Dont know how many others saw this, but it was describing how important a stat the LOB thing is or isnt. What I found not so suprising is that we have 2 of the top 5 batters for leaving men on base so far in 2008. Number 1? Santa Glaus come on down. Number 5? Pujols. Pujols was a bit of a suprise, but then no one is pitching to him with men on base.

for those who have subscription and havent seen it: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7510

This guy cracks me up.

Just thought I’d share

I had A Labrum repair and two types of cartilage repaired on the 31st of January(non dominant arm). Not sure about rotator area which is what the article makes it seem like, but mine is a slow healing area due to not enough blood flow. Im still on light duty, can do repetitve motion without pain, but cant put weight on it without pain. Im regaining motion but its a slow process. They told me overall about 6 months and from what i understand thats common with alot of shoulder type injuries.

4 months puts him at sept, so I doubt we will see TJ, but you never know hes a tad younger and im not 100% on what exactly he’s having done.

Put up this line for Memphis today:

7 IP; 6 H; 0 R; 1 BB, 6 K

His ERA at AAA so far (only two games, I realize) is 0.69 with a GO/AO ratio of 2.38 and a 12/1 K/BB rate in 13 innings.

that is the question

that means some franklins right there

how long are we talkin here?

and he pitches against the Cubs tonight

the “no news is good news” cliche doesn’t seem to apply to Cardinal pitchers.

the pirates are almost .500 and there starter has an e.r.a. under 4? wtf

I know that its common for managers to put their worst OF defender in LF. Why is that?

It seems like more balls are put into play in LF than in RF, so why not put your better defender in LF where he’ll have a chance to make more plays?

Is it just so you have a better arm in RF? If that’s the case, it seems like the RF’s arm would come into play much less than the LF’s glove.

I’d put Ludwick in LF and let Barton or Duncan play in RF.

to keep runners from going from first to 3rd on hits to right, naturally. but the throw home is no longer. only other thing is you probably have more opposite field hits to right because of more right handed batters. But you are right when we chose up for back alley games as a kid, the smallest was told by the biggest to “take right Field” while everybody else laughed.

More and more impressed with him every game.

swings at a lot of 1st pitches

not so good in the lead off role