sabretooth

Wow

Forget it hes rolling

Yeah

I hate this park

Wow! What a sequence. I love this team

I always took the poodle lid part seriously

Bert, you are definitely a guy I'd like to get to know better.....but probably from a safe distance

Actual closing credit song lyrics (saw it on the Internet, it must be true!): Mad tooth bar chin-up, box zing outta her hair now Still do the modern day whack-a-mole ditto-o-o What's that? Good bartender, i'da hat-beer 'n' head out I said I wouldn't do it if a poodle had a lid on MEEEEOOOOOWWW

Ooooohhh yeah....you can feel it now....the buzz is gonna getcha!

If you had told me before the year that they would be hovering around 500 at this point, I would have assumed that: - Miggy was having a good season (wrong) - Zimm was healthy and contributing (wrong) - VMart was providing something of value (wrong) - Mahtook was doing well (wrong) - Machado was holding down 2B at least decently (wrong) - Fulmer was healthy and productive (wrong) The fact that none of the above players have provided plus value and they're performing decently is pretty amazing to me. What they have received from Martin, Hicks, Goodrum, Hardy, Coleman and Fiers has been just what the doctor ordered. Not great, but good enough.

Hard to say....the opp is bad today of course, but the results were pretty good in terms of keeping guys off base and avoiding EBH. Zimm's LOB% is incredibly low at 61% this year, especially low considering that he's been striking out 9/9 so far. The norm is more in the 70% range. Normalize that and he'd have a decent ERA in the low-mid 4's instead of hovering around 5.

Nice

Sorry, I meant so far this year, and the A- ball game I watched last week....and I saw the future too! 3 singles, 1 double, 0 BB, 4 Ks. Pretty good stuff today from Zimm.

Zimms stuff and control seems pretty decent so far....with swinging strikes are up but not enough to sustain a 9k/9 average. If he could sharpen the slider and get the swinging strikes up from 9.7 to 10.5, he could sustain a 7.5 - 8.0 k/9 ratio and I think keep his r/9 in the low/mid 4 range. Not exciting but potentially effective.

Given the level of hitting ability on this team, I'm thrilled with 9th or 10th in anything.