May 21, 2008 Milwaukee Brewers at Pittsburgh Pirates Play by Play and Box Score - Baseball

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Thursday's Frosty Mug
Published 5/22/2008 by KLSnow at Brew Crew Ball: Front Page Posts
... So, the Brewers are 1-0 now in the Gagne shutdown era, just saying... Win Expectancy Graph BR Box Score BDD Recaps Defensive Indifference thinks the decision to leave Ben Sheets in to throw 120+ pitches and finish the game last night was the wrong call. I'm not sure where I stand on it. I guess we'll see the results in 5 days. Brewers Bar has raised a straw man and beaten the crap out of it, saying that "many people" feel race was a factor in the Brewers decision to sign Ryan Braun to a long term contract ...

What's up with Ian Snell?
Published 5/23/2008 by Pat (noreply@blogger.com) at Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke?
... uses either the same PitchFX system or something similar, because most of the stats he gives are the same or similar to PitchFX. My initial suspicion, shared by several of you, is that Snell hasn't been throwing as hard this year as in the past. Last year, according to the James, Snell was 6th in the NL with a 92.4 mph heater. Using PitchFX, here's his average fastball speed from each of his starts, in reverse order, with a link to the boxscore from that night: May 21st- 92.02 May 15th- 90.11 May 9th- 91.88 May 4th- ...