Comments on: Baseball’s silly season is about to begin

By: driver8

driver8 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:51:11 +0000

its in in the 2nd inning if you want to watch that …

By: driver8

driver8 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:49:53 +0000

im sure this has been said but Game 7 vs. the Twins is on MLB.TV

By: Frank Wren Is A Tease « Test

Frank Wren Is A Tease « Test — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:30:41 +0000

[...] Wren Is A Tease By g2-e66c7e3dc477a1f264b9c1b20b267c0d David O’Brien quotes Frank Wren: “We’re prepared [to make some offers]. Prior to [the GM meetings next week in] [...]

By: Wednesday Wanderings: Lots o’ Links « Test

Wednesday Wanderings: Lots o’ Links « Test — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:26:05 +0000

[...] there was a ton of interest in Soriano, it became easier and easier for the Braves to offer him. Frank Wren says that LaRoche did not receive an offer because the Braves want to see how the market for LaRoche and other first base options develops [...]

By: evil monkey

evil monkey — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:09:09 +0000

DOB –

Is the Xavier Nady “story” a ruse to draw attention away from the Braves signing Ross Gload tonight (or early tomorrow)?

By: N8

N8 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:03:23 +0000

P.W. Hjort, I’ll answer you on the other blog, as to not get stuck going back and forth between the two blogs.

By: P. W. Hjort

P. W. Hjort — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:57:45 +0000

Are you really, honestly, no bullsh!t telling me that there is a stat out there or a stat analysis system, that claims that a guy like Adam Dunn is only worth about 2-3 wins per year for a team that has no cleanup hitter, and plenty of pitching if they rid themselves of Derek Lowe’s contract?

Dunn hit 38 HR, slugged at a .529 pace with an OPS of .928 last year.

Well, he has a 6-win bat, but there are other things involved in production. Like fielding, where he’s a -2-3 win player, and baserunning, where he sucks, and position scarcity, and he plays a position with a very high replacement level.

By: N8

N8 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:53:40 +0000

Just counting HR, our cleanup and 5th place hitters hit 43 HR last year. Mac had 21 HR (20 batting cleanup, 1 batting 5th).

Insert Dunn at cleanup and drop Mac to 5th. Assuming the stats remain the same, that gives us 59 HR in the 4th and 5th hole of the lineup.

Anybody out there honestly think with all the low scoring games last year that we choked away, that 16 more HR in the middle of our order are only good for 2 or 3 more wins?

Now on to OPS. Our cleanup hitters had a combined OPS of .808 last year, and the 5th place hitters had an OPS of .739.

If you put Dunn 4th (.928 OPS) and Mac 5th (.834) for the majority of those AB’s, I’ve got to believe that the results for the offense, change drastically.

Not to mention all the people blaming poor protection on Chipper’s bad year, his results would have been different, not?

By: David O'Brien

David O'Brien — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:46:56 +0000

NEW BLOGGAGE !!!

By: P. W. Hjort

P. W. Hjort — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:46:28 +0000

you might have a very good point there, but i know that Bobby has liked him a lot since Montreal days

I didn’t see him pitch in ‘08, but I’m sure the MLB scouts were impressed, too, seeing how well he pitched in ‘09.