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Analysis: Hamels is well rested, and has had tremendous success against the Dodgers. He threw a shutout against them at Dodger Stadium on June 4, went 2-0 with a 1.93 ERA in two starts against them in last year's NLCS to earn series Most Valuable Player honors and is 2-0 with a 1.50 ERA in four ...
Hamels, Myers tussle after Game 5 win
sports.yahoo.com — PHILADELPHIA Phillies pitchers Brett Myers (notes) and Cole Hamels (notes) had a short but tense confrontation in... the team’s clubhouse following Game 5 of the World Series, according to one witness, words that stemmed from Hamels’ recent statement ... (more) Hamels, Myers tussle after Game 5 win
Hamels, Myers tussle after Game 5 win
sports.yahoo.com — PHILADELPHIA Phillies pitchers Brett Myers (notes) and Cole Hamels (notes) had a short but tense confrontation in... the team’s clubhouse following Game 5 of the World Series, according to one witness, words that stemmed from Hamels’ recent statement ... (more) Hamels, Myers tussle after Game 5 win
Hamels 'can't wait for season to end'
Hamels 'can't wait for season to end'
nypost.com — PHILADELPHIA -- The fallout from Cole Hamels' horrific Game 3 start Saturday lingered into yesterday for the... Phillies. That fallout was so great, in fact, that it could alter Philadelphia manager Charlie Manuel's thoughts of keeping Hamels in his ... (more) Hamels 'can't wait for season to end'
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World Series Scouting Reports
crashburnalley.com — World Series Scouting Reports October 27th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Playoffs , Sabermetrics , Philadelphia Phillies , MLB [image] As promised yesterday, we’ll take a look at the World Series starters. Despite the Phillies naming Pedro Martinez the Game 2 starter , there is still a lot of uncertainty around both teams’ rotations: Regardless, we can still take a look at what these starters throw and how often they throw it. Introduced in the NLDS preview , I’ll be using scatter plots with the pitch frequency and the respective values (runs above average per 100 pitches of the type in question). These statistics can ...

Hitting Hamels’ changeup
The Yankee Universe — Cole Hamels’ best pitch this year is, once again, his changeup. The pitch, which generally clocks in around 78-81 mph, on average, was thrown just over 30% of the time in 2009. It serves as Hamels’ main strikeout offering and, according to pitch value data, was 11.7 runs above average, the second best changeup value in the NL (only Tim Lincecum’s changeup was better). He’ll throw the changeup to right-handed hitters—low and away—as well as left-handed hitters—low and away—and, when facing righties, Hamels is not afraid to come inside with the pitch to induce a weak groundout. Therefore, ...

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