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I’m sure you won’t blame me for wanting to talk about the baseball I saw this year that didn’t involve our beloved (and this year, mediocre) Braves. In my quest to eventually see all 30 MLB parks, I managed to hit three this year that were new to me: AT&T Park, ...
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I was thinking about using the cliché “roller-coaster season” line to start off this post, but that would mean there were a number of high and low points for Jeff Francoeur over the past seven months. After racking my brain for amusement park memories, it was the tower of terror that seemed ...
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Heck of a day for Josh Anderson yesterday. Is he in the running for the CF job? I still find it hard to think so — his minor league stats are pretty conclusive that he doesn’t have any power and doesn’t have much on-base ability, and despite his outburst yesterday his season ...
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The days when the Astrodome was about the worst pitcher’s park in the major leagues are long gone, but Minute Maid Park isn’t exactly as extreme a hitter’s park as you might think. This year, Houston has been the 14th-best hitter’s park in the majors, inflating runs by a ...
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Chipper Jones’s average sits at .365. He hasn’t started since last Friday, but he has pinch hit in 3 of the five games since then and is 2-2 with a walk and a 3-run homer. As usual, his body may not work, but his bat sure does.
To be precise — hat tip to Ububba of Braves ...
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Albert Pujols
Yeah, it’s our old fragile lefty against their young ace lefty again, for the second time in a week. It didn’t work out so well for us last time — to refresh your memory, we lost 4-3, but it was one of the best starts of Hampton’s season, as he went 7 innings, and though ...
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So we’ll get to see those wacky darned Phillies again. I think they’ll win the division. And I’m willing to believe the Mets will win the Wild Card, considering the free fall the Brewers have been in of late. So here’s a question: if the Phillies and Mets make it into ...
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Here’s a graph, game by game, of our win percentage this year, including our win over the Mets today.
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Seven games left. Chipper Jones is batting .362; Albert Pujols is batting .351. Today’s the rubber match against the Mets, followed by 3 against the Phillies and then 3 against the Astros. More interestingly, right now we’re 9-9, with a chance of our first month of .500 or better ...
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Are you the guy who can’t get ahead of a batter to save his life? Or are you the promising left-hander who rose through our minor league system and flashed promise this year?
I answered Jessica Bader’s questions one last time, for one last Mets series. Let’s see if we can ...
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Jo-Jo Reyes
In his last two starts, Mike Hampton has drawn the two best left-handers in the division and arguably the two best in the league, Johan Santana and now Cole Hamels. Hamels has not been well-served by his offense or his bullpen this year; he has lost 4 games and gotten 6 no-decisions in games in ...
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I’ve already copped to wanting my formerly dominant team to dominate again . If that makes me a jerk, so be it: but right now I’m a depressed and despondent jerk, because our season’s been over for months, except the games haven’t ended yet. I don’t know what to do ...
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The Phillies have absolutely moitilated us this year. They’re 10-2 in 12 games against us, outscoring us 75-54, batting .311/.378/.549 while holding us to .254/.355/.411. Tonight we’ll have a Jamie battle as we throw Parr to the wolves against Jamie Moyer, a guy who’s so old ...
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Today, Jorge Campillo will face Oliver Perez, in the Braves’ last game at Shea. Perez usually kills us, and Campillo’s been pitching poorly of late, so by the laws of anti-logic — which the Braves’ season has followed to a T — we should win today’s rubber ...
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Discussing Atlanta’s starting pitching seems to bring out the best in Braves fans (a bit of sarcasm in case some of you didn’t pick up on that). Most of the information from the last couple days may not be as disappointing as Braves fans have become used to this past season. ...
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So we’re off to beautiful Shea stadium — the fourth-oldest park in the majors! — to play the New York Mets. The Mets are in first place with a 3-game lead over the Philadelphia Phillies, which is wide enough that nothing can possibly go wrong. They did recently lose their ...
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