bats.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/23/2009
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Angels Manager Mike Scioscia will need to have a quick with Joe Saunders in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series.
mlb.mlb.com - 10/24/2009
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By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com 10/24/09 7:35 PM
ET Rain postponed Saturday's Game 6 of the American...
League Championship Series, and the Angels and Yankees hope for better conditions on Sunday in New York. Game 6 will be played at 8:20 p.m. ET on Sunday ...
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Game 6 of ALCS postponed until Sunday
majorleaguejerk.com - 10/23/2009
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Barring some kind of dramatic HR in a
clinching game or a fluketastic pitching performance like Jack...
Morris’, years from now when we look back on the 2009 MLB playoffs, the two things we’re going to remember most about them are the ...
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Quality Start: My Manager Is Dumber Than Yours
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 10/23/2009
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Mike Scioscia, all 200-and-whatever pounds of him, was
on the managerial tightrope, teetering in one direction, wobbling...
precariously off on another, but somehow, in one final, flailing lunge, barely making it to the other side. The Angels are still ...
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Scioscia on a tightrope
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NYT: Rosenheck: Scioscia Will Need a Quick Hook in Game 6
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
NYT: Rosenheck: Scioscia Will Need a Quick Hook in Game 6 Whoa! By the looks of this...Sgt. Saunders had a better chance of surviving a tour of the Sikorsky Museum. The Angels will counter with Joe Saunders, who made the 2008 All-Star Game and is second in the American League in wins to Roy Halladay over the past two seasons. Sounds like a good matchup, right? Not so much. Quantitatively savvy baseball fans are well aware that the win is a flawed statistic, but few hurlers demonstrate its weaknesses better than Saunders. In 2008, his ritzy 3.41 earned run average was built ...
Saunders the Wrong Man for the Job?
baseballmusings.com —
Dan Rosenheck offers a superb sabermetric analysis of why Joe Saunders shouldn’t get two starts in a post-season series.
Quantitatively savvy baseball fans are well aware that the win is a flawed statistic, but few hurlers demonstrate its weaknesses better than Saunders. In 2008, his ritzy 3.41 earned run average was built upon the shakiest of foundations: a .267 batting average allowed on balls in play, known as Babip, which is next to impossible for a nonknuckleball pitcher to maintain over a lengthy period of time.
Sure enough, in 2009, his ...
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Never on Injured Reserve —
... ) Sending Joe Saunders to the mound for game six vs. the Yanks is a bad idea. ( Bats ) If you want to be an NFL head coach all you need is the look. ( ...
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