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It's like the worst-kept secret in baseball. Perhaps his 6-out save and bailout of Charlie and Co. will forcibly peel the wool back from LMC's eyes.
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Given the finish of our last post, the Chicago Manual of Style leaves us no choice but to clarify. The above photo is not an actual depiction of my tiredness. Just in case that helps.
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PHX Terry
Picking from a long list of interesting shouts by Terry, let's go wit'
Saunders shows AA how to play the outfield - wonder if the Pencil was watching. I'm listening to the Stro's broadcast team on MLB TV, their color guy said after Saunders play in RF: "Saunders is a very good outfielder. I wouldn't be surprised to see him in center field, as early as tomorrow. It's just not working out with Almonte in center."
:: golfclap ::
Tough to have a Shouting Match when nobody's on the other side of the issue; some things just gotta be Photoshopped or you gotta do without them entirely.
But Terry will definitely get the Yoo-Hoo shower when the M's cave in and decide to play with 3 outfielders, rather than with two.
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Rhapsody: the M's outfield defense is 50-70 runs better this year, WITHOUT adding any Michael Bourns or anything like that. I'd say it was a good 50% of that, or more, that was simply due to the blunder of playing the 2013 outfield so shallow.
Tip of the kelly to John Dewan, not to Dr. D. Dewan is the one who tracked "bases lost in front of OF's" and "bases lost behind OF's" and put Michael Saunders at the top of the list ... which made us all go DING DING DING with respect to Michael Morse and co.
They just backed the OF's up this year, pretty much. Ain't that something?
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In yet another weekly episode of Tomorrow's News Today, SSI published this article on April 30th, and two days later, the ROOT broadcast team had a conversation in Almonte's first at-bat, I mean first pitch first at-bat, about Almonte swinging too hard. Did you guys see that? :- )
They didn't get that one from their saber crew, now did they.
Here's the question: what happened on the day in between? In your words, Dave. Ke-'mon.
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As long as you're taking requests -- yes, we know McClendon isn't interested in and Smoak number two, and that's not a biggie anyway. Here is the table that shows you how critical the situations have been for each reliever: the higher the gmLI, the more highly the manager thinks of him.
I edited out two guys with 2.0 innings each before leaving the bullpen; one of them was Chris Young. I rounded numbers for emphasis. Sue me.
| Relief Pitcher | gmLI (1.0 is "average" game tension; RP's are high) |
| Rodney | 1.9 |
| Furbush, LH | 1.7 |
| Wilhemsen | 1.4 (Like a moth to a Talent flame) |
| Medina | 1.4 |
| Joe Beimel, LH | 1.3 grrrrrrrr |
| Hector NOESI? | 1.1 |
| Leone | 1.0 (A soft landing is fine) |
| Farquhar | 0.8 |
Here's the punch line: Farquhar is being ridden like SeaBiscuit, with 15 meaningless innings (equals 90 full season). The thing is, Wilhelmsen visually looks like a 1-1 overall pick, both physically and from the batter's box.* Danny Farquhar looks like a walk-on at a junior college. The implications aren't soothing Dr. D's nerves.
There are two versions of Farquhar, the 13-K version, and this year's all-cutter version. Both pitchers are superb.
Any chance of recognizing that Danny Farquhar is our best, not our worst, relief pitcher?
:: daps ::,
Dr D