mvn.com - 5/28/2008
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When it comes to young, premium talent, the Los Angeles Dodgers possess an embarrassment of riches. From Russell Martin, James Loney and Matt Kemp in the linuep to Chad Billingsley and Jonathan Broxton on the pitching staff, and from Andy LaRoche in AAA all the way down to Bryan Morris in Low-A, the men in blue have a cornucopia of blue-chippers thanks to scouting guru Logan White.
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Reminiscing On Lord Clayton
Mike Scioscia's tragic illness —
... to a pitch thrown without spin. The X axis shows the amount of horizontal movement on Clayton’s pitches, while the Y axis shows the amount of vertical movement on the pitches. The chart is from the view of the catcher, so pitches with a negative horizontal (X axis) value are tailing in on a righthanded hitter. Pitches with a low vertical (Y axis) value are moving down in the strike zone; the lower the Y value, the more downward movement the pitch has.
Here’s some of the findings that he found, which is quite interesting.
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Bats get Gallagher a win —
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Sean Gallagher pitched seven strong innings and the Cubs' bats came through for him in the bottom of the seventh to give him the victory, 3-1 over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night.
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