All series talk goes in here. DO NOT GIVE PLAY-BY-PLAY! If you need PBP try Yahoo, ESPN, or Sportsline. 4-27 Chris Capuano, LHP (3-0, 3.68) vs. Roy Oswalt, RHP (3-1, 3.34) 7:05 on FSN 4-28 Dave Bush, RHP (2-1, 5.04) vs. Chris Sampson, RHP (2-1, 4.26) 6:05 on KNWS 4-29 Claudio Vargas, RHP (1-0, 4.76) vs. Woody Williams, RHP (0-3, 5.90) 1:05 on FSN
Lowest OPS months, career: April '07: .714 (BA .233) May '06: .771 (.241) May '05: .757 (.242; coming off knee surgery, missed April) Aug '05: .652 (.234) June 04: .776 (.222) April 03: .656 (.208)
LLL I gotta go with the funky downward spiral continuing. LOL Or, I just need to fire us up by stating the opposite of the desired result.
on a random note, who are our best pitchers in the minors these days? got to thinking about our pitching prospects with the chance that pence will be called up sooner rather than later.
instead of usually being bitter about Berkman's slump, i decided to actually use statistics for once to make some sense out of Berkman's God-awful April, which is actually not a slump at all. sources in the pentagon have his batting averages for the month of April, the last 4 seasons, as follows. .208, 2003 * .270, 2004 .229, 2005 * .338, 2006 .214, 2007 * (through 20 games) as you can see, Berkman has a ****ty batting average in Aprils of odd years, thus explaining 2007. consequently, we can conclude that this April will be one of those odd years in which Berkman has a terrible April. thank you thank you, no applause is needed . sources used: http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/gl.cgi?n1=berkmla01&t=b&year=2003 http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/gl.cgi?n1=berkmla01&t=b&year=2004 http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/gl.cgi?n1=berkmla01&t=b&year=2005 http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/gl.cgi?n1=berkmla01&t=b&year=2006 http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/gl.cgi?n1=berkmla01&t=b&year=2007 *statistics of odd years prior to 2003 were thrown out for this report
are any of them predicted to pan out in the majors, or what i'm asking is. do any of our current prospects have the potential to be future oswalts one day? granted, i know nieve and well, nieve is nieve lol. albers can be decent at times.
Of the more advanced guys who could help this year or next, only Juan Gutierrez Sergio Perez & Brad James are coming on strong at the High-A level.
I'd add Albers to that. He's a little rough around the edges given his lack of time in the upper minors, but he has an excellent fastball with good tailing movement to go along with it. His breaking pitches are plus also, and he seems to not leave as many pitches up in the zone as some of our other prospects have these last couple years (Astacio, Buchholz, Hirsh). He needs some seasoning, and anything can happen, but he might be my favorite of all the upper level pitching prospects.
