you get the first two batters on you should be able to just luck into a run once and a while... just pathetic...

i'm kinda afraid Nix's pinch hitting success is due for the ol' regress to the mean

that is the fourth time tonight, Chooch has framed and held onto a pitch expecting a strike call and didn't get one.

predictable

kirk gibson

Wheels needs more time at telestrator school

If you are comparing Young and Schierholtz honestly you can't look at either player as everyday guys. Schierholtz has NO power... none against LHP. That's one thing Young should do well. As for against RHP where most of the ABs will come. Since they both hit homers at the same rate against righties (1 every 42 ABs) I'm guessing that Scheirholtz has a more speed which turns more singles into doubles and doubles into triples than Young which gets you the 20 points in slugging. So you add it up... you have Platoon options in Nix and Mayberry both who you would pay less than NS and Young who should give you a little less production against righties but MUCH more against Lefties. And if you really have a tough RH you can sub in Nix (unless you had a different MGR). It just happens that NS is playing out of his mind right now in a platoon situation. I would be surprised if he kept it up over the season. (of course that's basing it solely on the handful abs in a Phillies uni last year.) I'm not happy about Delmon young playing everyday, but if the alternative was NS's career numbers... bleh...

yeah lets kill howard for that play... 1. He got down the line pretty good for him... 2. He hit the ball pretty hard and the 2nd basemen was positioned in maybe the deepest shift ever... but yeah... lets criticize him for that... un real this place

Howard's AB/HR ratio this year is just 19.5. He's been around 17 or 18 in the last couple of years and a far cry when it was in the 12's. He's really heating up right now and has 5 home runs in his last 44 AB (8.8). Pretty nice stretch.

non-elite power

The Giants keep different records for when they are in SF and keep it separate from New York Giants?

we'll score that one 1-U

UTZ!

Gee its almost as if you should start Nix against RHP all the time?

Great play by KK. Team looks "frisky" tonight

@Sophist -- I know.. .636 actually... i was assuming Dave would consider walks to be negative since he thinks Brown is not clutch and chooses to use batting average often when dissing him.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=browndo01&year=2013&t=b @Dave -- I'd look at those splits again... all the hitters counts Brown favors VERY well... It's starting 3-0 that gets him in to trouble.... after which he's 1-5 with 6 walks. But for after 2-0, 2-1, 3-1 the numbers are pretty darn good

I went to a baseball game and a Hitchcock movie broke out

I think Dom will be just fine

pretty sure the backup catcher is Frandsen... as you'll see him catch warmups while the catcher gets on his gear. (Last week, I swear I saw Frandsen just get in his crouch and then Kratz come running out and it looked like he was annoyed he didn't take the pitch... ) I would expect if Charlie's last ditch effort is to make Galvis the Cookie Rojas of this generation... we'll see Galvis take some balls behind the plate.

POW. Dom! POW. Mayberry!

""Attendance is a larger factor of our revenue than for other clubs because of our marketplace." also they are working on an older TV deal...

repost from last thread: Also... limit the number of check swing appeals... I sat on the third base line during Halladay-Harvey game. Last time the Mets were in town, Buck appealed to third literally every pitch. Whether the bat was off the shoulder or not. A couple of times the home plate ump ignored him, and buck stood there looking down to third as the the 3b ump just shook his head as in... "yeah... not this time" I get that the home plate ump doesn't have the best angle at it... but it shouldn't be a question every pitch. [Of course, when its Ryan Howard, if he lifts his bat off his shoulder its an automatic strike] A couple more unserious ways to shorten games: -- Limit the around the horn after bases empty strikeouts. -- Forget throwing pitches during IBB -- Remove the home run trot. Ball leaves the park. everyone just head to the dugout. -- Pitchers must use ball thrown to them from ump, cannot discard any. -- One pitch warm up for reliever mid-inning. No throw to second.

Also... limit the number of check swing appeals... I sat on the third base line during Halladay-Harvey game. Last time the Mets were in town, Buck appealed to third literally every pitch. Whether the bat was off the shoulder or not. A couple of times the home plate ump ignored him, and buck stood there looking down to third as the the 3b ump just shook his head as in... "yeah... not this time" A couple of unserious ways to shorten games: -- Limit the around the horn after bases empty strikeouts. -- Forget throwing pitches during IBB -- Remove the home run trot. Ball leaves the park. everyone just head to the dugout. -- Pitchers must use ball thrown to them from ump, cannot discard any. -- One pitch warm up for reliever mid-inning. No throw to second. I get that the home plate ump doesn't have the best angle at it... but it shouldn't be a question every pitch. [Of course, when its Ryan Howard, if he lifts his bat off his shoulder its an automatic strike]

What might be more likely is firing Charlie to appease an apathetic fanbase... maybe you catch some lightening for a while and put people back in the seats... Although it would likely take at least till July to happen... unless we lose 20 games in May