Spudboy

Hence the words seem and somewhat.

Going the other way would seem to be somewhat dependent on what pitches you see. And almost no one knows how to bunt well anymore from what I've seen.

And that was the first time that I had noticed it.

That's good stuff. We saw another example of poor fundamental play last week when Borbon (sp) back peddled and Scutaro made him pay. In fact, there are many players that don't execute routine plays the way the game is taught.

Is this shift on Drew a new thing? I don't recall it being an issue before.

True, unless it was Youk on third!

:lol: You need to fill in for Remy this year (if he misses time).

Darnell with the gap power! He should have his glove with him. He'll need it when he's stranded there.

It's more than disappointing. I see a no decision for Lester.

P.C. gave us Lou Merloni! And they had a very good Basketball program for decades.

Balls.

I guess there is no such thing as clutch hitting.

WOW!

s***** AB by McDonald.

Hall! Got to score here.

37

What's his pitch count?

Bye-bye McCoy.

Great. Lead off walks are not what Lester needs to do.

OK Marco! Now take second!

Lol. Another throng at Skydome! Why don't fans in the upper level just move down? Maybe they aren't able to.

Same here.

I heard about this the other day but just stumbled upon an article concerning the topic. April 27th, 2010 UZR owes Jason Bay an apology Posted by John Tomase at 10:42 am This slipped through the cracks, but the good folks at FanGraphs — who are constantly tweaking their formulas in an effort to make them as accurate as possible — recently tackled what many within the game considered one of the biggest flaws of UZR, or Ultimate Zone Rating, which was treated as Gospel this winter during all the discussions of defense around these parts. That flaw was UZR’s inability to handle quirky parks like Fenway, where left field and center field are of such strange configurations, they cannot be judged with a cookie cutter model. It turns out that Mitchel Lichtman, the creator of UZR, agreed, so he augmented his model to better gauge things like left field at Fenway, or right field in Minnesota, or the entire outfield at Coors, as the FanGraphs people explain. The upshot of these changes is that most players were relatively unaffected. However — and this is a big however — one player had his UZR significantly altered by the fixes, which were retroactively applied to old data: Jason Bay. The former Red Sox outfielder, who was killed all winter for his horrendous defense (which was part of the justification for letting him sign a free agent deal with the Mets) saw his UZR shift from minus-13.8 runs to plus-1.9. Bay’s play in 2009 obviously didn’t change. Only the numbers did. And the new numbers say Bay was not horribly below average last year, but in fact saved the Red Sox a couple of runs in left. It wouldn’t have made a difference as far as the Red Sox re-signing Bay — we now know that was an impossibility once their deal collapsed at the All-Star break over his medicals — but it would have at least changed the narrative. Maybe fans and media members wouldn’t have been so quick to give up on the biggest bat in the lineup if they hadn’t been able to lean on the “he can’t play defense” crutch.

Same here.