jason isringhausen Stories - Viva El Birdos
bearing the cost
i’m getting really tired of writing about injuries. under other circumstances i might get out the ol' calculator and try to estimate, down to the run, the cost of albert’s absence; that’s the exercise i ran through back in 2006 when he hit the dl. but i’m not gonna bother...
this that and the other
lot to talk about in that game, and wouldn’t you know --- i’m in a big hurry, heading out very early this morning on a two-day trip. (in fact, i’m already well down the road as you read this). so let me just round up a few tidbits and chew ‘em over very...
Izzy or isn't he? (plus Game 39 Open Thread)
Loop Soup 5-1, 3.95 1-2, 5.22 In considering the Izzy situation, I’m less ready than others to write his obit just yet. He’s had some bad outings, to be sure, but we forget that he was pretty good as the year began. He didn’t just lose it between...
closer calls
heads up from will carroll: he’ll have an interview today with cards’ assistant gm john abbamondi on Baseball Prospecus radio. you can download the show here. last night’s game . . . . . where to start? they squandered too many scoring chances; that pattern continues. for the...
Game 25 Open Thread- The Hangover
Roy Oswalt Adam Wainwright 2-3, 6.00 2-1, 2.75 Okay, everybody. Gather round, gather round, now. Don't be...
making it last
let’s start with ankiel’s 17-pitch at-bat. it was nearly as long as the brewers’ entire 9th-inning rally (19 pitches); that’s what type of an at-bat it was. the pitch-per-AB data at Baseball-Reference’s playfinder index stretch back 20 years, to 1988. in that entire...
first time
the cards are in first place by themselves for the first time since the final day of 2006. it’s only april 10 so it doesn’t mean much, but after going first-place-less for all of last season i thought this occasion worth noting. also worth noting is how easily the cardinals could be...
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