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As we all know, Cliff Lee doesn't solve Jeff Clement by facing him 20-25 times. 
The book on Clement goes around the league:  he swings over the top of slow stuff inside.  There's this cool little fad they got goin' called "video".  ;- )  
Jeff Clement had 40 AB's in the big leagues before we sat here in Seattle and watched every pitcher in the league pitch him exactly the same way.
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If LL can run a hot-cold strike zone chart that proves that Casey Kotchman is helpless down and in, and far worse than that, can't hold up on it ... what do you think the Rangers' advance scouts know?
Kotchman pounds everything thighs-and-down straight into the turf.  You talk like that's something Kevin Millwood needs 25 matchups to exploit.  :- )
This isn't a complicated strategy here, kids. 
You keep the ball down on Kotchman and it's either a 4-3 groundout or, if he's lucky, a single. 
In 2007 they threw Kotchman far more pitches outside the zone, and they have stopped doing that, as Graham demonstrated.
You sell him on an offspeed pitch and he tops it weakly, because he has to cheat to catch up to a fastball.
If we know that, you don't think the pro's do?
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.280/.350/.420 is a 90-100 OPS+.  You say that like it's a good thing.  .280/.350/.420, with 15-20 GIDP's, is not okay from your first baseman.  Because Kendry Morales is going to hit .300/.350/.550.
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