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Anyone still think Phil Hughes was a terrible joke signing? Of course he leaves the yankees, gets 4 MPH back on his fastball and stops walking people.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 14:59 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 06:19 |
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God drat he owns
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 15:21 |
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mcmagic posted:Anyone still think Phil Hughes was a terrible joke signing? Of course he leaves the yankees, gets 4 MPH back on his fastball and stops walking people. His fastball is the same as it's always been and he's never really walked anyone. I mean I realize now he is literally not walking anyone but I don't see a reason to believe he's become Greg Maddux in that regard.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 16:36 |
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But it would be hilarious and cool if he did.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 17:12 |
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Personally waiting for him to turn into a pumpkin, m'self. The only thing he can do to hope to secure some kind of future is grow a pornstache and wait for his shoulder to blow up. (Hughes is Carl Pavano, is what I'm saying here.)
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 17:21 |
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 17:36 |
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poser posted:I have said it a million times.. Sabean is the best GM in baseball. Barry Zito agrees
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 17:52 |
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Singleton is going to be called up tomorrow apparently
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 17:57 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:Singleton is going to be called up tomorrow apparently That's cool that he finally worked out all those things he needed to work out.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 17:59 |
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poser posted:I have said it a million times.. Sabean is the best GM in baseball. He's only the second best in the bay area. BB is a wizard
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 18:02 |
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MourningView posted:That's cool that he finally worked out all those things he needed to work out. Yes it's true he finally accepted a long-term deal from the team.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 18:08 |
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Abreu is coming back More dingers for the dinger god
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 18:10 |
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He was only ready to play tomorrow if he signed that contract. This shows maturity, so yes he is now ready.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 18:11 |
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Dozier turned a pretty cool 4-3 double play yesterday if you haven't seen it: http://m.mlb.com/video/v33370293/must-c-clips-brian-dozier-turns-amazing-double-play
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 18:19 |
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Are the Twins teaching Hughes any secondary pitches? I know that throwing 95% fastball is enough to stop the Yankees, but surely his luck will run out vs the rest of the majors without a useful offspeed pitch. His curve looked as lovely as ever and I read in ST that the twins ditched his slider. I always thought Hughes should learn the split finger since it is basically the perfect pitch for him (change up esque, plays off fastball, allows him to keep attacking with his FB to setup the split, not wildly used so has some secrecy vs hitters).
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 18:36 |
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Jerkface posted:Are the Twins teaching Hughes any secondary pitches? I know that throwing 95% fastball is enough to stop the Yankees, but surely his luck will run out vs the rest of the majors without a useful offspeed pitch. His curve looked as lovely as ever and I read in ST that the twins ditched his slider.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 18:41 |
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Jerkface posted:Are the Twins teaching Hughes any secondary pitches? I know that throwing 95% fastball is enough to stop the Yankees, but surely his luck will run out vs the rest of the majors without a useful offspeed pitch. His curve looked as lovely as ever and I read in ST that the twins ditched his slider. http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=7450&position=P&type=6&gds=&gde=&season=2014 It apparently also works against Boston and Detroit
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 18:50 |
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tadashi posted:Yeah, he's just throwing the fastball, cutter and curve with Pitch f/x recording a change up less than 1% of the time. I guess you could call his success somewhat legit if it's because he's ditched a bad pitch for a much better pitch but we will have to see how the league adjusts to the new Hughes. Hughes curve is really bad so thats pretty funny that he is throwing nothing but fastballs & that lovely curve still. I often wondered if there was a worse secondary pitch thrown as often as Hughes did his curve. It fools virtually no one, Hughes would be pumping swing & miss fastballs at hitters and then they'd cooly line his curve ball for a single or smash it for a double or some poo poo it was incredible how bad that pitch was considering how good his fastball is.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 18:59 |
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Jerkface posted:Hughes curve is really bad so thats pretty funny that he is throwing nothing but fastballs & that lovely curve still. I often wondered if there was a worse secondary pitch thrown as often as Hughes did his curve. It fools virtually no one, Hughes would be pumping swing & miss fastballs at hitters and then they'd cooly line his curve ball for a single or smash it for a double or some poo poo it was incredible how bad that pitch was considering how good his fastball is. I can't imagine the track record for non-Bartolo starters who only throw 2 pitches (fastball, fastball variant and curve) is very good in the long run (Bartolo isn't the best comparison here...)? It would be clever of the Twins if they're working on his slider (or a splitter) away from game situations because I'd imagine hitters will make an adjustment to him soon enough. I guess Cingrani got away with an obscene amount of fastballs last season.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 19:33 |
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Randy Johnson was a two pitch pitcher but those pitches were both 80 grade so it didn't matter
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 19:41 |
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leokitty posted:Yes it's true he finally accepted a long-term deal from the team.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 19:47 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:Randy Johnson was a two pitch pitcher but those pitches were both 80 grade so it didn't matter Just playing MVP 2005 made me terrified of Randy Johnson's slider. I can't imagine what actually trying to hit it was like.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 19:51 |
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Here is a pointless stat comp brought to you by Aaron Gleeman today. Joe Mauer through age 31: .321 AVG, .402 OBP, .463 SLG, .865 OPS Derek Jeter through age 31: .314 AVG, .386 OBP, .461 SLG, .847 OPS Counterpoint Jerkface posted:Are the Twins teaching Hughes any secondary pitches? I know that throwing 95% fastball is enough to stop the Yankees, but surely his luck will run out vs the rest of the majors without a useful offspeed pitch. His curve looked as lovely as ever and I read in ST that the twins ditched his slider. I am shocked that Hughes is doing as well as he is this season. I keep telling myself it's only a matter of time until he regresses back into himself, but ~who knows~ RembrandtQEinstein fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Jun 2, 2014 |
# ? Jun 2, 2014 20:15 |
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e:double post, whoops
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 20:17 |
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I'm not a Dodgers fan but Puig really has all of LA loving him. He's a loving cool dude and everyone in this town who isn't a dumbass loves him. And I firmly believe the dodgers go after players that are good, not taking any sort of hard marketing angle, but their team is really a loving juggernaut of LA culture. They do a great job of marketing that seems like no brainer stuff but so many teams are bad at it. Market your korean star in K-town with Korean signs. The fan strength of the hispanic fan base in Los Angeles is absurdly strong and a guy like Puig is just loving perfect.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 20:46 |
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Appointment television
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 20:47 |
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Alito talking about baseball. I can't loving wait.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 20:49 |
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soggybagel posted:I'm not a Dodgers fan but Puig really has all of LA loving him. He's a loving cool dude and everyone in this town who isn't a dumbass loves him. And I firmly believe the dodgers go after players that are good, not taking any sort of hard marketing angle, but their team is really a loving juggernaut of LA culture. They do a great job of marketing that seems like no brainer stuff but so many teams are bad at it. Market your korean star in K-town with Korean signs. The fan strength of the hispanic fan base in Los Angeles is absurdly strong and a guy like Puig is just loving perfect. It helps when he shows up at little league fields and plays catch with 10 year olds with no handlers or PR people
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 20:59 |
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Der Meister posted:It helps when he shows up at little league fields and plays catch with 10 year olds with no handlers or PR people Well yeah, this too. Puig is just a goofy man child guy the way someone like Shaq was/is. I just mean things like Dodgers fan fest stuff and the Viva los dodgers event and things like that. They fan outreach stuff they do is always good.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:04 |
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euphronius posted:Appointment television Sounds like a fine alternative to drinking draino.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:06 |
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euphronius posted:Appointment television
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:15 |
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:17 |
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euphronius posted:Appointment television I met Talmage Boston in a Barnes and Noble a few years ago. He was really mad that nobody knew who he was, since he was there signing his "Baseball for the Baby Boomer" book. Bought one just so I could give it as a low-effort gift. Dude was a complete dickhead. Wife was nice, though.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:22 |
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Well did they call it a strike or what?
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:26 |
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No :|
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:27 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:It's 5/$9.5 with three team options that could bring it to 8/$35. I'm going to be at the game where he debuts So excited Man if he pans out that's worse than the Evan Longoria deal
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:29 |
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That's not even his best instagram this week http://instagram.com/p/osEhUfjYRh/ http://instagram.com/p/osDgPEjYQK/
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:37 |
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Intruder posted:I'm going to be at the game where he debuts So excited What do you mean by "panning out" here, because he's going to have to do far more than be a serviceable/MLB average 1B for that deal to be better team value than Longoria's first buyout contract
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:39 |
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AL All-Star balloting update: CATCHER 1. Matt Wieters, Orioles: 842,775 2. Brian McCann, Yankees: 605,941 3. Derek Norris, A's: 569,752 4. Kurt Suzuki, Twins: 337,704 5. A.J. Pierzynski, Red Sox: 300,347 FIRST BASE 1. Miguel Cabrera, Tigers: 962,138 2. Jose Abreu, White Sox: 602,628 3. Albert Pujols, Angels: 569,211 4. Chris Davis, Orioles: 422,600 5. Mark Teixeira, Yankees: 326,972 SECOND BASE 1. Robinson Cano, Mariners: 726,158 2. Ian Kinsler, Tigers: 649,926 3. Dustin Pedroia, Red Sox: 540,515 4. Brian Dozier, Twins: 360,089 5. Howie Kendrick, Angels: 247,353 THIRD BASE 1. Josh Donaldson, A's: 956,811 2. Evan Longoria, Rays: 589,621 3. Adrian Beltre, Rangers: 497,876 4. Manny Machado, Orioles: 461,023 5. Brett Lawrie, Blue Jays: 268,136 SHORTSTOP 1. Derek Jeter, Yankees: 1,007,968 2. Alexei Ramirez, White Sox: 867,156 3. J.J. Hardy, Orioles: 488,948 4. Jose Reyes, Blue Jays: 310,446 5. Jed Lowrie, A's: 277,430 DESIGNATED HITTER 1. Nelson Cruz, Orioles: 888,855 2. David Ortiz, Red Sox: 766,631 3. Victor Martinez, Tigers: 625,279 4. Edwin Encarnacion, Blue Jays: 388,459 5. Alfonso Soriano, Yankees: 336,112 OUTFIELD 1. Mike Trout, Angels: 1,361,649 2. Jose Bautista, Blue Jays: 1,351,896 3. Melky Cabrera, Blue Jays: 743,208 4. Jacoby Ellsbury, Yankees: 625,206 5. Carlos Beltran, Yankees: 565,554 6. Adam Jones, Orioles: 531,882 7. Torii Hunter, Tigers: 507,424 8. Yoenis Cespedes, A's: 502,236 9. Michael Brantley, Indians: 460,384 10. Nick Markakis, Orioles: 434,228 11. Shin-Soo Choo, Rangers: 422,047 12. Alex Rios, Rangers: 337,463 13. Brett Gardner, Yankees: 336,386 14. Josh Hamilton, Angels: 304,761 15. Coco Crisp, A's: 299,400 Not enough love for Encarnacion and Brandon Moss. And they are both on the ballot as DHs despite spending most of their time at first base this year, and in 2013 as well?
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:40 |
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Crion posted:What do you mean by "panning out" here, because he's going to have to do far more than be a serviceable/MLB average 1B for that deal to be better team value than Longoria's first buyout contract This is true. Singleton hasn't played a single game at the major league level so yeah it's a bit early to make a statement like that
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 21:43 |