...the 2-2 to Woodsen and here it comes...and it is swung on and missed! And Tom Browning has pitched a perfect game! Twenty-seven outs in a row, and he is being mobbed by his teammates, just to the thirdbase side of the mound.
Sorry but ill have to disagree. I wouldnt call him some baseball expert.
However at the same time. Im not sure who you really call a baseball expert. If you gathered every head coach from the majors that coached for more than 15yrs. They all would make different calls, and have different opinions on players.
Why is Marty's opinion better than mine? Because he has watched more baseball?
Marty has watched more baseball than Joey Votto has. Who is a better expert on hitting?
Who I would call a baseball expert is a tough question. I think Joe Morgan would be a great guy to teach someone the mechanics of the game. How to hit. How to steal. How to field. I wouldn't want Joe Morgan managing a team or telling someone about the value of a player because he is clueless when it comes to things like that. He is an expert in one field and pretty darn poor at another.
I'll play this game. Reds have 30 (Votto 17, BP 13). Here are what some playoff teams are trotting out in their 3 and 4 holes this evening.
Atlanta Braves 29
Freddie Freeman 13
Brian McCann 16
Oakland Athletics 25
Jed Lowrie 8
Yoenis Cespedes 17
Tampa Bay Rays 29
Evan Longoria 21
Wil Myers 8
Boston Red Sox 29
Dustin Pedroia 8
David Ortiz 21
LA Dodgers 26
Adrian Gonzalez 15
Yasiel Puig 11
OC_Red (08-06-2013)
Still....7th in the NL in slugging percentage.
reds1869 (08-06-2013)
Joey now second in the NL in Ops (.951). However, he did fall to 8th in SLG (.512) behind David Wright's .512.
I'm not sure Votto's hitting, good or bad, really factored in to the recent STL series. However, against MIL, SD and a couple other series last month he did kind of blow it w/RISP in critical moments. Having said that, there are other guys on the team and the Reds probably could do a little better than 1 run in 40 innings or whatever it was.
"I had a cigar in my back pocket...I didn't wanna break it." - Bartholomew "Bump" Bailey
Baseball is a game if failure, methinks some posting here don't get that aspect of the game as astutely as they should
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