IGT 4/29/13 Mets at Fish

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: He doesn't have no arm, but experience tells me that Baxter at his best reaches about average with his arm.

'Average' is kind IMO, and when you put him in the subset of RFers it becomes well below that.
As a RFer he'd make a good LFer

[Fman99]

This thread is funny, and sad. Like a clown's funeral.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: He doesn't have no arm, but experience tells me that Baxter at his best reaches about average with his arm. 'Average' is kind IMO, and when you put him in the subset of RFers it becomes well below that. As a RFer he'd make a good LFer

Well, like I said, I'm talking about him at his best.

My greater notion is that the real sin was not that they played less-than-flawless defense (my pissness about Cowgill aside), but that they didn't hit more.

A team with a one-run lead should not be focused on protecting that lead with perfection, but on explanding on it with violent offensive mayhem.

Even if you are perfect one night, protecting a one-run lead for six innings, taking the resources of the whole team to play a brand of clean, polished, old-fashioned baseball that was never the standard anywhere ever, they'll come out of it too emotionally and physically drained to offer a similar effort the next day.

When every pitch has the outcome of the game on it for as much as ten innings at a time, who can grow and thrive in such a climate?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ceetar wrote: metirish wrote: Interesting take Ceetar, no excuse for poor fundies if that was the case. It definitely wasn't. he caught it flat footed and took a step back to get to that spot, but he had take to take a couple more back and get ready to go forward, even just a step as he caught it might have been enough to get the ball to the plate on a hop at worst, hell, the 'edging back to throw' motion before the catch might have had Dobbs decide not to go.

I noticed this, too.

The truly nettlesome thing was, he had time to circle and get in position behind it, pre-catch. Just... odd.

[Lefty Specialist]

I turned it off after nine. I've seen this movie before, and it always ends unspeakably. Surprised only in that it took another six innings which must have been like watching a Shakespearean death scene.

[ashie62]

Lotsa minor league talent playing MLB...Pretty simple actually...