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Linebrink acquired for Inman/Garrison/Thatcher

Lorax1

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I've been gone in Colorado for the past week, and I haven't been able to see who we traded to get Linebrink.

 

When I saw the 3 minor league pitchers I had a feeling it would be Inman. Suck suck suck. My favorite minor league player gone.

 

What else is there to live for?

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logan82 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

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The Sexson trade got us some major league ready players that allowed us to keep our prospects in the minors one more year. Spivey was a place holder for Weeks, Counsell for JJ, and Overbay for Prince. Don't forget we also got Zack Jack and Gross in the Overbay trade. It wasn't a big fleecing, but bought us an extra year of our current core players.

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I blame Wang.

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Linebrink has looked nothing short of impressive thus far. His release is fluid & looks effortless, his stuff has been quite lively, and adding him to an already impressive back-of-pen has taken a strength (bullpen) & turned it into an even better strength. Kudos to Melvin & Co. on their scouting here. Whatever problems he's had this year look to be completely correctable for Maddux & Castro. I completely disagree that our bullpen is a "train wreck." Perhaps some recent struggles, but there are a lot of teams that'd die to have our bullpen.
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Well, I never added that conditional, but you did...so:

 

Braves, probably the Phils, Cleveland, the Tigers' pen hasn't exactly been great. There are a few, not to mention the other many teams that'd inevitably be IN a playoff race if they had a pullpen as strong as ours. It's very easy to rag on the pen when they hit a rough patch, but by & large, our BP has been very strong. To call it a train-wreck is just laughable, but it certainly was one today!

 

EDIT: good points, loopee, but I tried to look at more than just ERA, hence my different list

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On a side note, look at the K/9 list.

 

This thread is leading me to believe that our bullpen has been quite unlucky. We're top 5 in MLB in WHIP, K/9, and K/BB. However our ERA is middle of the pack. Perhaps one of the stat heads can back me up on this, but it looks to me that the bullpen has underperformed when compared with the performance we should be getting considering the secondary stats. Or am I missing something?

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Fair enough, I'm glad to see they're doing well in the overall scheme of things. That said, how much of those rankings are due to the great hot start of the pen?

 

It might be considerably more valuable to see how they've done since June or July.

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so struggling for a small to moderate size of the season gives you the liscence to dub them a "train wreck?" That's what I reacted to. It's simply not a fair characterization of a stellar group of pitchers.

 

EDIT: Though I do agree that they've been worse after a lights-out start...

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re: Linebrink, when a guy like Trevor Hoffman goes ballistic about losing him, there's a reason...and it's not just because they're "buddies". Sadly, I already trust him more than just about anyone not named Gallardo...
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PeaveyFury Biloxi Shuckers

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so struggling for a small to moderate size of the season gives you the liscence to dub them a "train wreck?"

Considering that I meant "train wreck right now", I think so.

 

Cordero is struggling, Wise is a mess, T-bow is incredibly hit or miss, Villy seems to have hit a wall. That leaves Parra who got rocked today, along with Spurling and Shouse in addition to the aforementioned Linebrink.

 

Yeah, I'd say that's not a good situation.

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Nowhere in there does it say "right now."

 

I thought that PF implied that by calling it a "train-wreck". I don't think many contenders would want Wise, Villy, etc. pitching for them tomorrow -- I think that was the point PF was trying to make, and it was a very valid one.

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Small sample so far I know but so far he is 7 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 8 K, 1 HR, 1.29 WHIP, .573 OPS against.

 

It also seems plausible that he saves a very overworked bullpen that only seems to have two reliable arms on it other than Linebrink. The deal of course comes down to Inman vs draft picks for losing Linebrink but I'm glad we made the move. I feel if we win the division there can be an argument made that this trade is why it happened.

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