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Bay stole on Molina? Was he concentrating too much on framing pitches?

YabbaDabba isn't getting the JtC strikezone. That's a shame.

I keep Jeemer in for another inning. Cano's LH, and I want switch hitters to hit RH this park.

Pedro hasn't pitched on this team since 2004. Get the f*** over it.

I've been around enough users to spot somebody who's geeking out on something. JtC had the look. It wasn't flat-out, but it was there. No proof, but it wouldn't shock me if he's a hype.

Jose still gets confused by all the words that mean two things in English. http://www.yeoldecuriosityshop.com/catalog/images/FramedBat.jpg

This sentence is bursting at the seams with win.

Funny stuff. http://brooksbaseball.net/pfx/zoneplotn.php?xml=http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2009/month_05/day_05/gid_2009_05_05_bosmlb_nyamlb_1//pbp/pitchers/277417.xml&sp_type=1

Power seems to have returned to Kalish's game. It disappeared last year when he was recovering from hamate bone surgery. .300/.452/.488, 8 XBH (3 HR), 8/2 SB/CS in 80 ABs, laser rocket arm, etc.

Typical Lopez outing: 5 pitch walk single HBP 1-2-5 double-play 4 pitch walk pitching change K by relieving pitcher Line: 0.2 IP, 0.00 ERA, 4.5 WHIP, 2000 doses of pepto, 2500 hershey squirts induced, 7000 thrown remotes, 3 kicked televisions Bye, Javy.

http://www.everythinggraduation.com/images/prod/graduation-portrait-frame.jpg Oh wait, you said pitches. Nevermind.

Who brought strawman up, again? That little tangent was initiated by you. You played, what, high school baseball, Gom? Alert the press.

********, you quoted a tangential comment that had nothing to do with this. You still don't know what stawman means, and you got caught using it wrong.

Apparently, despite this having been explained to you ad nauseum, you still don't get the term. Quick, find where I assigned a tought to you that wasn't what you said in that particular post. You can't, because it isn't there. Therefore, not a strawman. Do this analysis, where you look to see if someone has misrepresented what you said, each time you want to use the term "strawman". Backup catchers are all pretty much the same. Good on the defensive side, usually better behind the plate than the starter, and pretty weak with the bat. It's clear that I'm talking about the similarity between Flaherty and Molina in this regard. You are taking the terms literally, when common sense would see this is what I'm doing (as I've mentioned before, you lack this trait, so having to explain this is no surprise). Flaherty doesn't identify with the type of player Posada is, so no, if he were arbitrarily made the backup against convention, Flaherty wouldn't be giving him hyperbolic praise. You are like the little engine that couldn't. I'll give you some credit trying to draw a comparable situation there, but in typical fashion, common sense elluded you, and you were wrapped in the cold embrace of failure.

How does Posada get blamed for the 7th inning?

Surprised nobody else brought this up yet, but isn't it to be expected for a career backup catcher to overinflate the value of a current career backup catcher? I wonder what Alex Cora thinks of the value of utility players.

The 20 wins is a meaningless number. Stop bringing it up. He pitched better in 2001 by the measures of ERA, K/9, and WHIP yet only won 17 games. There are 3 major factors a pitcher can't really control that impact who wins or loses a game. One is BABIP/defense, two is what his offense does, and the last is how the bullpen performs in his game. It's childish to keep supporting your lame argument with such a worthless stat.

In a year in which more than one catcher caught more than 30 games, and one of them was Molina, last year was the first time he lead his team in OPS against since 2004. The difference in league hitting after the first pitch is greater than .200 OPS between that pitch being called a ball or strike. After subsequent counts, the difference increases. If "stealing" strikes was a true talent, and Molina was inarguably the best (Gom's words), he would lead his team every year, without exception. Last year was the first time in 5 years. Gom will ignore this. Carry on.

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