Stuff
Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 8:15 am
It's funny how baseball works sometimes. In seeing that Luke Hochevar got a Save last night and in looking at his stats in coming off the bullpen bench to throw, he may have found his niche.
So Hochevar has turned into last year's Wade Davis. Unfortunately, this year's Wade Davis has turned into last year's Luke Hochevar.
The Mets have 14 wins. Eight of them have come from two pitchers.
Matt Harvey and....Bobby Parnell.
Mets starters, sans Harvey, are 4-18.
If it rained four of five days every week, the Mets would be contenders.
Last night, the Cubs scored nine runs. They sport a 5-2 record over their last seven games while scoring 36 runs.
Pretty good for a team that looks ticketed for the cellar.
Even with all these runs scored lately, the Cubs do not have something that every other club in baseball has done offensively.
It is Mid-May and the Cubs still not have had a grand Slam or even a three run homer to date.
Dallas Keuchel pitched for the Astros the other day.
It got me wondering something.
And no, he is not from Dallas. Not even from Texas.
In fact, every MLB player named Dallas, including Dallas Green, are from other states, not Texas.
Huston Street, however, is from Austin, Texas.
For those reading this in Alaska or Montana, you're kid can blaze a trail. There are no current MLB'ers from Alaska or Montana.
All this talk of Clay Buchholz and sunscreen will blow over when Buchholz comes back to earth statistically.
It made me think of other pitchers and objects thought of, when thinking of them.
Nolan Ryan and pickle juice.
Joe Niekro and an emery board.
Randy Johnson and a pigeon.
Gaylord Perry and saliva.
Al Hrabosky and a Fu
Rollie Fingers and a moustache.
AJ Pollack has five stolen bases
BJ Upton has three stolen bases
CJ Wilson has no stolen bases
DJ Dozier had four stolen bases in a one year baseball career at the MLB level
EJ Holub was a tough sombitch. You'll have to trust me.
RA Dickey is looking for a J
MJ had a great J
KJ has great dogs
OJ is a dog
JJ Hardy knows TJ Hooker....
JA Happ could probably use a hooker
And Jay Hook pitched for the Mets.
A worse Mets team than the one currently.
Yes, that is possible.
And after this segment, I need to go smoke myself a j....
Yu Darvish has 80 K's in eight games.
Besides making it easy to figure out how many strike outs Darvish gets per game so far, Darvish has done something else.
He is the first pitcher in over 10 years to have averaged 10 k's in his first eight starts.
The last pitcher to do it was Curt Schilling in 2002.
Ask anybody, and they'll give you a different answer in to how Mike Trout is doing this year.
One thing is for sure....He should be hitting ninth.
Why?
Trout is 7 fer 42 when batting in the first or second innings this year.
From the third to ninth inning this year, Trout is hitting .325
Phillip Humber and Joe Blanton....
Just the mere mention of their names makes fantasy players cringe.
Both are kryptonite to any teams ERA or WHIP.
And rightfully so, Humber with eight losses and Blanton with seven losses lead the Majors
Here is a list of pitchers that only Humber and Blanton top in losses....
Strasburg
Medlen
Samardzjia
Milone
Beckett
Dickey
Hamels
Say what you want about Humber and Blanton, but like Garth Brooks, they've got friends in low places!
Thank you, thank you, I'm here every night.....
So Hochevar has turned into last year's Wade Davis. Unfortunately, this year's Wade Davis has turned into last year's Luke Hochevar.
The Mets have 14 wins. Eight of them have come from two pitchers.
Matt Harvey and....Bobby Parnell.
Mets starters, sans Harvey, are 4-18.
If it rained four of five days every week, the Mets would be contenders.
Last night, the Cubs scored nine runs. They sport a 5-2 record over their last seven games while scoring 36 runs.
Pretty good for a team that looks ticketed for the cellar.
Even with all these runs scored lately, the Cubs do not have something that every other club in baseball has done offensively.
It is Mid-May and the Cubs still not have had a grand Slam or even a three run homer to date.
Dallas Keuchel pitched for the Astros the other day.
It got me wondering something.
And no, he is not from Dallas. Not even from Texas.
In fact, every MLB player named Dallas, including Dallas Green, are from other states, not Texas.
Huston Street, however, is from Austin, Texas.
For those reading this in Alaska or Montana, you're kid can blaze a trail. There are no current MLB'ers from Alaska or Montana.
All this talk of Clay Buchholz and sunscreen will blow over when Buchholz comes back to earth statistically.
It made me think of other pitchers and objects thought of, when thinking of them.
Nolan Ryan and pickle juice.
Joe Niekro and an emery board.
Randy Johnson and a pigeon.
Gaylord Perry and saliva.
Al Hrabosky and a Fu
Rollie Fingers and a moustache.
AJ Pollack has five stolen bases
BJ Upton has three stolen bases
CJ Wilson has no stolen bases
DJ Dozier had four stolen bases in a one year baseball career at the MLB level
EJ Holub was a tough sombitch. You'll have to trust me.
RA Dickey is looking for a J
MJ had a great J
KJ has great dogs
OJ is a dog
JJ Hardy knows TJ Hooker....
JA Happ could probably use a hooker
And Jay Hook pitched for the Mets.
A worse Mets team than the one currently.
Yes, that is possible.
And after this segment, I need to go smoke myself a j....
Yu Darvish has 80 K's in eight games.
Besides making it easy to figure out how many strike outs Darvish gets per game so far, Darvish has done something else.
He is the first pitcher in over 10 years to have averaged 10 k's in his first eight starts.
The last pitcher to do it was Curt Schilling in 2002.
Ask anybody, and they'll give you a different answer in to how Mike Trout is doing this year.
One thing is for sure....He should be hitting ninth.
Why?
Trout is 7 fer 42 when batting in the first or second innings this year.
From the third to ninth inning this year, Trout is hitting .325
Phillip Humber and Joe Blanton....
Just the mere mention of their names makes fantasy players cringe.
Both are kryptonite to any teams ERA or WHIP.
And rightfully so, Humber with eight losses and Blanton with seven losses lead the Majors
Here is a list of pitchers that only Humber and Blanton top in losses....
Strasburg
Medlen
Samardzjia
Milone
Beckett
Dickey
Hamels
Say what you want about Humber and Blanton, but like Garth Brooks, they've got friends in low places!
Thank you, thank you, I'm here every night.....