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  1. GBTS

    This also helps support the guys who laughed Yellon out of the room when he threatened to sue us and Bloguin a few years back because someone was impersonating him in the comments section

    Who would do that?

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  10. uncle dave

    @ Berselius:

    […] the Brewers served only Schlitz, Miller, and Pabst at County Stadium. With three world-class breweries only a stone’s throw away, why would they do anything else?

    (dying laughing)

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  13. Alvin

    3 Ks, after a rough start to the inning, by which I mean Samardzija allowed two hits, allowed him to finish the inning with no runs allowed

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  15. JonKneeV

    BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT BUNT

    /calling MO

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  18. dmick89

    I was curious how frequently the highest strikeouts guys at the MLB level did at High A so I looked. I took the highest K% batters from 2010-2013 with a minimum of 600 PA. Adam Dunn and Brett Wallace didn’t play in High A so I took the 10 highest in MLB who played at High A and calculated their average K% when they were in High A.

    The average age was 21.1 and they averaged 406.9 PA. They struckout 94.1 times, which is 22.8%.

    Javier Baez has only 173 PA in High A, but he’s struckout 46 times, which is 23.6%. This season it’s much higher than that.

    However, only JP Arencibia had a lower BB% at High A than Baez. Arencibia’s strikeout rate was only 17.6%, which was the lowest in the group that I looked at.

    Chris Davis (29.4% K rate when he was in High A and 5.3% BB rate) might be the most similar to Baez.

    The average BB% for these guys at High A was 11.7%. If you’re going to strikeout a ton, you’ve got to get on base via the walk because your batting average is very likely going to be quite low. 8 of these 10 had BB% higher than 10%.

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  20. dmick89

    If Zambrowno started 1-4 the fans would be calling for his demotion. Samardzija has pitched great so far, but based on the fans weird old timey love for pitcher wins, he must be due for a demotion.

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