Padilla vs. Light Rail
So far this season, Baker has gotten 84% of his strikeouts as strikeouts swinging. That caught me by surprise. Santana, who got a ton of swinging strikeouts when his change-up dropped off the table, has 82% of his career strikeouts as strikeouts swinging. Average is 74% of strikeouts as [...]
Matt Harrison vs. Livan
If Livan was any other pitcher on the staff, I'd point to his 5.44 ERA, 4.62 xFIP, and .346 BABIP and I would conclude that he's been some combination of unlucky on balls in play and poor defensive support. So that's exactly what I'm going to tell you--Livan's been some combination [...]
Millwood vs. Perkins
We now enter the portion of the season where it begins to become fashionable to say things like "they don't play the games on paper"* and strawmen come into play all over the place. I'm going to try to do a better job ignoring that BS and focusing on enjoying baseball. [...]
Big Mak reprises his Series Preview in Blog feature and looks at the three game series against the Texas Rangers that kicks off the second half of the 2008 season.
Vincente Padilla vs Livan Hernandez
You didn't want to pay attention to that work this afternoon, did you?
"Sir" Sidney Ponson vs Nick Blackburn
Ponson's really been pretty decent so far.
Doug Mathis vs. Glen Perkins
Scott Feldman vs Boof Bonser
Any day now, I expect the Twins to become major players in this year's free agent market. Heh.
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