All series talk goes in here. DO NOT GIVE PLAY-BY-PLAY! If you need PBP try Yahoo, ESPN, or Sportsline. 8-3 Roy Oswalt, RHP (10-6, 3.63) vs. Dontrelle Willis, LHP (7-10, 4.95) 6:05 on FSN 8-4 Jason Jennings, RHP (2-7, 6.03) vs. Sergio Mitre, RHP (5-5, 3.55) 6:05 on FSN 8-5 Chris Sampson, RHP (7-8, 4.53) vs. Scott Olsen, LHP (8-9, 5.53) 12:05 on FSN
WLW Roy pitches deep and Sampson gets back on track Jennings is trash, I'm sure Purpura will sign him to a 4 year 40 million dollar deal that will prevent us from making moves as we will no longer have "payroll flexability"
The over/under for Jason Jennings's ERA after 2/3 of the first inning has been set at 8.33. Any takers?
I don't like facing two lefties in this series because that means Garner's probably is going to have Lamb and Scott on the bench. Hell, Garner would probably sit Ted Williams against left-handed pitchers. He really overvalues the lefty-righty matchups. Keep your good hitters in the lineup consistently Garner. It's not hard.
Let's say the unthinkable happens. We sweep and the Mets/Phillies sweep their respective weekend series. We'd be 7.5 games out. That would be nucking futs.
lol, he will play the lefty vs righty matchup all day long but he refuses to play the percentages in other area's deciding to go with his "gut feeling"
It just underscores how much the division was there for the taking this year. I try not to think about the fact that it didn't take even 90 games to win this division the past 2 years. EDIT: By "past 2 years" I mean this year and last.
that's probably the #1 biggest problem with him, but like texanskan said it seems like he's a gut manager in other areas.
Aug 1 Alyson Footer, of Houston.Astros.MLB.com, reports Houston Astros OF Hunter Pence (wrist) has been cleared to do light resistance exercises using five-pound weights.
Scratch that. Sampson was just put on the 15-day DL. http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bb/5026053.html
Uh oh, that sounds very similar to the problem Pettitte had a couple of years ago as well as Backe last season. Not good.
And it pretty much falls in line with a late-converted pitcher who is now in the midst of his first full season of pitching big-league ball... eventually, their arm says "hey... buddy.... throwing a ball like this isn't natural for a human, and you haven't been doing it all that long anyways... I'm broken."
In a way, that's not a bad thing, assuming Sampson can recover from rest. I think a lot of people were starting to wonder if his first 2.5 months were somewhat of a fluke... with this, perhaps his downturn in productivity can be traced back to injury and when healthy, hopefully he can regain that form.
