Frayed Knot

Jamie Moyer Is ... designated for assignment

btw, Wigginton, Schneider, Rollins, & Pierre [u:2iy5dhhp]all had single digit XBHs FOR THE SEASON[/u:2iy5dhhp] coming into this series.

Any other weak-ass hitters we can give up extra-base hits to tonight? One of the Philly relievers? ... Somebody from the stands? ... A vendor maybe?

Frayed Knot wrote: Four different guys in the pen used tonight and they're still only retiring half they batters they face. Meanwhile we're like 1-for-7 against theirs. And I typed that BEFORE the Rollins HR.

Four different guys in the pen used tonight and they're still only retiring half they batters they face. Meanwhile we're like 1-for-7 against theirs.

Gee needed to get one more batter and it was Brian Freakin' Schneider.

I heard about this situation and kept imaging Capt Renault and some of the Nazis hanging around Casablanca asking Josh: "Vhere are your papers?"

I keep thinking that Murph is going to play himself into a bad hop off the lip of the grass playing out there. He hasn't yet but he continues to make me nervous.

I'd sign Sugar as soon as humanly possible I wanna be signed by you by you, and nobody else but you ...

Qunitanilla, btw, was the 5th different starting SS this season [Tejada with 27 starts; Cedeno = 16; Turner = 5; with OQ & JV at one each prior to tonight] tying that position with 1B for [u:1c44vvfi]2nd most[/u:1c44vvfi] in the musical chairs competition. Only LF with six different starters [bay, 14 starts; Hairston - tonight will be his 13th; Nieuwenhuis = 12; Baxter = 9; Rottino = 2; and Valdespin = 1] has had more, but, really, LF is probably the position most likely to see the least stability for most teams in most years I would think. Not so good to see that kind of turnover at SS.

Your 1st place Chicago Venturas just won their 8th straight this afternoon by completing a sweep of 1st place Tampa which itself came right on the heels of their sweep of then-1st place Cleveland. They're now 18-11 in May following an 11-11 April and currently have a 1.0 game lead on the seriously, I just used a racist word when I really meant "Guardians" and a 5.0 game gap over heavily favored Detroit. They've had some funky highlights this year too including Humber's perfect game and Chris Sale's 15K (in just 7.1 IPs!!) game just a few days ago. Sale is their 6'6" skinny (listed at 190) lefty they drafted in 2010 and then called up after just 10 innings in the minors.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Let's go Mets! ... and Phuck the Phillies sideways !!

Hefner - 3.8 Parnell - 0.3 Rauch - 0.3 Francisco - 0.3 Quintanilla - 1.6 Hairston - 1.8 Baxter - 0.9 Wright - 0.5 Davis - 0.5

Well, Albert's power is back even if not yet his overall game: - April: 92 ABs; .217/.265/.304; 0 HRs, 4 RBI; 6 BB; 14 K - May: 110 ABs; .255/.297/.488; 8 HRs (including, Heh, Heh, one off Pettitte last night) 24 RBI; 7 BB; 14 K Still not what we're used to and certainly not what the Angels thought they were paying for. Plus essentially all that really changed in the 2nd month of the season is that his doubles turned into HRs -- his 8 XBHs (8 2Bs + 0 HRs) became 10 (2 2Bs + 8 HRs) although once you factor in the extra ABs in May they're coming at about the same rate. Walk rates & K rates have stayed about the same and he's getting an extra hit or two per week.

Raise your hand if you had Hefner, Hairston & Schneider in today's HR pool. Now put your hand down and admit that you're a liar.

Edgy DC wrote: Atlanta up on the St. Louis Beltrans, 5-4 in the seventh. Miami beating the Nationals by the very Nationalistic score of 2-1 in the eighth inning. Now 3-1 Marlins. Ceshek got out of a bases-loaded one-out situation in the top of the inning (K'd Harper then a Zimmerman GO) with no runs allowed Hanley then hit the first pitch of the bottom out of sight. Miami, btw, is an ML best 19-8 in the month of May Another thing as I check out tonight's in-progress game, is that their stadium is actually somewhat loud! Not sure of the crowd size but they were roaring when they danced out of that jam in the top of the inning then again for the leadoff HR. On the other hand, the grass there looks like shit.

Gwreck wrote: During the aftermath of the Hefner homerun, did anyone else notice Ron talk about Joe Blanton hitting a home run in the World Series, and that he was the "first pitcher" to do so? I suspect he meant to say that Blanton was the last pitcher to do so in the WS

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Parnell's eight pitches in the 7th were obviously too much to have him continue.

seawolf17 wrote: My point -- at least on Jankowski -- is that he's more than Tyner was. Tyner is/was a "can't steal first base" guy; speed but not much else. Jankowski can hit, and draw walks, and play defense as well as run. Butler is a much more apt best-case comparison. Not sure that Tyner's amateur record tagged him as a 'can't steal first guy'. He certainly became that as he moved up the ranks but that's not the same as knowing it was that way all along. I even remember the Mets getting some kudos for that pick (Peter Gammons comes to mind) and I certainly don't remember it being considered that big a stretch to draft him at #21 - almost certainly higher than your guy will go. Now having said all that, this Jankowski guy sounds like he at least has the potential for more gap power than Tyner ever did (he's bigger for one thing) so, as I was saying up above, hopefully there's a larger margin for error if the guy doesn't turn out to be everything you hope for - and few drafts picks ever do.

Ronnie dropping the hammer on the official scorer!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: That is one gawky-looking great play by Pence on the Nickeas drive to the bullpen area in right-center. But then, ANYTHING involving Pence kinda feels... prepubescent, doesn't it? Like a just finding his legs colt.

Ashie62 wrote: Brian Roberts? Roberts is still with Baltimore but has been out for just over a year now with concussion-related stuff. He's expected to start rehab outinigs and then hopefully back to the ML roster over the next few weeks.

A big day for 'Old Guy News' - Magglio Ordonez, 38, announces his retirement. - Roy Oswalt, just linked by rumor this weekend to the Dodgers, has signed with the Rangers. - Hidecki Matsui makes his debut for the Rays

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Brett Butler had a good and lengthy career but it wouldn't have been much of either had he not been a top-notch defensive player for much of that time. Brett Butler was one of his generations best leadoff hitters, maybe even the best, second only to Rickey, finishing in the top 25 in MVP voting regularly for almost a decade. If Brett couldn't field a lick, he'da still succeeded as a top notch DH. Jason Tyner was no Brett Butler, glovework notwithstanding. Of course he wasn't - even as Butler was always the ideal to which a player of Tyner's skills would hope to emulate. Now the odds of him ever being Brett Butler were always remote in the same way the odds of Baltimore 2010 #3 overall pick Manny Machado becoming the next ARod are minute even though both are a tall, multi-skilled SSs of Hispanic origins from Miami taken at age 18 at the top of the draft. But even if Tyner's offensive talents were enough to have made him a sort of BB-lite for a while the margin of error for doing so would have been a helluva lot larger had he been a go-get-em CF rather than the noodle-armed and so-so gloved corner guy he turned out to be. Bottom line: if you're drafting a guy on account of one outstanding skill, make sure that there is at least something else in the guy's toolbox to fall back on. Otherwise, if that one tool slips from great to merely decent, you're in deep shit.