) new contract in our limited payroll.
Un-possible, however hard they might try to make it so.
Well, unless you're the Padres. Seriously--how bad do you have to be to play .370 ball in this division?
This wouldn't have happened if Hurdle hadn't made Webb throw 300 pitches in the bullpen during the All-Star game, with a knowing wink from Selig.
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