Bashbrothers

The manager and coaching staff is supposed to lead. 
 
You cannot grade the GM decisions ten games in. Period. 
 
Just like you can't call Trout or Hamilton a bust, ten games into the season. 

We only gave up 5 runs at home to one of the best offenses in the American League. 

Wait, you liked your own post?

I am sorry, but intentionally walking Crisp was really ****ing stupid.

Those are almost caught up to Wells' overall numbers. Impressive.

He had an OPS above 1.000 before tonight's game. Basically, you're an idiot.

I wish people would remember how early it is before they post. Like last year, they started the season 6-14 and that didn't keep them out of the playoffs.

Thx, but stfu.  

Looking at the stands, you'd think the game was in Oakland.

Where is Vernon Wells to hit a pointless home run when you need him?

"We'll settle for third."

John Jaso has a career .539 OPS against lefties.
There's a reason why Melvin brought in Jaso for their 5 hitter Norris(who is hitting .333 btw).
He hits fastballs, and he hits righties.
 
Melvin out managed MS so bad in the 7th inning, it was probably comical in his eyes.
First he called the straight steal, guessed right on which pitch to go on, gave Cespedes a 2-0 count, got the walk, then brought in the ideal lefty, and MS didn't know what was going on the whole time.

So the only way a person reserves the right to criticize someone for doing a poor job is to actually do that job themselves? That's a terrible argument. I guess we can't criticize Obama then.

No, he's the guy who got called out for whining about ST losses.
 
I like how he's taken on a new persona.

Clearly that Darvish guy doesn't know what he was talking about.

HEY GUYS! LET'S ALL GO STAND OVER THERE!

Yikes! Home opener vs A's Jarrod Parker. Hamilton's history vs Jarrod Parker 0-8 with 6 strikeouts.  

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In all fairness, the Astros have the best record in the league.

Man, it would be so awesome to see the Astros win tonight.

Stealing is only worth it if you can steal successfully 80 percent of the time.  Anything lower hurts your team.  

It's very disconcerting in an argument to post facts and evidence for a certain position to have someone post "LOL OK" as if that helps their side.  This is something that would be very easy to prove if you have facts for it.  Everything we see can be measured.  The fact that pitch location and pitch type have a standard deviation of 0 should be pretty telling.  These aren't hypothetical, this is what actually happened.  Pitchers literally pitched Cabera the same exact way despite having Prince Fielder.
 
Lifetime, if you think this position is true than prove it or at least try to refute the numbers. 

I don't know what research has been done on this( I suspect that there's more myth than truth to the idea), but it really wasn't especially accurate for Torii's huge year last year.
 
Fangraphs Pitch Type through Baseball Info Solutions:
61.4% Fastballs in 2012, 1% more than he saw in 2011.
4.4% Cutters in 2012, 1.3% less than he saw in 2011.
 
They also have him seeing more sliders than saw in any any except 2005, but still only 2.5% more than 2011. Not necessarily significant, but I found it interesting when I went to look up this fastball stuff.
 
Pitchf/x Pitch Type:
34% 4-Seam Fastballs in 2012, 4.3% less than 2011
14.7% 2-Seam Fastballs in 2012, 2.9% more than 2011
5.5% Cutters in 2012, down 0.5% from 2011
 
And Pitchf/x also has him seeing 2% more sliders last year for whatever it's worth(and I'm the first to admit, probably not much).
 
Certainly not the difference there that would make me think Howie is going to breakout because he'll get a bunch of fastballs.