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JeffH

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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #30 on: February 25, 2024, 07:32:59 pm »
tico, drugs are bad.  Just say no.
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DUSTY

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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #31 on: February 25, 2024, 07:41:05 pm »
Its funny how certain players around here will get 1000 chances no matter how bad they suck and some will get written off instantly no matter how good they are.

It looks like Matt Mervis is another one who's not gonna get many chances around these parts.
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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #32 on: February 25, 2024, 07:50:51 pm »
but have you tried ‘em, jeff?

the Morel GG hype train feels goooood
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DUSTY

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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #33 on: February 25, 2024, 07:57:21 pm »
I bet if we just signed a 25 year old left handed Japanese 1st baseman named Wang Suk Tanahashi who just hit .282 with 22 HRs and 78 RBIs with a .932 OPS in Japan some here would be ready to build a statue of him.
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JeffH

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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #34 on: February 25, 2024, 08:09:34 pm »
Dusty, try not to be a ****.
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DUSTY

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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #35 on: February 25, 2024, 08:19:17 pm »
Im not trying to be.

Im expressing an honest opinion.
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Deeg

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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #36 on: February 25, 2024, 09:44:35 pm »
Quote from: JeffH on February 25, 2024, 08:09:34 pm
Dusty, try not to be a ****.

Yeah, good luck with that.
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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #37 on: February 26, 2024, 07:01:22 am »
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Arizona Phil 02/25/2024 - 02:22 pm (view)

Here are the pitcher reports from Sunday's Padres - Cubs game at Sloan Park if anyone is interested:

JAVIER ASSAD:
FB: 91-94
CT: 87-90
SL: 79-81
COMMENT: Allowed three runs (two ER), surrendered three hits (two doubles and a single), and walked two in 1.1 IP (39 pitches - 24 strikes)... recorded no strikeouts... four swing & miss (two on FB and two on CT)... too much hard contact... really labored (slogged) in his second inning of work especially and was relieved after a one-out two-run bases-loaded single...

BLAKE WHITNEY:
FB: 91-93
SL: 83-85
COMMENT: Relieved Assad with one out in top of the second and runners on 1st & 2nd and retired both of the batters he faced (L-7 and K-looking) on eight pitches... two swing & miss (both on SL)... has a mediocre FB so he relies heavily on the SL... 
 
DANIEL PALENCIA:
FB: 95-97 - T-99
CH: 89
COMMENT: 1-2-3 nine-pitch inning (L-5, 4-3, 4-1) although he was behind on the count against every hitter he faced and threw only four strikes... threw eight FB (no swing & miss)... was helped by a spectacular diving catch by Christopher Morel at 3rd base on a frozen rope headed toward LF to retire the inning's lead-off hitter... 

EDWIN ESCOBAR:
FB: 93-94
SL: 83-86
CH: 81
COMMENT: Surrendered a screaming line-drive HR pulled over LF fence to lead-off batter (RH-hitting Jose Azocar) on his third pitch of the inning (94 MPH FB), then retired the next two hitters (a 5-3 GO and a seven-pitch K-swinging on SL), then walked two and was relieved after throwing 24 pitches (only 11 strikes - two swing & miss)... FB has decent velo but it is very straight & hittable... the two batters that he walked were both LH-hitters... he obviously struggles to throw strikes and so he would probably have difficulty pitching out of an MLB pen...   

JOSE ROMERO:
FB: 93-94
CH: 81
COMMENT: Came into game with two outs and runners on 1st and 2nd and immediately threw a WP, and then retired the one batter he faced on a 6-3 GO on his fifth pitch after starting the AB by throwing three consecutive balls... no swing & miss...

CAM SANDERS:
FB: 97-98
SL/CT: 88
CH: 83
CV: 80
COMMENT: Mixed high-octane FB with three different secondaries... worked fast and retired the side 1-2-3 on nine pitches (K-swinging, 6-3, K-looking)... threw eight strikes and only one ball... If he can throw strikes while maintaining velo like he did today he could be a high-leverage MLB RP...

CHRIS CLARKE:
FB: 91-93
SL: 82-84
CH: 81
COMMENT: Nibbled his way through the inning... needed 27 pitches (18 strikes) to retire the side... five foul balls and only one swing & miss... allowed two runs (both unearned thanks to a Moises Ballesteros boot at 1st base to start the inning) on three hits (all singles)... no walks & no strikeouts... he is a "pitch-to-contact" type and he fits the profile of a pitcher with the ceiling of a AAA 5th starter... can't see him being of any use working out of the pen...

FRANKIE SCALZO JR:
FB: 95-96
SL/CT: 89
CH: 83
CV: 78-81
COMMENT: Threw a shutout inning although he did allow a hard-hit two-out double... needed 21 pitches (13 strikes - only one swing & miss and six foul balls) to retire the side... has the pitch repertoire of a multi-inning "bulk" guy...

RILEY MARTIN:
FB: 93-94
SL: 81-84
COMMENT: Threw a shutout inning (13 pitches - only seven strikes - no swing & miss).. allowed a hard-hit two-out double... alternated FB/SL... 

CAYNE UECKERT:
FB: 94-97
SL: 83-85
COMMENT: Worked one inning and allowed a run on back-to-back two-out doubles (one smoked into the CF-RF gap and the other looped into short RF)... threw 12 pitches (11 strikes - two swing & miss)...
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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #38 on: February 27, 2024, 06:02:24 pm »
Shaw got a couple innings at 3B, I see.  Doesn't look like the ball found him.
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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #39 on: February 27, 2024, 06:05:42 pm »
He caught one soft line drive to his left, if I remember right.  Don't remember any ground balls.
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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #40 on: February 28, 2024, 04:22:35 pm »
Watched two half innings this afternoon, lefties Little and Wieck.  Cool for Wieck to be back pitching.  Walked first guy, got the next three, still has that huge curveball.  At the human-interest level, it would be so fun if Wieck bounced back and ended up being useful, after his heart stuff (??) and his surgery. 

Little had a pitch or two that went way wild, but otherwise was in or around the zone.  I'm really optimistic that he's going to be really good, sooner or later. 
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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #41 on: February 28, 2024, 05:18:20 pm »
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DUSTY

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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #42 on: February 28, 2024, 05:48:46 pm »
Canario could change the gameplan a tad this year if he plays to his potential.
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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #43 on: February 28, 2024, 07:38:45 pm »
Thanks for posting that clip.  Yeah, nice arm! 

I've tried to watch several of his AB.  I haven't seen him drive anything, so haven't seen the power.  (In minors, the only swings I ever saw were the HR clips.).

But he's looked very disciplined, and like he's got a good sense of the strike zone?  Doesn't seem like nearly the sometimes wild pitch-chaser that PCA is, or that I recall from Baez and Corey Patterson days.  Not sure he'll be great at hitting the strikes, but he's going to take some walks.   
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Re: Today’s Game - 2024
« Reply #44 on: February 28, 2024, 07:48:35 pm »
There was another clip of Busch scoring on Canario's hit.  I was surprised.  Busch is no gazelle, but he's not a draft horse either.
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