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From the BPro 2005 writeup of the Oakland Athletics: But instead of noting the aspiring mediocrity of a line-up no longer among the league's best, most of the finger-pointing has been directed at the pitching staff.The rotation went from famous to troubled down the stretch, with Mark Mulder going flaky, Zito staying flaky, Tim Hudson breaking down, and Mark Redman doing an excellent impersonation of himself.
Wow. The things you learn from Baseball Prospectus! I mean, I had no idea that A's only had four starting pitchers. They must've sent Rich Harden down; he must have earned that 2.97 ERA in August in AAA or something, and it's clearly just more of that golden calf ERA worship to put any faith in the 3.54 that Zito put together in that same period, too.
And hey, I didn't know that the last week of June , which is when Timmy actually got injured, was part of the stretch! August, when he was actually back and throwing eight-inning shutouts, clearly isn't!
. . . Sorry, BPro. Good writing. Shitty, shitty, shitty analysis and research right there.The only part of the Oakland A's review worth the ink it took to print it is the part where the writer points out that nobody got Rule 5'd out of Oakland.
KEVIN BROWN: Factor in [besides his age] that Brown has the worst constitution this sid eof Ukraine and the personality of a menstrual hippopatamus, and that he'd be facing the DH for the first time since 1995, and what you got was the Yankees taking a gamble.
RUBEN SIERRA:
Coming off the bench as a big-inning finisher against righties (only!), Sierra had value. Unfortunately, a fluek playier of the Week citation in early May propelled the old man into way too much playing itme. Exhibit A in the brief for Joe Cashman/Joe Torre having a mental acuity off-year is their soehomw never relaizing that getting a .281 OBP/456 SLG from yoru primary HD will kill you father than drinking Drano. Sick joke of the year: Sierra wants ot be a batting coach after he retires. "OK, lad. First set up as far to the outside of the batter's box as you can without sitting in the dugout. THen, when a pitcher throws one on the outside corner, you waive [sic] at it like it was the Love Boat pulling out of Puerto Vallarta. Dig?"
JOHN VAN DER WAL
Today is gonna be the day
That he'll slap a pinch-hit single for you
By now you should've somehow
Wondered how at 34 he slugged .562
I don't believe that anybody
Thought he'd last 14 years except his mom
. . . Because maybe
We tip our caps to his playing
And after all
He was aour Van Der Wal
Wow. The things you learn from Baseball Prospectus! I mean, I had no idea that A's only had four starting pitchers. They must've sent Rich Harden down; he must have earned that 2.97 ERA in August in AAA or something, and it's clearly just more of that golden calf ERA worship to put any faith in the 3.54 that Zito put together in that same period, too.
And hey, I didn't know that the last week of June , which is when Timmy actually got injured, was part of the stretch! August, when he was actually back and throwing eight-inning shutouts, clearly isn't!
. . . Sorry, BPro. Good writing. Shitty, shitty, shitty analysis and research right there.The only part of the Oakland A's review worth the ink it took to print it is the part where the writer points out that nobody got Rule 5'd out of Oakland.
KEVIN BROWN: Factor in [besides his age] that Brown has the worst constitution this sid eof Ukraine and the personality of a menstrual hippopatamus, and that he'd be facing the DH for the first time since 1995, and what you got was the Yankees taking a gamble.
RUBEN SIERRA:
Coming off the bench as a big-inning finisher against righties (only!), Sierra had value. Unfortunately, a fluek playier of the Week citation in early May propelled the old man into way too much playing itme. Exhibit A in the brief for Joe Cashman/Joe Torre having a mental acuity off-year is their soehomw never relaizing that getting a .281 OBP/456 SLG from yoru primary HD will kill you father than drinking Drano. Sick joke of the year: Sierra wants ot be a batting coach after he retires. "OK, lad. First set up as far to the outside of the batter's box as you can without sitting in the dugout. THen, when a pitcher throws one on the outside corner, you waive [sic] at it like it was the Love Boat pulling out of Puerto Vallarta. Dig?"
JOHN VAN DER WAL
Today is gonna be the day
That he'll slap a pinch-hit single for you
By now you should've somehow
Wondered how at 34 he slugged .562
I don't believe that anybody
Thought he'd last 14 years except his mom
. . . Because maybe
We tip our caps to his playing
And after all
He was aour Van Der Wal