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Catching up on Al after a week long vacation.

 

(8/16/2013 07:50:00 PM) - Al

Casuals are wrong on Francisco, and quite likely wrong on Scooter also.

Two things casuals just don't "get"...how valuable power is, and how poor most 2B hit.

 

What are they wrong about with regard to Francisco?  Who cares, it gives Al free license to use the word casuals and to make stuff up that us "casuals" don't get things.  Meanwhile, I'll anxiously await Al's next defense of Yuni.

 


(8/14/2013 10:56:00 PM) - Al


The amount of casual fans who expect the bullpen to never give up a run is pretty close to 100%. 

 

0% is pretty close to 100% I guess.


 

(8/14/2013 08:23:00 PM) - Al

That sound you hear is the fan base falling in love with Scooter.

All he does is hit, but he reminds me a lot of my softball playing days, making a pump fake to get an out; even the way he tags the runner on an SB attempt, catches it and slaps the glove down on the bag, almost as if framing the pitch like Lucroy does so well. It gives the illusion the ball was there a half second before it was.

I was once told I made the best target ever for a pitcher to throw to 2B, and that my throws to 2B and 1B were nearly perfect...a 1B told me once he could just go to 1B, turn, and shut his eyes...that throw was always going to be chest high, right to the glove, every time. Basically, when you have to give 100% all the time just to be adequate, you learn to not throw the ball in the dirt. Juan Francisco can get away with that because he blasts HR's, but I couldn't.

This is why the braintrust has said numerous times he was an untouchable, and why the baseball people love him. He does the little things well. As I point out all the time, the big things are far more important, but little things are a bonus, and they do add up.

 

I'm glad, as I only can imagine "Middle Infielder" when I see this picture.


 

(8/15/2013 08:08:00 PM) - Al

Bianchi with a .203/.212 career line versus LHP. Only 70 PA's, so it might be a bit of a fluke, but his minor league numbers are awful as well. If he's going to possibly platoon with Scooter and back up SS, he needs to at least not be awful versus lefties.

 

Bianchi going .203/.212 in 70 ABs vs LHP is "awful"

 

But, Betancourt going .208/.232 in 327 ABs is "effective"

 

To put that abject stupidity in terms Al likes "we're in the best of hands"

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