[Spring Training] Game Threads

Really looking forward to listening at work tomorrow!!!

 

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

 

Well, that sucked.

Season's over.

 

It may only be Spring Training, but I'm glad to have baseball games back.

 

ahhh..the mantra of 2005. classic! i'd rep you if i could

 

Pence is still not a #3 hitter, and likely never will be.

 

His OBP is way too low, something like .320 for his career. Not only that he's prone to strikeouts and easy ground outs because he chases just about everything in the dirt. I was always told "if it breaks at your knees, don't swing at it", someone should tell Pence. His WAR is pretty darn low as well, Keppinger had a better WAR last year. In Pence's defense, if Pence can learn to lay off those low and outside breaking balls he could be a much, much better player, maybe even an all-star.

 

nevermind. I didn't realize MLB makes you pay for ST games.

FU** YOU, MLB!

 

Not a good start by Wandy. Got through the first ok, but is getting bombed in the 2nd. Hope this isn't a repeat of last season.

 

I'm not going to be too worried about Wandy during the spring, particularly this early. Wandy goes as far as his curveball will take him. I'm guessing his curve came out a little flat today. As the spring wears on, he'll get a little more feel for things.

 

caveat: we said that during the spring last year when wandy was getting hammered...but he ended up sucking during the first part of the season just as much as he had in the spring.

 

True. I guess I can't argue with that.

 

If you will look at Wandy's splits from last year , he was a slow starter but finished very strong.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=rodriwa01&year=&t=p#half::none



I just hope he starts clicking quicker than 30-40% into the season.

 

Tough start for Wandy but NICE start for the Wallrus, reallllyyyyyyy hoping he wins that 1st base job.

 

And it was a huge reason why they got off to such a slow start. If there is any hope in 2011, Wandy has to be a very big part of it.

 

Hopefully Wallace can keep up the good hitting. 3 for 3 is a nice start.

 

What happened to spikesnstars.com? It hasn't loaded for me in a while. Did the site shut down?

 

Loads fine for me.

 

Weird. Whenever I try to load the page it just sits there at "Waiting for a Reply" and never goes any further. Maybe its some weird cookies thing with my work machine.