Weighty game thread: April 27, Braves at Cardinals
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From prior thread:
Fun fact: Derek Lowe pitched a no-hitter on this date 8 years ago. Any chance he finds the magic again tonight? (And by magic, I would accept 7 innings, 2 ER).
@1:
No.
I could see Lowe giving up 2 runs in 7IP tonight – and then we’ll lose 2-1. That’s just the way it’s going.
unfortunately, I dont see Lowe getting through this lineup with much success at all. Careers vs Lowe
this is the type of game that the Braves shouldnt win, but if they do it may be a big boost for the team. They have their work cut out for them tonight
That’s okay boy, won’t feed Melky when you can?
If Lowe doesn’t give up 2 runs in the first that will be magic.
I’d accept a one inning no hitter from Lowe at this point.
lowe is going to be a stud for us tonight. i have that gut feeling… melky is also going to hit a homerun and steal home. chipper, who has completed 42 hours of yoga since the jordan debacle, will be like silk out at 3rd scooping, lunging, and diving for balls. heyward will scale the fence and rob pujols of a 450 foot homerun, then hit w/o a bat in his hand and slap a 93 mph fastball over the fence. troy glaus will make 8 errors on 2 plays allowing 4 runners to score (unearned of course) in 2 seperate innings. we’ll win 12-11 and derek lowe’s line will be: 7ip 0k 8bb 12h 11r 0er
ryan c: I think you’re on to something, or is that on something. not sure.
Take a load off Mel-ky. AAANNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDD get the F*** off my team!
Look, all this is D, Lowe’s fault.
SEE:
If Lowe hadn’t signed the ridiculous offer from Wren, and then fallen old all of a sudden, Wren wouldn’t have had to dump Vazquez for the Yankee’s pupu platter offering (although Arodys might turn out OK), which would have led to Leche remaining in the Bronx.
same lineup as last night…even hudson. apparently even bobby knows that lowe-down sucks and he has chosen to pitch hudson on back to back nights. this will be interesting.
on a side note: i smoke crack
Seat Painter, of course it’s Derek Lowe’s fault. We didn’t really need that detailed an explanation- we’re pretty sure he’s responsible for everything else that’s wrong with America and several Canadian provinces.
yeah look at how great Vasquez looks right now also
yes Joe, thats exactly what John is saying. Throw it where it starts in the middle of the plate and falls away. The hitter has to think the pitch is a strike at some point
nice job Lowe and Yunel there in the 1st, just need 8 more like it to compete
I don’t think we’ve hit a home run in a week now.
Hey, good baserunning by someone in a Braves uniform…by Glaus, no less
i could have hopped on one foot to 3rd on that play. you suck, troy.
Hey, Melky drives in a run!
Even Melky’s RBI hits suck.
The Melk Man delivers.
Keep it up, boys. Gonna need all of it.
i dont know if i’ve ever seen someone almost get thrown out at home after the ball was cut off at the mound…hilarious. anyway, WAY TO GO MELKY!
Alright, guys. We scored a run. Time to mentally go home for the night.
Melky and Lowe… bringing the lumber.
nm
Lowe for first base!
The rest of the lineup is not doing so well, but the pitchers are on fire in the last 3 games.
(On fire being a relative term.)
Someone make sure hell is still hot.
You may be on to something here with the Melky-bashing threads, Mac.
He went 2 for 4 last night, too.
There is a reason the braves keep Yunel around, and that catch was an example of why.
Is there a more futile contest than the air tran home run inning?
It’s like Powerball at this point.
OH MY GOD DEREK LOWE PITCHED BACK TO BACK 1-2-3 INNINGS.
I’m running for the storm shelter.
You gotta do something with that swing on the house.
So, Salty’s been sent back to the minors. Of all the guys in that trade, who’d’a thunk he would have been the one not to pan out. Of course, Max Ramirez has been called up to replace him, but that’s another story.
Tyler Flowers, Max Ramirez, and Jarrod Saltalamacchia walk into a bar… where they take turns sticking pins into a Brian McCann voodoo doll.
McGwire sure aged fast after quitting the ‘roids.
Pitcher batting 8th. LaRussa reminds us again that he’s still managing the St. Louis Cardinals.
LaRussa with that crazy pitcher batting 8th thing – If Carpenter can outhit Ryan, you really might be overvaluing defense.
Ahh, got me!
A lot of line up optimization tools have the pitcher hitting 8th as the most optimal line up.
We need to get this run home in a bad way.
That should still be a balk.
Piece of shit!
that was at least a foot outside
holy shart, that wasnt close to a strike.
He called it where it was caught.
@40 – that just seems counterintuitive – I get that having a player of some skill batting in front of your number 1 hitter has value, but surely that would be outweighed by the difference in AB’s over the course of the season, and the corresponding black hole from 7 to 9. I am far from an authority though. How does it work?
and it starts…will it end?
Lowe can’t allow homers.
Bobby’s about to get 155
Well St Louis is going to hit some. Let’s hope he can at least keep them to solo shots.
@47
More at bats for the 8th hitter vs the 9th hitter isn’t as big of a deal as it would at first appear since a good number of those 8th slot appearances will end up being taken by pinch hitters.
@52, but wouldn’t that be true regardless of 8 or 9? It would seem to cancel each other out.
47, I don’t know how it works, I’m just saying that’s what they tell you.
I don’t necessarily trust them, either.
I think what he’s saying is that the number of PAs wouldn’t be as different (with pitchers getting more PAs) as they seem because pitchers get PH for anyway.
it sux when your teams winning and you still feel theyre at a disadvantage.
how in the world did bobby not get ejected? i’ve never seen such explicits.
The umpire must have felt that he missed it.
Credit though – 1 run through 5 is pretty danged good improvement for Lowe.
New poll.
@53
Definitely. If there is an advantage one way or another it’s got to be pretty small. I thought you were saying that batting the pitcher 8th would lead to more pitcher at bats over the course of a season and I was responding to that. Sorry if that’s not what you meant.
It was, and I think the “smallness of difference” point you make is probably the most important one.
Actually, Joe, Oquendo will be a manager, and a GM, and a scout, and a hitting instructor, and a color commentator…
So, how long does Bobby stay with Lowe?
This team is killing me.
Somehow seems like I’ve seen this story before…
I vote leave them both where they are. I’m disappointed with Glaus (wasn’t too pleased with the signing in the first place and hate the fact that he’s wearing Andruw’s number which should go up next to Spahn’s a few years down the line) but it’s way too early to do anything drastic. I don’t really get the Melky hate either. Diaz earned a starting job with his performances over the past two seasons and I’d obviously reather have Vazquez than Melky but the fact that Melky plays way too often for a 4th OF is not his fault. It’s not the player’s fault that he sucks. It’s the manager’s fault for playing the sucky player and the GM’s fault for signing the sucky player and/or not sending him in the minor leagues where he belongs. Be mad at the Braves for being too cheap to pony up for Vazquez or for being too cheap to pay someone enough to take Derek Lowe off their hands but I think we should lay off Melky (and Glaus) for at least a little while longer.
Chipper took too long to turn that.
I can’t ever watch Rasmus play without remembering that the rumor was that we were going to draft him… and took Joey Devine instead.
It’s been a few hours since Yadier Molina has hurt us. He’s probably due.
64 — Too long.
My hate intensifies.
Oh good lord. In the words of Homer Simpson, ‘scuse me while I kiss the sky.
Umpire is starting to squeeze Lowe. Then Lowe gives in and makes a terrible pitch.
Bobby should have had O’Flarety up to pitch to Rasmus.
Or it could be more of Lowe and less of Yadi, either way.
When voting in the poll, don’t forget that if Chipper does a better job the Braves get out of the inning tied…
This series has not helped my arguments that Brian McCann is the most valuable catcher in the NL.
Can we start rooting for the Rays yet instead?
omg…
Nice catch, Melky.
Remember that time back in June ’06 when we lost 10 striaght games? Let’s see if we can pass that one.
75- I’d rather have Ross catching every day than Omar playing third.
we’ve had 2 plays this inning that arent errors but good defensive teams make and its cost us 3 runs.
It’s hardly worth it…but…BOOOOOOOOOO
I like it….a team goal. Something to strive for. Let’s do it!
82 — Actually, Prado would be at 3rd and Infante at 2nd…and the team much better defensively.
McLouth sucks.
I wonder if that sequence made hit the pitcher 8th believers out of Jim and Don. They were going on about how hitting the pitcher 8th screws the 7th hitter because he’ll be pitched around. You saw/heard the rest. I’m fully in agreement that the benefit is most likely very small but even if the advantage is only one a year, it’s still worth doing in my mind.
I wish I had some reason to think the Braves might get some runs here.
that was lucky
86- I think Ross is a more of a defensive upgrade of McCann than Prado is over Chipper or Omar over Prado. Also, I like Ross’s bat over Omar’s.
The Braves are playing so poorly right now that Chief Nocahoma won’t come on the board to badmouth them.
chipper better gets this runner in
91 — I don’t. I think that infield defense is more important than catcher defense, and that there probably wouldn’t be much offensive difference between Ross and Infante.
cmon McCann help them out
You could fill in basically any noun there for a true statement. One run, One dollar, One coke, etc.
Really smoked that one.
The other question: Who would you rather have on the bench, Diory Hernandez or Clint Sammons?
Hey, guys– I’m watching on GameCast, which has the Braves listed as having one out. Is that a mistake, or did someone get out?
That cell phone company is really going to get their money’s worth for sponsoring pitching changes this series.
98 — It would probably be Thurston since Sub-Zero’s on the DL, FWIW.
The Braves are just going to tease us and lose by one.
Watch
You’d need someone who can play shortstop. Brandon Hicks?
Mclouth is the out in this inning
103 –Infante could move over to short.
same amount of hits as the cards and they have two errors but lead this game, thats my powerless braves
@104- Thanks. GameCast doesn’t list his at-bat this inning. Weird.
Chip – yep, he hit a weak grounder to start off the inning. I guess Gamecast decided that we should be able to guess that McLouth did nothing special
cmon Heyward draw a walk
Boy, Tony ain’t afraid to burn a pitcher, is he?
This inning… Why can’t MLB do something about all the pitching changes? This is nuts.
@109
Burn’em if you got’em!
I can’t wait for LaRussa to retire.
I hate this team.
heyward might just K looking more than anyone Ive ever seen. Swing the bat kid
Heyward hasn’t had a hit in a while… why not pull him for Diaz once the lefty comes in?
Great managing, TLR. I don’t know how anyone held us down the other 6 games without using a pitcher for every hitter.
Ugh. Heyward come on.
@110
Because MLB likes to make them $$$. Every time someone changes pitchers mid inning, an MLB team gets paid to run an add or three.
Heyward’s average is down to .224.
Other than Prado, the highest batting average in the lineup is Chipper at .259
Kris Medlen is turning out to be a pretty good pitcher for us
Sammons is good enough to be a tolerable backup catcher (If for no other reason than the bar is so low)
Both Diory and Thurston have been pretty brutal with the stick in the bigs.
so we PH for McLouth against the lefty, but Diaz cant face the LH with the bases loaded
Sammons has been pretty brutal with the bat in Triple A, and hasn’t shown much defensively.
123 — Yeah, whatever happened with all of that talk about easing Heyward in and not making him face all of these tough lefties?
Melky is now 2 for 22 right handed. Switch hitter my ass.
I’m just wondering, is there anyone out there who can tell me what teh NINETEEN NINETY TWO FIRING ORDER IS FOR MY PICKUP!?!!?!???!
There’s Diaz’s first walk of the season.
Second, actually.
doesn’t larussa have another lefty he could bring in?
hinske must be even slower than mccann
cmon yunel, i got a feeling this is our last shot
Typical.
just to recap
Nate cant get a runner in from 3rd with one out Melky cant catch a fly ball that hits him in the wrist Chipper cant turn a DP Heyward cant get the bat off his should with the bases loaded
this team does have to be perfect in order to win
-124 I thought Sammons had pretty good defensive rep. You’re right though about the bat; I didn’t realize it was that terrible. Not really a good answer anywhere.
Like Mac has said in the past, catchers often get a good defensive reputation if they can’t hit, just because people rationalize that they’re good at something.
Brandon Hicks is probably the most useful non-OF, non-P on the AAA roster. Maybe Barbaro Canizares.
sucks that we have no one to run for chipper, not that it will matter. When was the last time Bmac got a hold of one?
Omar could run for him.
Even when we do get a hard-hit ball, it’s just foul or right at someone.
this team sucks the life out of baseball
136- I follow the logic of the premise, but that doesn’t make the reverse any more true. Just because he can’t hit doesn’t mean he is automatically bad behind the dish.
He’s a career .990 fielder in the minors and has thrown out over 30% of basestealers.
Why do you think he’s bad defensively?
IIRC, he has made some bad throws to 2nd in his limited time in MLB.
L L L L L L L = thats 7 btw
and Joe with his best Chip impression to cap it off
Joe’s spent too much time around Chip.
Such a tease.
way to pull a chip, joe
What did Joe do?
Orgasmed on a high medium range flyball from Glaus that ended the game.
pissed in his pants when troy flew out to rcf 20 feet short of the warning track
From prior thread:
Fun fact: Derek Lowe pitched a no-hitter on this date 8 years ago. Any chance he finds the magic again tonight? (And by magic, I would accept 7 innings, 2 ER).
@1:
No.
I could see Lowe giving up 2 runs in 7IP tonight – and then we’ll lose 2-1. That’s just the way it’s going.
unfortunately, I dont see Lowe getting through this lineup with much success at all. Careers vs Lowe
Holliday 32AB 18H
Ludwick 10AB 6H
Molina 15AB 5H
Pujols 20AB 7H
this is the type of game that the Braves shouldnt win, but if they do it may be a big boost for the team. They have their work cut out for them tonight
That’s okay boy, won’t feed Melky when you can?
If Lowe doesn’t give up 2 runs in the first that will be magic.
I’d accept a one inning no hitter from Lowe at this point.
lowe is going to be a stud for us tonight. i have that gut feeling…
melky is also going to hit a homerun and steal home. chipper, who has completed 42 hours of yoga since the jordan debacle, will be like silk out at 3rd scooping, lunging, and diving for balls.
heyward will scale the fence and rob pujols of a 450 foot homerun, then hit w/o a bat in his hand and slap a 93 mph fastball over the fence.
troy glaus will make 8 errors on 2 plays allowing 4 runners to score (unearned of course) in 2 seperate innings.
we’ll win 12-11 and derek lowe’s line will be:
7ip 0k 8bb 12h 11r 0er
ryan c: I think you’re on to something, or is that on something. not sure.
Take a load off Mel-ky.
AAANNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDD get the F*** off my team!
Look, all this is D, Lowe’s fault.
SEE:
If Lowe hadn’t signed the ridiculous offer from Wren, and then fallen old all of a sudden, Wren wouldn’t have had to dump Vazquez for the Yankee’s pupu platter offering (although Arodys might turn out OK), which would have led to Leche remaining in the Bronx.
same lineup as last night…even hudson. apparently even bobby knows that lowe-down sucks and he has chosen to pitch hudson on back to back nights. this will be interesting.
on a side note: i smoke crack
Seat Painter, of course it’s Derek Lowe’s fault. We didn’t really need that detailed an explanation- we’re pretty sure he’s responsible for everything else that’s wrong with America and several Canadian provinces.
yeah look at how great Vasquez looks right now also
yes Joe, thats exactly what John is saying. Throw it where it starts in the middle of the plate and falls away. The hitter has to think the pitch is a strike at some point
nice job Lowe and Yunel there in the 1st, just need 8 more like it to compete
I don’t think we’ve hit a home run in a week now.
Hey, good baserunning by someone in a Braves uniform…by Glaus, no less
i could have hopped on one foot to 3rd on that play. you suck, troy.
Hey, Melky drives in a run!
Even Melky’s RBI hits suck.
The Melk Man delivers.
Keep it up, boys. Gonna need all of it.
i dont know if i’ve ever seen someone almost get thrown out at home after the ball was cut off at the mound…hilarious.
anyway, WAY TO GO MELKY!
Alright, guys. We scored a run. Time to mentally go home for the night.
Melky and Lowe… bringing the lumber.
nm
Lowe for first base!
The rest of the lineup is not doing so well, but the pitchers are on fire in the last 3 games.
(On fire being a relative term.)
Someone make sure hell is still hot.
You may be on to something here with the Melky-bashing threads, Mac.
He went 2 for 4 last night, too.
There is a reason the braves keep Yunel around, and that catch was an example of why.
Is there a more futile contest than the air tran home run inning?
It’s like Powerball at this point.
OH MY GOD DEREK LOWE PITCHED BACK TO BACK 1-2-3 INNINGS.
I’m running for the storm shelter.
You gotta do something with that swing on the house.
So, Salty’s been sent back to the minors. Of all the guys in that trade, who’d’a thunk he would have been the one not to pan out. Of course, Max Ramirez has been called up to replace him, but that’s another story.
Tyler Flowers, Max Ramirez, and Jarrod Saltalamacchia walk into a bar… where they take turns sticking pins into a Brian McCann voodoo doll.
McGwire sure aged fast after quitting the ‘roids.
Pitcher batting 8th. LaRussa reminds us again that he’s still managing the St. Louis Cardinals.
LaRussa with that crazy pitcher batting 8th thing – If Carpenter can outhit Ryan, you really might be overvaluing defense.
Ahh, got me!
A lot of line up optimization tools have the pitcher hitting 8th as the most optimal line up.
We need to get this run home in a bad way.
That should still be a balk.
Piece of shit!
that was at least a foot outside
holy shart, that wasnt close to a strike.
He called it where it was caught.
@40 – that just seems counterintuitive – I get that having a player of some skill batting in front of your number 1 hitter has value, but surely that would be outweighed by the difference in AB’s over the course of the season, and the corresponding black hole from 7 to 9. I am far from an authority though. How does it work?
and it starts…will it end?
Lowe can’t allow homers.
Bobby’s about to get 155
Well St Louis is going to hit some. Let’s hope he can at least keep them to solo shots.
@47
More at bats for the 8th hitter vs the 9th hitter isn’t as big of a deal as it would at first appear since a good number of those 8th slot appearances will end up being taken by pinch hitters.
@52, but wouldn’t that be true regardless of 8 or 9? It would seem to cancel each other out.
47,
I don’t know how it works, I’m just saying that’s what they tell you.
I don’t necessarily trust them, either.
I think what he’s saying is that the number of PAs wouldn’t be as different (with pitchers getting more PAs) as they seem because pitchers get PH for anyway.
it sux when your teams winning and you still feel theyre at a disadvantage.
how in the world did bobby not get ejected? i’ve never seen such explicits.
The umpire must have felt that he missed it.
Credit though – 1 run through 5 is pretty danged good improvement for Lowe.
New poll.
@53
Definitely. If there is an advantage one way or another it’s got to be pretty small. I thought you were saying that batting the pitcher 8th would lead to more pitcher at bats over the course of a season and I was responding to that. Sorry if that’s not what you meant.
It was, and I think the “smallness of difference” point you make is probably the most important one.
Actually, Joe, Oquendo will be a manager, and a GM, and a scout, and a hitting instructor, and a color commentator…
So, how long does Bobby stay with Lowe?
This team is killing me.
Somehow seems like I’ve seen this story before…
I vote leave them both where they are. I’m disappointed with Glaus (wasn’t too pleased with the signing in the first place and hate the fact that he’s wearing Andruw’s number which should go up next to Spahn’s a few years down the line) but it’s way too early to do anything drastic. I don’t really get the Melky hate either. Diaz earned a starting job with his performances over the past two seasons and I’d obviously reather have Vazquez than Melky but the fact that Melky plays way too often for a 4th OF is not his fault. It’s not the player’s fault that he sucks. It’s the manager’s fault for playing the sucky player and the GM’s fault for signing the sucky player and/or not sending him in the minor leagues where he belongs. Be mad at the Braves for being too cheap to pony up for Vazquez or for being too cheap to pay someone enough to take Derek Lowe off their hands but I think we should lay off Melky (and Glaus) for at least a little while longer.
Chipper took too long to turn that.
I can’t ever watch Rasmus play without remembering that the rumor was that we were going to draft him… and took Joey Devine instead.
It’s been a few hours since Yadier Molina has hurt us. He’s probably due.
64 — Too long.
My hate intensifies.
Oh good lord. In the words of Homer Simpson, ‘scuse me while I kiss the sky.
Umpire is starting to squeeze Lowe. Then Lowe gives in and makes a terrible pitch.
Bobby should have had O’Flarety up to pitch to Rasmus.
Or it could be more of Lowe and less of Yadi, either way.
When voting in the poll, don’t forget that if Chipper does a better job the Braves get out of the inning tied…
This series has not helped my arguments that Brian McCann is the most valuable catcher in the NL.
Can we start rooting for the Rays yet instead?
omg…
Nice catch, Melky.
Remember that time back in June ’06 when we lost 10 striaght games? Let’s see if we can pass that one.
75- I’d rather have Ross catching every day than Omar playing third.
we’ve had 2 plays this inning that arent errors but good defensive teams make and its cost us 3 runs.
It’s hardly worth it…but…BOOOOOOOOOO
I like it….a team goal. Something to strive for. Let’s do it!
82 — Actually, Prado would be at 3rd and Infante at 2nd…and the team much better defensively.
McLouth sucks.
I wonder if that sequence made hit the pitcher 8th believers out of Jim and Don. They were going on about how hitting the pitcher 8th screws the 7th hitter because he’ll be pitched around. You saw/heard the rest. I’m fully in agreement that the benefit is most likely very small but even if the advantage is only one a year, it’s still worth doing in my mind.
I wish I had some reason to think the Braves might get some runs here.
that was lucky
86- I think Ross is a more of a defensive upgrade of McCann than Prado is over Chipper or Omar over Prado. Also, I like Ross’s bat over Omar’s.
The Braves are playing so poorly right now that Chief Nocahoma won’t come on the board to badmouth them.
chipper better gets this runner in
91 — I don’t. I think that infield defense is more important than catcher defense, and that there probably wouldn’t be much offensive difference between Ross and Infante.
cmon McCann help them out
You could fill in basically any noun there for a true statement. One run, One dollar, One coke, etc.
Really smoked that one.
The other question: Who would you rather have on the bench, Diory Hernandez or Clint Sammons?
Hey, guys– I’m watching on GameCast, which has the Braves listed as having one out. Is that a mistake, or did someone get out?
That cell phone company is really going to get their money’s worth for sponsoring pitching changes this series.
98 — It would probably be Thurston since Sub-Zero’s on the DL, FWIW.
The Braves are just going to tease us and lose by one.
Watch
You’d need someone who can play shortstop. Brandon Hicks?
Mclouth is the out in this inning
103 –Infante could move over to short.
same amount of hits as the cards and they have two errors but lead this game, thats my powerless braves
@104- Thanks. GameCast doesn’t list his at-bat this inning. Weird.
Chip – yep, he hit a weak grounder to start off the inning. I guess Gamecast decided that we should be able to guess that McLouth did nothing special
cmon Heyward draw a walk
Boy, Tony ain’t afraid to burn a pitcher, is he?
This inning… Why can’t MLB do something about all the pitching changes? This is nuts.
@109
Burn’em if you got’em!
I can’t wait for LaRussa to retire.
I hate this team.
heyward might just K looking more than anyone Ive ever seen. Swing the bat kid
Heyward hasn’t had a hit in a while… why not pull him for Diaz once the lefty comes in?
Great managing, TLR. I don’t know how anyone held us down the other 6 games without using a pitcher for every hitter.
Ugh. Heyward come on.
@110
Because MLB likes to make them $$$. Every time someone changes pitchers mid inning, an MLB team gets paid to run an add or three.
Heyward’s average is down to .224.
Other than Prado, the highest batting average in the lineup is Chipper at .259
Kris Medlen is turning out to be a pretty good pitcher for us
Sammons is good enough to be a tolerable backup catcher (If for no other reason than the bar is so low)
Both Diory and Thurston have been pretty brutal with the stick in the bigs.
so we PH for McLouth against the lefty, but Diaz cant face the LH with the bases loaded
Sammons has been pretty brutal with the bat in Triple A, and hasn’t shown much defensively.
123 — Yeah, whatever happened with all of that talk about easing Heyward in and not making him face all of these tough lefties?
Melky is now 2 for 22 right handed. Switch hitter my ass.
I’m just wondering, is there anyone out there who can tell me what teh NINETEEN NINETY TWO FIRING ORDER IS FOR MY PICKUP!?!!?!???!
There’s Diaz’s first walk of the season.
Second, actually.
doesn’t larussa have another lefty he could bring in?
hinske must be even slower than mccann
cmon yunel, i got a feeling this is our last shot
Typical.
just to recap
Nate cant get a runner in from 3rd with one out
Melky cant catch a fly ball that hits him in the wrist
Chipper cant turn a DP
Heyward cant get the bat off his should with the bases loaded
this team does have to be perfect in order to win
-124 I thought Sammons had pretty good defensive rep. You’re right though about the bat; I didn’t realize it was that terrible. Not really a good answer anywhere.
Like Mac has said in the past, catchers often get a good defensive reputation if they can’t hit, just because people rationalize that they’re good at something.
Brandon Hicks is probably the most useful non-OF, non-P on the AAA roster. Maybe Barbaro Canizares.
sucks that we have no one to run for chipper, not that it will matter. When was the last time Bmac got a hold of one?
Omar could run for him.
Even when we do get a hard-hit ball, it’s just foul or right at someone.
this team sucks the life out of baseball
136- I follow the logic of the premise, but that doesn’t make the reverse any more true. Just because he can’t hit doesn’t mean he is automatically bad behind the dish.
He’s a career .990 fielder in the minors and has thrown out over 30% of basestealers.
Why do you think he’s bad defensively?
IIRC, he has made some bad throws to 2nd in his limited time in MLB.
L L L L L L L = thats 7 btw
and Joe with his best Chip impression to cap it off
Joe’s spent too much time around Chip.
Such a tease.
way to pull a chip, joe
What did Joe do?
Orgasmed on a high medium range flyball from Glaus that ended the game.
pissed in his pants when troy flew out to rcf 20 feet short of the warning track
Recrapped.