I’ve been watching enough. His stats were surprising when I looked them up while he was blowing a game over the weekend. He’s just not a guy who passes the eye test for me. Perhaps I’m biased because he’s a hoopie, or I compare him to guys like Melancon when he was the 8th inning guy here. Either way, let’s hope he improves. He’s got sexy velocity that’s for sure.
Well if his stats surprised you, then perhaps you weren't watching enough. He's been quite good at holding leads going into the 9th.
I don't know what Hedges' caught stealing rate is, but I do know the league average is around 20%. So, if he has caught 4 out of 20, that would be average.
Yeah I guess I haven’t watched enough but I thought I was. He certainly made me nervous every time I’ve seen him, including the last two appearances. Yikes.
Yikes. But hey, when I go negative, you know it’s saying something because it’s not often.
OK. That is a bit below average. Not sure how much.
With both Davis and Rodriguez at Indianapolis, his days of handling pitchers may be numbered.
Stallings on the Pirates never did anything to deserve my ire, but I actually rooted against him because of his old man! Shame on me!!
Tony Pena, Manny Sanguillen, Milt May, Jim Pagliaroni.
Hedges made two excellent throws on Ruiz. The first steal was successful not due to Hedges, but because Oviedo was slow to the plate.
The nice thing with these two, they can at least get at bats everyday with the DH
A relief pitcher can't have a good outing all the time. He just has to be good most of the time. In the case of Holderman, he's in the latter category.
Ha! I was just talking about him tonight. People are calling the talk shows and saying O’Neill Cruz will be like a trade deadline day acquisition for this team. Yet there are no guarantees he will be any better than Suwinsky AND he’s coming off a major injury. If ever there was a fanboy take, that’s it.
Not for nothing, but for whatever reason, your handle choice and the interesting addition of the exclamation point really just made me laugh, actually out loud. Again I can’t even explain why that is, it is just funny. Kudos…
Suwinski is at best a platoon player. He's adequate defensively in all 3 outfield positions, but at the plate, he's helpless against left handed pitchers.
That's crazy talk. O'Neil is an unproven raw talent. I have no expectations of him when he returns beyond what he has done so far and that is to be a slightly above the Mendoza line hitter with a ton of power potential. I can't see him making the team much better when he returns. Having said that, I do think there is still a chance that he will realize his potential at some point. But until that happens, Gregory Polanco will be in the back of my mind.
Well, they both obviously graduated from the same Dominican Republic school of sliding!
Kendall, another name I think of often when all these debates about Hayes and Reynolds contracts come up.
I mean, if people are ok with Hayes's offense, Suwinski is much more the modern hitter. F batting average, chicks dig the long ball. Jack Suwinski is 26th in the NL in OPS and OPS+ (whatever that is) and the Athletic had him as an NL All Star in an article yesterday.
I have no problem with Suwinski against RHP. He is worthless against lefties.
| H | A | W | L | Remaining Games | ||
| AL | East | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 3 |
| Central | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |
| West | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | |
| Total | 9 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 18 | |
| H | A | W | L | Remaining Games | ||
| NL | East | 17 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 30 |
| Central | 19 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 38 | |
| West | 6 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 16 | |
| Total | 42 | 42 | 21 | 11 | 84 |
Neither did the previously-mentioned Pagliaroni (acquired via trade with the Red Sox; I'm old enough to remember that).
Like Smokey Burgess who came from the Reds I believe.
