Strasburg PlayAlong Thread

randallscott35 · #1 06-09-2010, 12:47 PM

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John Lannan
Kyle Kendrick
Brad lidge
Oliver perez
RA Dickey

Hey be nice. I'm going to Kendrick's wedding.

Nascar1966 · #2 06-09-2010, 01:02 PM

Strasburg had a great night yesterday. Look at who the opposing team was. His next scheduled start is supposed to be against Cleveland. Another power house team. Lets see what kind of stuff he has when he pitches against the Dodgers or Cardinals.

randallscott35 · #3 06-09-2010, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Nascar1966

Strasburg had a great night yesterday. Look at who the opposing team was. His next scheduled start is supposed to be against Cleveland. Another power house team. Lets see what kind of stuff he has when he pitches against the Dodgers or Cardinals.

Yes he will have ups and downs but the major leagues is the major leagues. 14ks and no walks is Real.

randallscott35 · #4 06-09-2010, 01:20 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...asburg_numbers

Nascar1966 · #5 06-09-2010, 10:17 PM

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Yes he will have ups and downs but the major leagues is the major leagues. 14ks and no walks is Real.

My thinking is by having him make his first major league starts against the Pirates and Indians are to get his confidence built up. If this is the case then kudos to the Nationals for stratigically scheduled the starts like that.

horseofcourse · #6 06-11-2010, 02:23 PM

How good is Strasbug?? Good enough to put the Cleveland Indians on national televsion on TBS Sunday afternoon! That is really, really good.

Cannon Shell · #7 06-09-2010, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Nascar1966

Strasburg had a great night yesterday. Look at who the opposing team was. His next scheduled start is supposed to be against Cleveland. Another power house team. Lets see what kind of stuff he has when he pitches against the Dodgers or Cardinals.

Did I miss all the other pitchers that are striking out 14 guys in 7 innings and no walks with less than 100 pitches against those teams?

Did I miss all the other pitchers that throw 100 with a 90mph change and 80 mph curve and great command?

Has being in Chicago and being exposed to the terrible baseball here somehow caused me to miss all these other guys?

Cannon Shell · #8 06-09-2010, 01:21 PM

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Hey be nice. I'm going to Kendrick's wedding.

Hope she is more effective against lefties...he is bp against them.

randallscott35 · #9 06-09-2010, 01:23 PM

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Hope she is more effective against lefties...he is bp against them.

She's in my wedding as well, haha....He's young, he'll get better.

Cannon Shell · #10 06-09-2010, 01:36 PM

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She's in my wedding as well, haha....He's young, he'll get better.

No actually he probably wont. I believe that he has gotten worse. He wasn't bad as a rookie but the last three years have been kinda ugly. Now I'd trade places with him in a second as my fastball maxes out around 60 but he simply doesnt have enough stuff to last too long past the period where he doesn't make much money. I don't wish any bad on him but when you give up too many hits, don't strike out anyone and turn the avg NL hitter who bats left handed into an all star on a regular basis...

randallscott35 · #11 06-09-2010, 01:37 PM

I'll give him this. He's nice and unassuming which many pro athletes can't say. If baseball doesn't work out, I'm sure he'll land on his feet.

Cannon Shell · #12 06-09-2010, 01:46 PM

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I'll give him this. He's nice and unassuming which many pro athletes can't say. If baseball doesn't work out, I'm sure he'll land on his feet.

Thats cool. He can probably hang around as a situational arm as long as he is willing to play reasonably cheap (by baseball standards)

randallscott35 · #13 06-09-2010, 01:48 PM

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Thats cool. He can probably hang around as a situational arm as long as he is willing to play reasonably cheap (by baseball standards)

Doesn't hurt when a WS share a few years back was 350k. Whoa

Antitrust32 · #14 06-09-2010, 03:04 PM

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No actually he probably wont. I believe that he has gotten worse. He wasn't bad as a rookie but the last three years have been kinda ugly. Now I'd trade places with him in a second as my fastball maxes out around 60 but he simply doesnt have enough stuff to last too long past the period where he doesn't make much money. I don't wish any bad on him but when you give up too many hits, don't strike out anyone and turn the avg NL hitter who bats left handed into an all star on a regular basis...

he's been very effective in about 70% of his starts this year. I've been plenty happy with him filling in for Happ and Blanton while they have been hurt. He'll be effective in long relief also, when Happ gets back (if he ever does). He's no Halladay of course.. tho he tries to be by basically following Halladay's foot steps day in and day out (ever since Halladay signed). It cant hurt being Halladay's shadow and pick up some of his knowledge, even if Kendrick will never have nearly as good of command.

Cannon Shell · #15 06-09-2010, 03:34 PM

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he's been very effective in about 70% of his starts this year. I've been plenty happy with him filling in for Happ and Blanton while they have been hurt. He'll be effective in long relief also, when Happ gets back (if he ever does). He's no Halladay of course.. tho he tries to be by basically following Halladay's foot steps day in and day out (ever since Halladay signed). It cant hurt being Halladay's shadow and pick up some of his knowledge, even if Kendrick will never have nearly as good of command.

Ah actually he hasn't. He has pitched sort of effectively in 5 of 12 games. That would be 42%. He will be fine in long relief because if your pitcher gets pulled early you are probably losing anyway. kendrick just doesn't have major league starters stuff and is abysmal against lefties. They are hitting .316/.385/.526 against him. Chase Utley is hitting .286/.380/.520 for his career. So basically every left handed hitter is turned into a more productive hitter than CHASE UTLEY when facing Kendrick!!!

That is not good...

Antitrust32 · #16 06-09-2010, 03:43 PM

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Ah actually he hasn't. He has pitched sort of effectively in 5 of 12 games. That would be 42%. He will be fine in long relief because if your pitcher gets pulled early you are probably losing anyway. kendrick just doesn't have major league starters stuff and is abysmal against lefties. They are hitting .316/.385/.526 against him. Chase Utley is hitting .286/.380/.520 for his career. So basically every left handed hitter is turned into a more productive hitter than CHASE UTLEY when facing Kendrick!!!

That is not good...

effective, IMO, for his position as a fill in for an injured starter, or 6th man, is around a 4.5 ERA. He's done fine as a fill in guy.. give or take a couple starts when he had a 17 + ERA