capable_keL wrote:kinda impressed by the way tampa bay rolls with this swagger. i might have to put them ahead of my royals and tigers because they are what a real ball club looks like
capable_keL wrote:kinda impressed by the way tampa bay rolls with this swagger. i might have to put them ahead of my royals and tigers because they are what a real ball club looks like
i'm locked in on your club and realizing you've been around a better type of baseball than most and thus deserve room to enjoy the better team or the team ball purists would pick every time
Chipper Jones has faced a host of nasty pitchers over his 18-year career, from Curt Schilling to Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez to Justin Verlander, but he said the young Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg is the nastiest of them all.
גHeגs got the best repertoire of pitches that Iגve seen on any one single pitcher,ג Jones said Friday.
Strasburg takes on the Braves and Mike Minor on Saturday.
Jones called Strasburg a hybrid of Kerry Wood in his prime and Verlander, with a similar fastball and breaking ball. But the difference to Jones is how good Strasburgגs change-up is.
גVerlanderגs got a good change-up, but his is a circle change that just kind of fades away,ג Jones said. ג(Strasburgגs) is a 90-plus mph split that falls off the table. When youגre going up there getting geared up for 95, 96 mph and he throws you 90 and the bottom drops out of it, itגs a pretty lethal combination.ג
props to adam jones btw, the once uber-prospect turned formidable matt kemp-lite pro who was the major piece for the orioles to obtain in the bedard trade
oh yea, props b/c he just signed a 85 million dollar deal for the next 6 years...smart deal by the O's as every metric points towards jones being able to be kemp-lite for a while
Yeah, who the fuck peaks in their mid-30s without the benefit of steroids? Konerko's performance this season has been mind-boggling. The nerve of this guy to fuck with Josh Hamilton's triple crown.
He couldn't leg out a hit if his life depended on it, and meanwhile, he's gonna enter June with a .400 average.
Tweak Da Leak wrote:My nigga Poppabitch fucks with the swine?
Here's a statement just released by George Brett on getting passed today by Derek Jeter for No. 14 on the all-time hit list with 3,155 hits:
"Iגm always kind of bummed out when guys pass you because you had your own place in the records book for a while, and I had that one there for a while. But a guy like Derek comes around and passes you, really, I think it all depends on the type of person that did it. I have the utmost respect for him. Iגve only met him one time, very briefly, but for a guy to play as long as he has in New York, and Iגve never heard one bad thing said about the guy, heגs definitely a team player, heגs a clutch player. Heגs been the backbone of this organization for a long, long time and when a guy like that passes you, Iגd like to shake his hand and look him in the eye and say congratulations.ג
mike trout vs bryce harper will be a debate we discuss for the next twenty years. shit is crazy. they're both so fucking good at such a young age.
two things are clear as fuck: trout is a better stolen base threat and is a better fielder by far when using UZR (although trout's arm isn't as much of a threat as harper's and harper has held cats to sticking to their base and not attempting to tag up or holding cats to singles when they'd normally get doubles, etc. shit that uzr doesn't incorporate enough imo)
but then some other shit is clear too: harper has a better eye (not by a big margin). he's fucking 19 years old (a full year and two months younger than trout by the way) and has the highest bb% of all rookies while having one of the lower k% rates.
all the comparisons won't be fair until next year imo. trout had his major league debut and subsequent growing pains done last year and is now raking. harper had his debut and growing pains but showed much more results at a quicker/younger stage than trout, so i don't think it's fair to throw harper under the bus and just definitively say trout is better...it's even more absurd to me that buster olney has no problem quoting a scout who says trout will be the best player in the game by next year or listing stats that justify why olney thinks trout is one of the best already, all while ignoring bryce harper who is on a team that is winning more who has comparable/better offensive stats than trout in equal sample sizes (both with about 27 games and 120 PA...only don't forget trout had 40 games/135 PA under his belt from last year already)
leagues, but
