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1. Guapo Posted: April 29, 2012 at 10:09 AM (#4118919)He was more likely to make an out, and if he had, nobody would be talking about it.
They test steroids to make sure they aren't positive for Matt Kemp.
Kemp is hitting .577/.621/1.077 against lefties this year. He hit .341/.461/.682 against lefties last year. That's pretty close to a .500 OBP against lefties over the last year and a month so I'm not sure he was more likely to make an out. And even if he did make an out, having a lefty face him in that spot would still be a questionable decision.
But I agree that leaving Rodriguez on the mound when he was CLEARLY having more control problems than usual was not a winning move. I speculate that perhaps Davey Johnson understands that the team is riding an unsustainable hot streak right now with a comfortable cushion so leave Henry in there to sink or swim to see how he does. Well, we saw alright. As the Ode to Marymount goes, "There is no substitute for experience."
It was the tale of two games: Strasburg vs Billingsley was better than advertised, matching up pretty evenly for 6 innings. Then it became just another battle of attrition for the visiting nine. Take away Hairston's HPB and the Nats win. Take away Espinoza's booted ball and the Nats win.
Still, a great night of baseball that had me glued to the game. Strasburg was Strasburg, Harper did about what I expected at the plate and showed off a laser arm, Vin Scully calling the game on TV via Extra Innings. Almost Heaven.
Who says they haven't? He was good last year too, remember?
Any manager who IBB's a leadoff hitter in a tied game should get fired. Out of a canon. Into the sun. And have his children taken away.
Who says they haven't? He was good last year too, remember?
Don't be such a ####### child.
He was good last year too, remember?
Sure I do. He's clearly the best player in the game now, and that's fine; someone has to be the best player in the game. But in the space of one season and change, he has gone from being merely a good player to suddenly looking like the second coming of convicted felon Barry Bonds. The version of Bonds with the gigantic steroid-bloated cranium.
And absolutely nobody saw this coming; Kemp was just a sixth round draft pick. So where in the hell did THIS come from? If there's one thing the last 10-15 years of baseball have taught me, it's that if something seems a little too good to be true, it probably is.
Hasn't the book on Kemp for years been huge, unrealized potential up until 2011? As I recall he was treated like a bit of a disappointment in LA his first years despite putting up a 120 OPS+ from age 22-24. If this isn't the kind of guy you expect to break out in his mid-20s then who is?
Remember when baseball used to be fun?
I admit, I laughed.
http://www.minorleagueball.com/2008/3/20/306903/not-a-rookie-matt-kemp
"My guess is that major league pitchers will make some adjustments in their approach and we will see his batting average drop, but we’re still talking about a guy who should hit .280-.290 with 25/20 production. At age 23 he has plenty of time to improve beyond that."
Tons of guys have come from relatively nowhere to be good players, and Matt Kemp didn't come from nowhere, he was considered to be one of the top prospects in one of MiLBs top farm systems, and advanced so quickly that he only had time to appear on the BA 100 list once. He just barely crossed the 50 Games threshold in 2006 or he would've been eligible in 2007, after hitting .346/.414/.543 across AA/AAA while being a plus defensive CF and baserunner, who then managed to eke out a .450 SLG as a 21 y/o even when his other stats suffered mightily.
Also: the man had a 6 WAR season as a 24-year-old. I'd say that's a pretty good indicator that he might become a superstar.
Used to play in the same metro area as Matt Kemp; currently a teammate of Jose Bautista. Need I say more?
Some unclear, terrible writing by Adam Kilgore here. But if I understand it, these appear to be pretty poor reasons for not bringing in a righty.
I don't know about that. (1) he was gonna lose the platoon advantage one way or the other. (2) at some point in a extra-inning game (and dependent on how rested the pen is) you've got to shift into multi-inning reliever mode. Gorz is a multi-inning reliever and you "had" to use him for one batter to get out of the 9th. You've now got the choice of removing your best multi-inning reliever after just one batter or leaving him in to do his job for the next two innings (if necessary). If there was a mistake there, it was using him to finish the 9th knowing Kemp was leading off the 10th. (3) I'm not in a position to say whether the other relievers were tired, whether "no pressure kid, just Matt Kemp with the game on the line" is a good way to start a kid's career and what the proper talent ranking is among the relievers left.
Even last year, Kemp hit "only" 1 HR per 15 PA against LHP. Obviously there's no reason to expect a HR here.
Is Gorzelanny really the best multi-inning reliever in the Nats' bullpen? I'm quibbling, perhaps, but my incomplete WPA-type stats suggest that Stammen is the man.
EDIT: 'best available', would sort my quibble out.
As a 20-year-old, he hit 27 out in 109 games in the Florida State League.
In a way, I feel sorry for you because of your diseased inability to enjoy baseball.
I'll echo #23, this was hilarious.
I think Burnett might qualify as the LOOGY, and Johnson states he'd pitched the two previous days.
of course, IRL you could spend most of your time volunteering to nurse injured puppies back to health. if so, please accept my admiration and respect!
Unfortunately, NOTHING has changed about the parking situation in the last year. Though I was within a mile of dodger stadium over an hour before game time, I still missed Harper's first PA (in the second inning!). This is amazingly unacceptable- there are at least a dozen "easy fixes" that could be done to vastly improve the situation.
Also, whatever parking lot security gains were made last year are gone now. I wandered around for about a half hour just to check things out (OK, I forgot where I parked) and didn't see a single security type visible in the parking lot after the game. The only visible security was the crossing guard types, standing in the street with flashlights.
If only Frank McCourt had known anything about parking lots ...
it was pretty jammed up right at the stadium when i got there, but it was moving. i left from the wilshire area at quarter to 5 and got in my seat by 5:30, so it wasn't too bad. where were you coming from? i took beverly to silver lake, then slid over to sunset. the traffic was not bad.
agree with you about security. not much in evidence.
sleepy, i went to the game with piehole of david wells. he lives a block from me. i sometimes get free tix. if you'd like to go to a game sometime, let me know via my btf email. piehole can vouch for me not being a secret serial murderer who lures btfers to dodger stadium.
piehole can vouch for me not being a secret serial murderer who lures btfers to dodger stadium.Isn't that exactly how a team of secret serial murderers who lures btfers to dodger stadium would operate? Each vouches for the other.
I dunno, following up on Ron J, your capital-less entries have a little bit of the SE7EN John-Doe-journals feel to them.
I'm pretty sure if you're collecting former Pirate starting pitching prospects to fill in holes in your bullpen, in-game bullpen management is not your biggest problem.
Sleepy, there is such a thing as free lunch. phredbird is indeed a gentleman and a scholar. The game was a real treat. Mrs. Piehole and I are still talking about the game two days later. Great seats and phredbird and Mrs phredbird are a great pair to hang out with.
For Nats fans: is this what Davey does with relievers, just leaves them out there to blow up? There was no one warming in the bullpen when H-Rod was blowing up in the 9th. In fact, I think it looked a little like the bullpen guys were caged tigers and pissed that they couldn't get into the game.
Listen, we've merely been implicated in a number of secret serial killings, never convicted.
If the Dodgers followed your advice they would never have given a job to Ronald Belisario!
i don't know what you're talking about and by the way we're having a free barbecue at the next dodger home game come on over its in victory grove off elysian by the gate just keep to the path and look for the smoke from the fire and oh yeah free beer and stuff
Secret serial murderers use the 'code' button instead of the 'quote' button.
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