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cubfan531
April 10, 2010 at 05:06PM View BBCode
Silva's better than that 2003 fifth starter debacle of Shawn Estes and his golden ERA of 5.73 (which was better than the other two guys who started in that role, Juan Cruz and Sergio Mitre)
tworoosters
5.73 would have been a vast improvement over 2008/09 for Carlos.
April 10, 2010 at 05:36PM View BBCode
Have you looked at Silva's numbers for the past couple of years ?5.73 would have been a vast improvement over 2008/09 for Carlos.
BKCUBS13
April 10, 2010 at 05:57PM View BBCode
I'll take the 3 million crappy Estes over the 12 million crappy Silva. Although the fatty looked good yesterday, I do hate high contact pitchers that only have two pitches...and sometimes both pitches are identical...meaning most of the times he has 1 pitch.
sycophantman
(Hello...? Hello......?)
April 10, 2010 at 11:33PM View BBCode
Well, the White Sox aren't lighting the world on fire quite yet, are they?(Hello...? Hello......?)
cubfan531
April 10, 2010 at 11:37PM View BBCode
The White Sox are going to be the undoing of Jake Peavy. He should've stayed in that bandbox facing NL lineups, and been a legend, rather than this 2nd or 3rd starter that it looks like Kenny Williams got.
albiez
April 11, 2010 at 12:23AM View BBCode
that is not what bandbox means, in context. the opposite, in fact.
BKCUBS13
April 11, 2010 at 02:27AM View BBCode
I just heard Eduardo Perez on Baseball Tonight say, "He hit it good, up the "A" hole". What?!
cubfan531
Wow. I was a serious dumb there.
April 11, 2010 at 12:39PM View BBCode
Why did I say bandbox? I meant cavern. The Cell is a bandbox. Arlington is a bandbox. Petco's a cavern.Wow. I was a serious dumb there.
khazim
With all the talk about how good Jimenez's fastball is (hitting 100 mph on the gun is not too shabby), I think his season will sink or swim on his slider that tops out around 90. If he can consistently keep this pitch under control, he stands a chance at beating his win total from last season (15).
De La Rosa is a different story. His pitch types and control were never in question. The knock on him always was if a runner reached second base, then De La Rosa was done, mentally. He pushed past a major mental block last year and finished the year with 16 wins, almost all of them coming after Jim Tracy took over as skipper. If De La Rosa's first outing is any indication, he could be the Rockies' first 20 game winner.
The only concern I still have with this team is we still do not have a bona fide cleanup hitter on our everyday roster. Helton, wisely, was moved to batting 3rd, but Tulowitzki just doesn't have the power numbers for a true cleanup hitter. He's the closest thing Colorado has currently.
I think the NL west comes down between San Fran and Colorado. San Fran's 1-2 punch of Lincecum and Cain is among the best in the majors, but it disguises the fact that the rest of the team is quite improved over last year.
[Edited on 4-12-2010 by khazim]
April 12, 2010 at 03:42AM View BBCode
Jimenez and De La Rosa are looking dominant for the Rockies thus far this season; a huge change over last year's April. I hope this rotation can get going faster than last year.With all the talk about how good Jimenez's fastball is (hitting 100 mph on the gun is not too shabby), I think his season will sink or swim on his slider that tops out around 90. If he can consistently keep this pitch under control, he stands a chance at beating his win total from last season (15).
De La Rosa is a different story. His pitch types and control were never in question. The knock on him always was if a runner reached second base, then De La Rosa was done, mentally. He pushed past a major mental block last year and finished the year with 16 wins, almost all of them coming after Jim Tracy took over as skipper. If De La Rosa's first outing is any indication, he could be the Rockies' first 20 game winner.
The only concern I still have with this team is we still do not have a bona fide cleanup hitter on our everyday roster. Helton, wisely, was moved to batting 3rd, but Tulowitzki just doesn't have the power numbers for a true cleanup hitter. He's the closest thing Colorado has currently.
I think the NL west comes down between San Fran and Colorado. San Fran's 1-2 punch of Lincecum and Cain is among the best in the majors, but it disguises the fact that the rest of the team is quite improved over last year.
[Edited on 4-12-2010 by khazim]
Hamilton2
April 12, 2010 at 03:55AM View BBCode
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FuriousGiorge
I will never get tired of this sort of thing. I am an unabashed fan of the "first-week extrapolation" genre.
[Edited on 4-12-2010 by FuriousGiorge]
April 12, 2010 at 04:00AM View BBCode
Originally posted by khazim
Jimenez and De La Rosa are looking dominant for the Rockies thus far this season
I will never get tired of this sort of thing. I am an unabashed fan of the "first-week extrapolation" genre.
[Edited on 4-12-2010 by FuriousGiorge]
DwightKSchrute
April 12, 2010 at 04:07AM View BBCode
Well, I'm hoping that everyone who said this would be a rebuilding year for the Tigers can suck it all season long.
khazim
These guys have plain stunk in April the last couple of years. It's nice to see them start of the year right.
heck, De La Rosa didn't win a game until June of last season. ANYTHING is a vast improvement over that sort of crap start.
April 12, 2010 at 04:12AM View BBCode
Originally posted by FuriousGiorge
Originally posted by khazim
Jimenez and De La Rosa are looking dominant for the Rockies thus far this season
I will never get tired of this sort of thing. I am an unabashed fan of the "first-week extrapolation" genre.
[Edited on 4-12-2010 by FuriousGiorge]
These guys have plain stunk in April the last couple of years. It's nice to see them start of the year right.
heck, De La Rosa didn't win a game until June of last season. ANYTHING is a vast improvement over that sort of crap start.
khazim
April 12, 2010 at 05:06AM View BBCode
This season it seems that statement might be as obvious as, "The sun rises in the east."
albiez
I think the NL west comes down between [b]San Fran[/b] and Colorado. San Fran's 1-2 punch of Lincecum and Cain is among the best in the majors, but it disguises the fact that the rest of the team is quite improved over last year.
[Edited on 4-12-2010 by khazim] [/quote]
Um, no. Just no.
(Ubaldo Jimenez is MFCS awesome, though)
April 12, 2010 at 09:04AM View formatted
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[quote][i]Originally posted by khazim[/i]
I think the NL west comes down between [b]San Fran[/b] and Colorado. San Fran's 1-2 punch of Lincecum and Cain is among the best in the majors, but it disguises the fact that the rest of the team is quite improved over last year.
[Edited on 4-12-2010 by khazim] [/quote]
Um, no. Just no.
(Ubaldo Jimenez is MFCS awesome, though)
happy
I should say how the season started for the orioles:
Game 1, orioles ahead, closer blows the save, and gets the loss. Game 3, orioles ahead, closer loads the bases before finally getting the last out.
As of game 4, our closer had a 13.50 ERA (lol sample size). When he got brought in (up 1 in the 9th), everyone bood him, and then he went on to allow two runs and get bood off the field. His ERA was 18, he hasnt been pitched since.
of course now that the relief pitching has shown itself to be worthless, they try to putch Millwood into the 8th to let him lose the lead himself in game 5...
so yeah, the team is pitiful, mostly because of their bullpen. On the plus side, Wieters is .409/.458/.545 to start the season.
April 12, 2010 at 02:24PM View BBCode
So I went to Orioles opening day.I should say how the season started for the orioles:
Game 1, orioles ahead, closer blows the save, and gets the loss. Game 3, orioles ahead, closer loads the bases before finally getting the last out.
As of game 4, our closer had a 13.50 ERA (lol sample size). When he got brought in (up 1 in the 9th), everyone bood him, and then he went on to allow two runs and get bood off the field. His ERA was 18, he hasnt been pitched since.
of course now that the relief pitching has shown itself to be worthless, they try to putch Millwood into the 8th to let him lose the lead himself in game 5...
so yeah, the team is pitiful, mostly because of their bullpen. On the plus side, Wieters is .409/.458/.545 to start the season.
happy
April 12, 2010 at 02:24PM View BBCode
(also, Nick Markakis has a comical line of .167/.444/.278. 1 single, 2 doubles, 9 walks, wtfs?)
BKCUBS13
April 12, 2010 at 05:09PM View BBCode
Boo hoo, the cubs should be 5-1 right now if wasn't for blown leads by the bullpen in 3 games. All I got to say is thank god for the NHL.
happy
April 12, 2010 at 05:14PM View BBCode
yeah, but the cubs dont suck. The orioles need to get lucky early in the season to give us hope, so that at least half the season is worth watching. Id much rather them end the season going 3-32 than start it.
FuriousGiorge
April 12, 2010 at 05:17PM View BBCode
The Cubs are not particularly good at Base Ball either.
happy
April 12, 2010 at 05:22PM View BBCode
2nd in the division last year, 1st the previous two years.