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    The Bullpen

    Generally pitchers who have good velocity on their fastball look better than "crafty" pitchers who need to hit their spots. It takes longer to get command in the sense of hitting spots than it does to get velocity, which makes up for the sin of not hitting your spots. So it's generally not...
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    Horribly Depressing Realization...

    That's because Tastycakes are the best! There is nothing that beats a peanut butter kandycake. Yummy.
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    D-Backs’ Clayton takes pride in playing defense

    Cheer up, Javy Vazquez had the 10th best strikeout to walk ratio in the AL last year. Of course Curt Schilling had the best.
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    MLB Steroid Melodrama

    Gee, you mean you don't believe in coincidence? However, there is a lot to be said in favor of lemminglike behavior when it comes to fads in fashion and sports, so who knows. Perhaps flexibility and speed have become fashionable and the baseball players learned that us chicks really prefer...
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    D-Backs’ Clayton takes pride in playing defense

    Javy Vazquez is a pretty good strike-out/fly ball pitcher as I recall. Brandon Webb has had the most extreme ground ball/fly ball ratio in the majors the last two years (extreme on the ground ball end obviously). He's got a full point lead on every other pitcher in the majors. He's 3.55 and...
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    BA: Top 100 Prospects

    Somebody posted the complete list on my Phillies site. 1. Joe Mauer, c, Twins: "We had some concern from the start that he was bigger than the normal catcher. But Joe Mauer is not normal, from his mind to his tools to his heart." -- Twins scouting director Mike Radcliff. 2. Felix...
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    BA: Top 100 Prospects

    22. Carlos Quentin, of, Diamondbacks: "He improved in every phase. He didn't need to improve in some." -- Diamondbacks assistant general manager Bob Miller. 40. Conor Jackson, of, Diamondbacks: "He doesn't swing at bad pitches and he doesn't miss good ones." -- Inland Empire manager Daren Brown.
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    Moorad Approved

    I wonder if the $168 million refers to total owed as in all contracts plus deferments or just deferred payments? I don't know how they can possibly owe $200 plus million in deferments. Their payroll for 2001,the first year they took deferments was around $100 mil. All of the starters...
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    Enigmatic Peña lands at camp

    I will be really curious to see the new and improved D-Backs. Some of the moves I like a lot, like getting Glaus and Vazquez. Others I'm not so sure about. It will be interesting to see how they unfold.
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    Mantei on the Big Unit

    CBF, btw I love Mozilla Firefox.
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    Webb’s rise tied to sinker

    I believe the key to Brandon's success is throwing his sinker for strikes. Any pitcher with a great fall out of the strike zone out pitch, like Beckett wit his curve, RJ with his slider, Curt with his splitter, also needs to be able to throw that same pitch for a strike. If you always...
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    Ortiz out to prove D-Backs spent well

    One wonders where they get this stuff. Russ Ortiz was 4th in the NL in pitches per inning last year. He was second in walks issued (to Brandon Webb). Neither of these statistics sound like someone who is able to make the pitch he wants when he needs it.
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    Kata willing to work anywhere

    The best teams understand that you need both quantity and quality. Braves are very good at understanding the importance of picking up prospects and foreign signings and even using low draft picks to pick up guys with signing problems and overpay them. That is particularly true of pitching...
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    Yankees clean boy image

    RJ looks much better scruffy and mean. Now he looks like an old homeless type man from this ESPN picture.
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    Some Not So Good News ~KingofCards~

    Hang in there KOC. Good time of the year is coming up, March madness, NFL draft and spring training.
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    Richie Sexson - Did we do a background check?

    Waste of law enforcement and moral outrage. It's not a crime to drink and then drive. It's a crime to drive while your BAC is greater than .08 or to be under the influence of alcohol to a point which renders you incapable of saving driving. Even the smallest amount of alcohol begins...
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    Richie Sexson - Did we do a background check?

    .08 is a stupid limit. It was forced on the states by the Congress as a requirement for getting federal transportation funds. Prior to that most states had .10 but had no choice. Most people process an 8 ounce drink of alcohol an hour. Is one drink the difference between .07 and .08? No. I...
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    Prospects/Farmhands '05

    It's Madam Zenny to you. :eek:
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    Eagle's 4th quarter clock management

    Jersey Girl, there are a lot of Cowboy and Giant fans around the Philly area. But they are all bandwagon jumper types. Why on earth would you become a Cardinals fan? They are without a doubt the most miserable franchise ever known to man. I'm not talking smack here, just Bidwill is such a...
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    Interest in Redding?

    I like hearing that from Melvin. The only caveat is I'd prefer "outs" to "out" singular. My pet peeve with managers is when they play reliever Russian Roulette. Brenly was particularly bad at doing this. I hate it when they go through 3 relievers an inning or use 1 pitcher for the 7th, 1 for...
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    Veterans to join young bullpen

    I like the signing of veteran middle relievers to minor league contracts. Relievers are mostly a crap shoot. There is a reason they are middle relievers. The best pitchers become starters or closers. Because they are often overworked when they are having good years, they are prone to injury...
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    Eagle's 4th quarter clock management

    I don't know about the bars part, but the dehydration was definitely real. A couple of Eagles linemen and Freddy Mitchell talked in some local shows that Donovan was having dry heaves in the huddle the whole time on the drive and that Freddy had to relay the plays to the team because Donovan...
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    Fossum traded for Cruz DONE DEAL

    Well, actually, go back and find my predictions last off-season where I said Reynolds and Alomar and Randy Choate were going to be horrible and the D-Backs would be a crummy team. But you are simply wrong. The contracts to Gonzo and RJ were handed out just prior to the 2003 season. They had...
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    Fossum traded for Cruz DONE DEAL

    No offense, but do you simply believe everything the organization tells you? Once they handed out RJ and Gonzo's contracts, it was obvious it would be difficult to keep Curt. But they had choices all along the way. They didn't just suddenly find themselves in that position. They gave the bad...
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    Your 2005 Arizona Diamondbacks

    ESPN "says" a lot of things. I don't know that Javy is hurt. But there are some obvious red flags. First is severe drop off in performance 2nd half of the season. Javy is a superb pitcher, I've always liked him and had him on my fantasy team the past 3 years. He's been around long enough that...

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