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8/26/08 Brewers (Sheets) at Cardinals (Wellemeyer): 7:15 PM CDT

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dlk9s Carolina Mudcats

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Maybe this will quiet the Sheets isn't a big game pitcher for a while.

 

Hold your horses... Not if the bullpen blows this!

The Cubs are poised to win tonight. Zambrano showed he is just as much if not more of an ace than Sheets.
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rluzinski Carolina Mudcats

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More important to ensure he leaves with a shutout, beloved, and raise his confidence than to give a higher probability at winning the game????

 

Sheets was already at 100 pitches and throwing 92 MPH. He was probably wearing down, so I don't think it really lowered the chance of winning much if at all. Nothing wrong with handing the game over to a nice, fresh pen.

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Yeah I knew the stat guys would be all over me, thats why I said his numbers were good, just not the player I was hoping for and I would guess some would agree. At least he walks alot. I am disappointed and it is near september, that is all I am saying.
I'm not trying to harp on you here I really am not but what you are really seeing is a slow start that takes forever to fix. Fielder has an OPS of .917 since June 2nd and he has been pretty steady over that timeframe. He just had a pretty mediocre April/May and hasn't been able to make up for it quite yet. I agree he hasn't had the year I expected out of him but he has hardly been bad either.

I know he had a bad start but even the OPS since June is well below his numbers last year. Again he is good but not great, just disappointing for me after the 50 homer, 1.000+ OPS, runner up MVP season he had last year. Plus when he came up I thought he would be a much better contact hitter than he has become.

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But you can count on one hand how many hitters sit near a 1.000 OPS year in and year out. I cannot be disappointed in a player hitting at a .917 OPS clip for the majority of the season especially if he has a big finish that offsets that slow start and he ends up over .900 for the season.
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But you can count on one hand how many hitters sit near a 1.000 OPS year in and year out. I cannot be disappointed in a player hitting at a .917 OPS clip for the majority of the season especially if he has a big finish that offsets that slow start and he ends up over .900 for the season.

 

Isn't it great that we can argue about whether a .900 OPS for one of our players is a disappointment and how we're upset that he's not a 1.000 OPS player like he was last year? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

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