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Everything posted by a700hitter

  1. a700hitter
    I agree.
  2. a700hitter
    Wright was doing better than Masterson, Miley, Kelly and Porcello.
  3. a700hitter
    Your vodka is less flammable than our pitchers' stuff.
  4. a700hitter
    Kelly needs to go to the pen. Give Masterson at most 2 starts. If we see more of the same, he should be released.
  5. a700hitter
    I think he is on U.N.'s Whaambulance.
  6. a700hitter
    Don't get discouraged. It is our new pitching strategy, trying to exhaust the opposing lineup by having them run the bases in the hot weather until they collapse in the late innings.
  7. a700hitter
    It's not Kelly's fault. He doesn't want to throw all of those meatballs over the middle of the plate. The devil makes him do it. Kelly is not calling the pitches.
  8. a700hitter
    No it is not Kelly's fault. It is the fault of all those pitches that he throws over the middle of the plate.
  9. a700hitter
    Kelly is a bulldog. His competitiveness is driving him to equal Porcello's ERA.
  10. a700hitter
    Israel, be careful, calling the strategy and pitching staff horrible can be interpreted as a personal insult by those who disagree with you.
  11. a700hitter
    Labeling a post as an excuse is a personal insult? SnC, glad you are on ignore.
  12. a700hitter
    The pitcher controls what he throws and when he throws it. Any speculation otherwise is a desparate attempt to find an excuse.
  13. a700hitter
    He had a slightly higher k rate in 2013, so I can't conclude that his k rate of 7 is the reason. I really don't care to hear an explanation from Farrell or Porcello. I just want them to fix it if they think they have figured it out. If they have discovered the reason, it shouldn't take half a season to fix.
  14. a700hitter
    He increased his k rate to 7.2 in 2013 and his performance dramatically improved. I am not buying that his k rate of 7.0 this season has messed him up so badly. A loss of command can be the first sign of arm trouble. That's as likely to me as any of these other speculative excuses. I am just not buying that it is taking him half a season to make this adjustment. Sorry, but to me it is BS.
  15. a700hitter
    i am not questioning your statistics. They are just not an excuse for Porcello's or the team's performance. It would be like a lawyer defending his client against an assault charge be arguing to the jury that his client missed his morning coffee, missed his train and was going to be late for work and would lose his job as a defense for slugging the victim when he bumped into him. All the fact are accurate, but the defense isn't valid. Porcello is not a victim of bad defenses and worse luck on both the Tigers and the Red Sox. As pointed out, Verlander, Scherzer, Anibel Sanchez, and Doug Fister all had success with the Tigers. Porcello was the #4 guy on those staffs because that is where he belonged. They all had the same team behind them.
  16. a700hitter
    sometimes there is no defense and defending the indefensible just looks like homerism.
  17. a700hitter
    Scherzer, Verlander and Anibel Sanchez all prospered with that same defense. Also, Doug Fister did very well with that defense behind him. Lots of excuses are being made for Porcello and Cherrington's misplaced faith and investment in him.
  18. a700hitter
    They must be looking to really stack their pen. They just signed Soriano.
  19. a700hitter
    As presently constituted, this team will be lucky to play .500 ball the rest of the way. More likely they wil collapse down the stretch and lose more than 90 games again. If they want to have any chance at all of sniffing competitive baseball, they wil need to make some significant moves. If they don't make moves soon, they will be toast and their only hope will be having a Joe Hardy moment. The lack of roster moves to this point is beginning to make me think that the owners are writing this season off and that they will rebuild this team under new management after cleaning house. When the season started, I expected that at best we could play .500 ball and stay with the pack until they obtained some in season reinforcements. I am never comfortable with that strategy, because you find yourself where we are if some things go wrong. This doesn't shock me at all. It does disappoint me.
  20. a700hitter
    He is not a 5+ ERA pitcher, but even if he makes the jump to 3.8, that is not good enough to be a top of the rotation pitcher. That is precisely why it was a bad move to rely on him to anchor our staff. Even in the best case scenario, he is not good enough.
  21. a700hitter
    I'll take what you say as a given about Porcello and counter that even at that level our staff would be bad because the staff as a whole would still have an ERA around 4. That is not mediocre. It is bad.
  22. a700hitter
    He's a 4 or 5. We have three other guys for those slots. We have no #1 or 2. It is even shaky to say that we have a #3. This was pretty clear when the season started. None of the 5 guys were stepping up an throwing well in the Spring.
  23. a700hitter
    Scherzer has pitched fewer innings than Porcello.
  24. a700hitter
    There is not a shred of evidence that they meddled with his approach. His k ratio in 2013 was almost identical to this season. It improved from 5.5 to 7 and along with that increase, he lowered his WHIP and ERA significantly. He dropped down to a 5.7 k rate last season and is back up to 7 thus season, but this time it didn't come along with an improvement in his other numbers. The meddling argument is a baseless rationalization to avoid the fact that he just isn't very good. That is why we got him for Cespedes. Top of the rotation pitchers don't get traded for the likes of Cespedes.
  25. a700hitter
    I saw Bert Blyleven pitch. Porcello is no Bert Blyleven.
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