Wisdom might eventually find his bat in some regular playing time.

let's be fair, 14; Carpenter, accoridng to facts, has not performed well with men on so far this year.

"Of course, I’d like to finish higher than I ever have in that category,” Zobrist said ahead of Thursday’s game, via the Chicago Tribune. “But honestly I think the batting average is an outdated stat. I think we need to get rid of it at some point. The other stats we have are more telling about how your offensive season has been.

“(On-base plus slugging percentage), to me, is a way more telling stat,” Zobrist said. “I like that. (Miller Park) puts that up on the scoreboard because it’s a more telling stat of how you’ve produced overall as an offensive player. But (batting) average is outdated.”

but it's a stat that I grew up with and have a sentimental attachment to. (English majors....how should that sentence have ended....to? too? or something else?---it feels wrong the way it is written but I don't know why)

You ended it with a preposition.

Why would that be an onion quote?

Nothing wrong with it, depending on how strongly one feels about ending sentences with prepositions. Doesn't bother me at all, but some would recast that passage as something along the lines of "and to which I have a sentimental attachment."

That isn't a real rule though, it's just a stick up the ass rule.

Right, which is why it feels and sounds wrong.

I'm not even sure I understand the purpose or argument for that rule. My writing style is purely conversational style, so I assume I'll stretch the boundaries of proper English, but at the same time, I have never really understood that rule.

I guess some of my overbearing English language rules are still stuck in my head even if I fully think that particular rule was an idiot rule that doesn't follow any logic of language

No, this is plainly incorrect, and antagonistic to add the perjorative. The metric was his full batting line, hs OPS, has been much worse with men on than with no men on. Less avg, much less power. It's not that he has perfomred poorly, but he has not performed NEARLY as well as with the bases empty. Which is partly why (batting leadoff another huge reaosn) he has fewer RBI than his raw stats would suggest. If Babe Ruth slugged only .550 with men on, we wouldn't say he hadn't performed well. But it would be true his value was less than if he had slugged his .700 with men on.

Big moment in DC, Harper up with sakcs full, 9th inning, down 3. Brewers need to close this one.

Cards fans: whats the feeling on Jose Martinez's fielding? We dont have many numbers to go on. I know he threw out that pirate guy the other day. I get the feeling he doesnt have much range? But I dunno.

Cards fans: whats the feeling on Jose Martinez's fielding?

You know you've heard this.

He's terrible. He's been a professional ballplayer for 12 years, so he's not likely to get better.

Still by rField he's -9 defensively this year, which is pretty bad.

Mike Shildt is going to get some Matheny comparisons tonight.

I don't see anything wrong he did other than allowed Cecil to have a uniform, and that is beyond his level of control.

Hicks is still an babip machine for some reason.

Cecil got one batter too many, but, yeah, the bigger problem is that Cecil is on the active roster. But that essentially was the same problem Matheny had.

martinez should be batting second.

wow, dejong with a little flair that drops!!! back to a 5-run lead and we've burned cecil, so our win probability must be pretty high right now.

The Giants have batted around the order in the 8th against a bevy of Mets relievers. Some scrub name Aramis Garcia just called up hit a home run in his first P.A. to lead off the inning, now he's batting again and just hit a dying quail into short RF.

It's a good thing I was listening to Jon Miller on the radio overlay because NBC Sports spends about 99.9999% of the time showing his family in the stands rooting for him; the game on the field is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy down their priority list.