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1. Crosseyed and Painless Posted: October 12, 2012 at 08:40 AM (#4265775)After May 1, Scherzer went 15-4 with a 3.14 ERA. Did he figure something out?
Not to change the subject, but Young strikes me as the sort of guy who might figure a little bit out in his 27-28 years and add maybe 30 points of BA. That would be enough to keep him in the league but not enough to make him at all good. I could see him as the first player in MLB history to get 2000 hits (he's almost halfway there) without providing any actual value to his teams. (EDIT: Well, Doc Cramer beat him to it.) Sort of a very poor man's Garret Anderson.
Nice job, Justin.
Young 268/293/413 for an 86 OPS+ when batting 5th
All AL 5th hitters 261/318/441 for a 100 OPS+
And the answer is that, really, Leyland had no better choice.
Other Tiger hitters who regularly batted behind Young:
Avila 243/352/384 (but would be an LH behind LH Prince)
Dirks 322/370/487 (ditto, and only when healthy)
Peralta 239/305/384 (don't think that's an improvement)
Boesch 240/286/372 (lefty again, and worse)
Infante 257/283/385 (don't think that's an improvement)
Santiago 206/283/272 (starting 2b for 45 games)
If Victor Martinez comes back and plays to his career levels (303/370/469), that's going to be a distinct improvement.
Hey, you're not even supposed to know what happened last night!
Neither the Yankees nor Orioles have impressed me this week. The number of just wretched at bats by members of both teams has been shocking. I said in the chatter last night that Oakland/Detroit felt like an exciting pitchers' duel while New York/Baltimore was just a snoozefest. To pick two examples; A-Rod's at bat in the 8th was awful. He was twitchy and desperate and it looked like he could have had ten strikes and not hit one. On the other hand there was a Chris Davis at bat where he saw three straight sliders that bounced and swung at them all. If the scoreboard had flashed "Slider in the dirt coming up, don't swing Chris!" I don't think he would have been able to stop himself. The pitches weren't good or enticing, they were just spiked into the ground. It's been awful baseball.
Both teams are better than this. You don't win 90something games without being awfully good but so far they've just looked miserable.
Little factoid that surprised the heck out of me: Scherzer this season had the highest K/9 among qualifying pitchers since Kerry Wood in '03.
The Yankees look like #### though
What's even more amazing about Scherzer's season is that he did while enduring the suicide of his brother in June.
Honestly, the Tigers could be on the Johnson/Schilling path to a title. Verlander and post-April Scherzer might both be top 5 AL pitchers.
I know nothing about pitching injuries, but I think Max isn't right at this point. He's never had a robo-arm like Verlander, but right now he seems to be struggling (relatively speaking) after 80 pitches or so.
Of course, Fister/Sanchez isn't a bad 3/4.
Hey, you're not even supposed to know what happened last night!
I said I wasn't going to watch or tape it, and I didn't. Wish I had now, obviously.
The Yankees are a good enough team that they can win a playoff series despite not playing well. (So are the Tigers, apparently.)
I'll take the Yankees in 6 over the Tigers, or Detroit in 7 over Baltimore.
The Nats win tonight, then take SF in seven.
World Series: Yanks over Nats in 6, or Detroit over Washington in 7.
The coaches did at the time claim to have found and corrected a flaw in his delivery around then.
He must have. Not sure if it was Norris or the combination, but they ran (correctly as it turned out) with little fear. Certainly was a plus offensively.
Parker was crusing exept for Norris's inability to block balls, or throw out runners. He had nearly as many strikouts and far fewer pitches than verlander after 5. In the end, it probably didnt matter, as noone could score on Verlander.
At the end of the game, as Detroit was celebrating the crowd went wild and started chanting Lets Go Oakland for 3-5 minutes and all the players came out and waved and threw batting gloves into the stands... was any of this evident on TV?
It was clear the crowd was celebrating the players and their season, and that the A's players came out to acknowledge the applause, but I didn't see the players throwing souvenirs as a reward. They showed a couple of shots of the crowd, and of the whole field with the Tigers' players doing their thing in one part, and the A's players standing outside their dugout.
It really was a remarkable interaction between fans and their team.
Yeah, they showed it on TNT. I thought it was pretty awesome--of both the A's and the crowd--but it was a bit surreal with the Tigers celebrating on the field in the background.
It helps the atmosphere greatly when there are real fans in the seats, as opposed to mallpark dilettantes and the status-anxious.
Still a fantastic season for the A's....it was a lot more fun than I thought it would be in March. Losing to Justin Verlander isn't anything to be ashamed of. We just have to tip our cap.
Condolences to all the A's fans here. You guys are great and your team had a phenomenal year. The crowds at the Coliseum were incredible too.
It was pretty surreal from the stands too, but nonetheless awesome. You had a little enclave made up of the Tigers and some camera guys doing their thing while 30k+ fans were cheering their brains out for the A's. The team-wide curtain call was one the best things I've seen at the ballpark. And there must have been almost as many cameramen capturing that moment as there were on the Tigers.
I think (perhaps a bit optimistically) that it does. There are a lot of latent A's fans in the Bay, who have become a bit disillusioned over the past few years. Hopefully the excitement of this team gets them back into the swing of things.
It seems like the youth of this team is doubly valuable for that. As an outsider, my perception of the A's has been them trading or letting go older players. Seeing the youth on the team and recognizing that they will be around for a bit, it seems like it would be easier to get behind this group of players.
At 32, Coco Crisp was the oldest active regular at the end of the season.
The A's probably shouldn't get rid of Crisp, because if they do, Amazing GF will track down Billy Beane, rip off his arms, and beat him to death with them.
Oh and good luck with that clown closer for the rest of the playoffs.
Where did Reddick go? Also on the subject of Reddick will he have an OBP > .300 next year? I am hoping the league didn't figure him out.
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