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1. DarrenMostly because the known supply of OFs would be exhausted by the end of the season.
Luckily the Sox face a good deal of LHP in the next few days, so it's a minimal loss.
Jeter's double could have been caught.
I have never seen the horribleness in Trot's fielding/jumps that seems to be the prevalent opinion in SOSH. He always seemed to get to all the balls he should and a few more, so the Defensive Bible and UZR ratings (great and generally good, respectively) didn't surprise me.
I believe that Trot's defense cost Pedro the victory in Game 7 of the '03 series.
Jeter's double could have been caught.
IIRC, he was playing on a bum leg at the time, and it was certainly stupid not to replace him on defense. Of course, if you can't be bothered to change the pitcher in such a situation...
And, ready or not (early returns: not), here comes Wily Mo!
Thats a weird way to put it: "Cost Pedro the victory in Game 7."
Nixon's leg wasnt too bum to hit a homer off of Clemens that night.
The implication on the NESN broadcast was that the tweaked groin was the cause of the bizarre, um, "route" on that play. This sounded like a bit of a posteriori reasoning to me, since Trot wasn't lifed until, what, the top of the fifth?
Is this reference from a French movie?
So Francona wants to rush him back... ?
On the other hand, perhaps he's figured out Red Sox doctors are usually wrong when it comes to injuries... if they say one thing, do the opposite :)
Are 'Doc' and the therapist the same guy?
Do we have any particular sinkerballers or strikeout guys? I guess maybe Beckett and Clement, though neither is a really big groundballer. If Dinardo gets a spot start, sure.
With Wells on the mound tonight, I want Stern out there even if he can't hit a lick against the evil robot from the future.
Very nice. He's an evil looking bastid...lets put an all evil looking team together, active players only. I'll start:
SP:Chacin, Padilla (TEX)
2B:Jorge Cantú
RF:That Roider for the MFY's
1B:That Other Roider for the MFY's
Apparently Francona, since this (the latter) is supposedly what we'll seeing tonight and tomorrow.
Could be fun-- and scary.
I suppose the Orcs are known to have those too.
BTW, Pena is ENORMOUS.
p is for Ponzi.
3.5, 4.75, 5.75, 8 (option) w/a 1M signing bonus, $500k option buyout, and salary escalator provisions.
It looks like less than he'd have gotten in arb given that he's making 2.75M this year.
I havnt gotten to see him much the last few years but i know he was a really good RF for awhile, could even fill-in in CF and covered Fenways massive RF well. Had a good arm then too, he was actually a good pitching prospect and top QB prospect (in addition to being consensus HS PoY as an OF and LHP) coming out of HS in Wilmington (I think he played one fall of football with NC State but im not sure).
The #1 all-time evil-looking player, as far as I'm concerned, is Andy Petitte pitching from the windup. Glowering over his glove, he looks like a charicature of the Prince of Light himself. Other evil-looking players:
3B: Eric Chavez has that whole serpentine-hot thing going on.
SP: Dastardly Doug Davis and his facial hair.
RP: The Gagne. He looks like a robot designed to kill people. Not sure if he qualifies as active anymore, though.
In the same game, Loretta converted a missed catch into a DP. Maybe he should be in RF.
The Red Sox are kicking some ass!
1) Papelbon gave a pound to the bulpen policeman as he came out of the bulpen, i doubt that was on TV, and it was awesome.
2) Papi comes out to a different song every time, but coming out to Big Poppa by Biggie was awesome.
3) Trot came out to a Johnny Cash song when he pinch it, which raised his status in my book.
4) Varitek kept coming out to that godawful superman song. Lowers him in my book.
I think that is all.
Does Papel have a set song he comes out to?
Li'l Papi apparently now comes out to "Bodies" by Drowning Pool. You know, the one with the wannabe Lemmy guy croaking/shouting, "Let the bodies hit the flo'!"
At the game I went to, they did "Big Poppa" for Ortiz a couple times. I forgot to mention the awesomeness of that.
I'd take that for a season.
Watching Wily Mo swing, I do think it's possible that he'll put up numbers in his non-K at-bats that are basically as good as anyone has ever.
He's downright Sheffieldian in terms of how hard he seems to hit every ball that he manages to make contact with. If he could manage even average strikezone control skills he'd be one of the best hitters in baseball. Unfortunately, at this point it looks like he needs an astrolabe to find average.
If he goes ~25 PAs without a BB (as he did to start the 2005 season) his BB rate is back at his career average. He doesn't look particular good at taking pitches (and his P/PA is pretty low).
I feel little bad writing this, but I don't thik we've seen much to view Wily Mo as any different from the hitter he projected to be.
LET THE LOOGIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE LOOGIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE LOOGIES HIT THE FLOOR
YEAH!!!
I was trying to think of different but good closer songs.
I sort of thought Folsom Prison Blues would be kind of a good one, just to hear "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." It seems like a closer should feel that way, but then he says "i hang my head and cry" and I don't want that. Any thoughts for what the ultimate closer song would be?
On Wily Mo from last night: Does anybody think a player like Wily Mo, or Soriano, basically just need to play a little game theory here, mixed strategies? Basically, I'd say about one in every 6 at bats or so, just go up there with no intention of swinging at anything.
Did he go all the way with it - i.e., run full-tilt to the mound, and ended up gassed before his warmup pitches even started?
Did you read this article?
http://www.slate.com/id/2139937/?nav=mpp
I think there was a Newsblog thread about it at some point. The author nominates "Hate Me Now," by Nas, which Huston Street uses.
Luckily, he also brings a mirror out to home plate, and only the batter can see Papelbon talking to him in the mirror. Thinking that he's going crazy, the batter can't focus to hit Papelbon's fastball.
same with wily mo. actually espeically with wily mo. it's clear that he's tryign to be more patient, but that'll only get you so far with crap pitch recognition.
There was a piece in the Globe over the offseason about how Kevin Youkilis had 20/11 vision or something like that. Preternatural pitch recognition might be exactly that - a natural tool - rather than a measure of intelligence or hard work or anything like that.
(Obviously there's a lot of hard work in the middle space between tools and skills, but I think the ground-level physical ability is quite important.)
DB
Lets say you have a pitcher like Schilling who studies Wily Mo religiously "usually swings at everything." Schilling is going to know that in 5/6 at bats Wily Mo is going to swing at everything, but in 1/6 he's going to walk him if he just throws pitches out of the zone. Schilling doesn't want to walk him 1/6 times does he?
What would a good pitcher do against this strategy? The idea is simply to shrink the zone.
And you could make it random in clumps to: for 5 games, do it once an at bat, and then for 3 not at all, the advanced scouting will get all messed up.
well yeah, that's the idea, right? he doesn't have much of a problem with bad pitchers. from what i've seen of wily mo, his problem is that he's impatient. he's taken his walks. he clearly wants to be a complete hitter.
also, your strategy is way too simple. it'd be trivial to exploit it with a little video study, which i would expect any team to do before a playoff series.
there's supposed to be a "not" right before "impatient"
2) Are you suggesting the use of this radical and deeply suboptimal (in its individual uses) strategy in any high or moderate leverage situations? That seems like a dangerous idea, but it also seems like if Wily Mo is just going to go back to his normal strategy when it matters, it seems like you lose most of the benefit.
3) Major league pitchers can strike out just about anyone with pitches off the center of the plate, if he's only going to swing at pitches right down the center.
If not, here they are:
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''He's very coachable," said Jackson. ''It's going to be a slow process. We don't want to change things all at once. That's not good for everyone.
''He's facing a lot of lefthanders right now and he has success against them, so we don't want to get him to change things that he's successful at. So we work hard on things and, like I said, it's a long process that we'll keep after. He's a young kid with all kinds of potential. We want to make sure he keeps getting better."
Jackson said there are things he wants to see Peña do better -- such as seeing the ball longer into the mitt and hitting the ball up the middle.
''We would like to see him trust his hands," said Jackson. ''He's got great hands. He can really handle the bat, so we want to see him use those hands and track the ball a little deeper. I think that would make a big difference for him."
Another issue is Peña's bat. Jackson says it's one of the biggest in the game, about 35 inches and 33 ounces.
''It's similar to the types of bats that we used to swing when I played," Jackson said. ''But that's not something I'm even looking at right now. I know from experience that when you change someone's bat -- especially going from a bigger bat to a smaller bat -- you can really change the dynamic of someone's swing, and there's a lot that we like about Wily Mo's swing. So we're not going to touch that."
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That's interesting about the bat size. To my untrained eye, his bat does look too heavy. But I guess you wouldn't want to mess with him too drastically.
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