Surprising HOT starts and stumbling & bumbling

NL-good: Marlins are 10-1 WOW, 5-0 on the road! LAD & SD are 9-3 Solid & hmmm 4-0 1-Run games CHC & STL are 7-4 & 8-5, expected
NL stumbles: NAT's are 1-9, ouch! SF & Milw are 3-8; digging holes HOU & AZ are 4-7, troubling
AL fast starts: TOR & SEA, are 9-4 & 8-4, eye brow raising especially being 5-2 on the road
AL bumblings: , CLEV, LAA, TEX & TB are 4-8, 4-7 & 5-7---ooops They say to access the team after 20 games Cards and Cubs will know a lot by April 26th. The truth is never good to stumble out of the gate and you don't win the pennant in April.

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Nats may not win 30 games

that is not a hard statement to say there

#34: You'll be missed!

by Chanman25 on Apr 19, 2009 11:47 AM CDT reply actions

If the Marlins win Sunday

Six of their 11 wins would be over the Nationals.

The Padres, are exceptionally lucky. They caught the Dodgers before their bats got hot. They played the Giants who, apparently cannot hit or pitch. They helped the Mets open Citifield — does any team have a home field advantage in the first MONTH of a new park? And, the Phillies are apparently suffering a World Series hangover.

The Padres have 4 pitchers. Don’t expect this streak to continue. When you have no expectations, you can play carefree baseball.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Apr 19, 2009 11:50 AM CDT reply actions

they all count

as for the Marlins and Nat’s——this is really bucking the odds. Ironically on the Nat’s only Guzman is hitting by leading the league!

What you are saying is that LAD is actually better since they got stung by the Pads and then got hot while both are 9-3.

Piniella: "This is a tougher job than I thought it would be, I'm going to be honest with you."

by Ivy Walls on Apr 19, 2009 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions

The Padres lineup isn't that bad.

Gonzalez is a stud. Headley is a good young player. Kouzmanoff and Giles can hit some. Jody Gerut is a good platoon outfielder. They’ll score some runs, and in that division could win a few games. Are they this good? No. But they’re not as bad as everyone thinks.

The Nationals are a Double-A team masquerading as a major league club. Still, it will be hard for any major league team to win less than 50 games. That has been done only twice in the expansion era.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Apr 19, 2009 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions

and in October of 2009 there will be three teams

that team virtually has no pitching. Besides Zimmerman, Dukes, and Dunn, they have no hitting.

#34: You'll be missed!

by Chanman25 on Apr 19, 2009 12:47 PM CDT up reply actions

the Pads are winning for one reason only

Hank White

baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out

by Cubbie-Tim on Apr 20, 2009 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions

Testify!

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by daver on Apr 20, 2009 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions

Of course they count....

but still, right now playing the Nats is a gift from the NL schedule makers. Teams always go on hot streaks, that’s a given. Such streaks are also magnified at the beginning at the season.

And, the opposite is true. The Phils, Angels, and Tampa Bay are not as bad as their records appear to be. The Giants, if all four of their starters fail — may actually be terrible. Randy Johnson is pitching as if he’s 75-years old. The jury’s out on the Brewers. They may have lost too much pitching, but they cannot be counted out.

But if you think the Padres are going to challenge for the NL West…..you better take the points……

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Apr 19, 2009 12:22 PM CDT reply actions

If Texas can find pitching

They could easily take that division. It’s a toss-up right now.

"Check the magic of a winning season and there are always reasons beyond the talent." Ned Colleti

by wrigleyrocker12 on Apr 19, 2009 6:18 PM CDT reply actions

As envisioned, the Milwaukee Brewers are awful

I said they’d lose 90 games. Hard to win when you have literally no pitching to get excited about once you get past Yovani Gallardo and you are an absolute terrible defensive team.

The Brewers REALLY blew it when they didn’t move Prince Fielder for pitching, shift Ryan Braun to 1st base and move 2nd base butcher Rickie Weeks to the outfield.

by BLou on Apr 19, 2009 7:04 PM CDT reply actions