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Not putting the ball in play
Taking a look at what teams do when they don't put the ball in play showed me something fairly interesting. Not putting the ball in play ends up in 1 of 3 possibilities: Walk, Strike Out or HBP. As most of us know, good hitters tend to walk and strikeout a lot, but bad hitters tend to strikeout...
It Was Eleven Years Ago Today: Cubs vs. Astros, Wednesday 5/6, 7:05 CT
Normally, the 11th anniversary of anything isn't reason to give the occasion a mention. However, eleven years ago today, Kerry Wood struck out 20 Astros at Wrigley Field. I mention this not because of any sentimental attachment to Wood, but because that day was also a Wednesday, and the Cubs are...
Sunshine, Day Baseball Don't Help: Cubs Walk Ten, Give Up Ten To Arizona, Get Shut Out 10-0
Look at it this way: it's April 29, 20 games into the season, and the Cubs don't have to go back to Chase Field again this year. Well, unless it's the playoffs and in that case I think we'd all be happy to go back there and get some revenge for today's 10-0 shutout at the hands of the...
White Sox Walk All Over Kazmir, Rays
Twice Ozzie Guillen has penciled Brent Lillibridge atop the lineup against a lefty, and twice Lillibridge has drawn a 4-pitch leadoff walk. Amazingly, after posting a dismal 24-1 K/BB mark this spring and poor K/BB marks above A-ball, Lillibridge now has 6 walks against 4 strikeouts. Of course, he...
Quentin, Konerko, Dye Slug Sox Over Tigers
You can't call the White Sox 10-6 victory over the Tigers boring. There were milestone homers, two of them, back-to-back; an injury at the Sox shallowest position, and a once-every-thousand games pitching performance. To be fair, Gavin Floyd's woeful 7-walk performance isn't that rare. Major...
Jim Souhan is TRYING to get our blood pressure up
Jim Souhan, of the Star Tribune, wrote a column for the baseball preview section that appeared in today's paper. Titled "Short and sweet gives way to long and bor-r-r-ing," it decrys players who go to the plate looking to walk, rather than going up there to "do something spectacular." After the...
Walks: TFA!
Walks are great. I love walks because walks (a) avoid outs and (b) clog bases and, with all due respect to those who use it as a pejorative, clogging the bases is a good thing. Many of my favorite all-time ballplayers were proficient base-cloggers: Ted Williams, Rickey Henderson, John Olerud, Barry...
Eight Bad Pitches: Cubs 2, Astros 4
Len Kasper said it best, right after Hunter Pence hit the grand slam that held up for Houston's 4-2 win over the Cubs last night. It wasn't "one bad pitch", as is often said when an opposing player hits a key home run. In the case of last night's game, it was the eight pitches out of the strike...
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