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Pickoff Moves, Lunchtime Edition
Published 5/13/2008 by Rob (noreply@blogger.com) at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
Mike Napoli, Blake DeWitt Among Eric Neel's Unsung All-Stars Here: Mike Napoli, C, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim He splits time with Jeff Mathis, so he has only 66 at-bats in 18 games. But in those 66 at-bats he has 18 hits, and of those 18 hits, nine are for extra bases, and of those nine, eight are home runs. Blake DeWitt, 3B, Los Angeles Dodgers This was supposed to be Andy LaRoche's spot and Nomar Garciaparra's spot before that, but it's fallen to DeWitt because the other two have gotten hurt. And to his credit, DeWitt has ...

High contact or contact high? Where small samples linger
Published 5/22/2008 by Tommy at Breaking Balls
... nonsense (not to mention the Ludwick is our savior trope–don’t get me started). Nevertheless, we’re still left with some rather eyebrow-raising artifacts of the fact that teams have not yet played even 50 games this year. For example, the struggling: ...