Re: 7/20/12 - Reds vs Brewers
That's a nicely pitched game. Bailey, then Chapman. 13 games over .500 now.
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Re: 7/20/12 - Reds vs Brewers
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Sick.
I'd love to see him develop an 85 MPH change-up. Hitters would have no chance.
Sigh ... he's be starting ... like he should.
Re: 7/20/12 - Reds vs Brewers
Note to Miami Marlins: Come on, you batch of overpaid, pastel-wearing, ugly-fountain-having underachievers. Try harder.
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Kc61
Rest Chappy tomorrow.
+1, He needs the day off.
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Kc61
The bizzaro LF platoon continues.
Heisey a better fielder than Ludwick, plus moves the pitchers spot back.
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Since Chappy started throwing his breaking pitches more, and not go all out every pitch, he can pitch in relief more often. He looked pretty effortless out there.
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Note to Miami Marlins: Come on, you batch of overpaid, pastel-wearing, ugly-fountain-having underachievers. Try harder.
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Dan
How do you make the reigning MVP look THAT foolish?
Find his syringe? :p
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PuffyPig
Heisey a better fielder than Ludwick, plus moves the pitchers spot back.
Right. But it's still a bizarre platoon.
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Doc. Scott
Note to Miami Marlins: Come on, you batch of overpaid, pastel-wearing, ugly-fountain-having underachievers. Try harder.
If we play them later this year and they pound the bejeezus out of us...we're getting the torches and pitchforks and coming to your house for a firm talkin' to. :p
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Kc61
Right. But it's still a bizarre platoon.
It's not a platoon. Heisey came in for defensive purposes.
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It's not a platoon. Heisey came in for defensive purposes.
Ok, let me be more specific.
Heisey and Luwick share LF. I believe it is a bizarre arrangement. Both are right handed hitters. They seem to use Heisey against lefties, even though he has hit lefties generally poorly during his career. Some nights it is completely unclear why one player plays and the other sits.
It is not lefty/righty, which is the classic platoon.
And in this case, tonight, yes, Heisey came in for defensive purposes because he is excellent defensively in LF. Ludwick is not as good defensively. And it was late in a close game.
Overall, however, I think it is a very unusual and odd arrangement. Therefore, I referred to it as a strange platoon, or whatever.
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I don't think there's much difference defensively between Ludwick and Heisey in LF. Sure, Heisey is the better defensive OF overall, but that's because he can play CF. Ludwick is very fundamentally sound in LF.
The double switch was made last night to move the pitcher's spot in the batting order back. Any improvement defensively in LF, however slight, was incidental. Remember, Ludwick came in for Heisey as part of a double switch in Thursday's game.