A.J. Finds One Pitch Too Many
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| Ghostrunner on First found this 4/27/2008 on bjays.wordpress.com [flag] |
A.J. Burnett was clearly a different pitcher last night, and if not for an absolute clanker of a play by Eckstein (you knew the whole “we paid 2 million dollars for the best defensive replacement in the league but aren’t going to play him because that might show up Eckstein” ridiculousness was going to come up eventually, but in such dramatic fashion??), you’d ...
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The Square Root of the Sum of the Squares of the Other Two Sides
Published 4/27/2008 by Lloyd the Barber at Ghostrunner on First
... , don't you? Executing with RISP and getting bunts down and not kicking it all over Missouri means wins! Wins are important! Jesse Litsch is 2-1! He wins! If the Jays keep getting people on base, they WILL score more runs. If AJ Burnett does his job and stops "playing jazz" in the bottom of the 7th inning, he will get wins. If Johnny Mac's role expands beyond pinch runner for the aged, the defence in late/close situations will improve. That is never bad if you want glorious wins. Every team is bound to run through a string of bad luck. I'd rather have it in April than August. ...
