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Shout - DaddyO - 7/25/15 11:41am

<p>Re: Hultzen, figures. It happens, but it sure hurts when in three years out of of four you have overall picks 2, 2, and 3, and all you come up with is a a bust, a pitcher you may never be able to deploy because of injury, and rushed catcher who shows great skill as a receiver but so far can't hit within 20 points of the #Mendoza line. Then, with your two greatest assets, Cliff Lee and Michael Pineda, you end up with Smoak (bust) and Montero (bust so far). These five transactions will be the defining legacy of Jack Zduriencik.</p>

Thanks For All The Fish

You can pick any game.
 
The one with the rookie ump and the joke of a strike zone?  That's a game lost.
 
Any of Rodney's blown saves? One less and we'd be in the playoffs - or at least the playoff for the playoffs.
 
Early season road losing streak or late one, poor home record, too many losses to bottom-feeders.  One more hit, one less run scored against us, and we're there.  We had 60+ games with 0-2 runs scored.   We lost 27 games by one measly run.  One run.
 

Offensive Creation - Unlucky or Incompetent?

From the inestimable DaddyO: 
 
 
...it's beginning to look like this team is exactly what we expected, a .500-plus-a-few-games team. It could have been so much more with the pickup of one solid bat over the offseason and a couple at the trade deadline. We all instinctively knew it at the time; either Jack just failed to execute, again, or he was, again, just unlucky. People will pick which one based on their view of Jack. I know which one I pick.

BJOL 'Combined Use Score' and Chris Capuano

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Garrett Richards is the New Ed Walsh, dept.

Right on cue, Bill gives us a long, thoughtful article about "swing men."  The subtitle there is as the section header above.

If it was a little before your time ... Mo' Dawg and I enjoyed watching Big Ed's finest season in 1908.  He started 49 games, relieved in another 17 games, and won 40 games with a 1+ ERA.  He also led the league in cellar dungeons.

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