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2011-04-22 Astros at Brewers - [Brewers win, 14-7; pre- and post-game audio at tail end of thread]

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Yo's problem is control. He can get away with it early in his outings with batters chasing balls out of the zone, like they did early in Washington and the Astros did tonight. They stop chasing once they see him a second and third time, and he's been struggling to hit the outside corners. Considering he tries to hit that spot early in the AB, he falls behind early and ends up having to throw fastballs in the zone, and that's when he gets burned.

 

People are too quick to play the "head case" card with pitchers.

"[baseball]'s a stupid game sometimes." -- Ryan Braun

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Have you seen his last 3 starts? How do you explain his last start in Washington? Perfect through 3, gives up a hit and then gets shelled from then on. I know he isn't going to doninate every night, but he has been kind of a head case this season IMO.

 

So tired of people blaming every poor thing on a player's mental condition. They do it with Gomez, Manny Parra, and others. Sometimes, athletes just don't athletically do what is expected of them. It doesnt have to be "his head isn't right" all the time. Golly Gee! Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to get that off my chest.

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Have you seen his last 3 starts? How do you explain his last start in Washington? Perfect through 3, gives up a hit and then gets shelled from then on. I know he isn't going to doninate every night, but he has been kind of a head case this season IMO.

sub-par performance != head case
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It's absolutely awful. If anything get a glove on it and prevent the run from scoring...but he couldn't even do that. People complain about him because of reasons like this! He just cost us a run on a ball that damn near every other SS makes without needing to dive
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It's absolutely awful. If anything get a glove on it and prevent the run from scoring...but he couldn't even do that. People complain about him because of reasons like this! He just cost us a run on a ball that damn near every other SS makes without needing to dive

Maybe we move for something at the deadline. Right now, he's our only option. Seemed to be the neccessary evil to acquire Greinke.

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I haven't really voiced my opinion on the Betancourt thing but I'm totally OK with him tagging along with Greinke but in no way does that mean Doug should have sat on his hands and not looked to upgrade the spot. It really pisses me off actually to watch that crap out there.
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