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  1. Don Walcott
    Oops. My bad.
  2. Don Walcott
    Just turned the game on to Moya striking out two in a row. He’s my new favorite left-handed reliever after Taylor Rogers.
  3. Don Walcott
    What game?
  4. Don Walcott
    I was actually pointing out that Odorizzi makes a lot of non-competitive pitches that cannot be framed as a strike. But I appreciate and am a bit surprised by the zone %. Overall, the statistics are very close between Garver and Wilson catching, even though Garver doesn't get the benefit of catching Berrios and Gibson as much, while he's caught the vast majority of Lynn's and Odorizzi's games. ERA is 4.42 with Garver and 4.16 with Wilson. OPS is .756 pitching to Garver and .735 pitching to Wilson. I suspect those numbers would be fairly well flipped if Garver caught Berrios and Gibson more and Wilson had caught Lynn and Odorizzi more. Garver's numbers are also artificially jacked up by catching all of Santana's starts this year -- 8.03 ERA and 1.038 OPS in 5 games. And while the splits for the individual pitchers are a small sample size, only Berrios and Odorizzi (who has only been caught twice by Wilson) do better with Wilson behind the plate. Gibson has done far better in his 7 starts with Garver than in his 16 with Wilson. So I think it's not clear that having Wilson catch is better for the pitchers than having Garver catch, and there's a good argument for the opposite.
  5. Don Walcott
    Or it could make little or no difference because he is missing by so much it makes no difference. What do you truly believe is the difference between how many extra strikes Odorizzi might have gotten by having more pitches caught by Wilson? I think that it is as negligible as the subjective pitch calling that was your original criticism of Garver.
  6. Don Walcott
    Don’t worry about a thing. Cuz, every little pitch is gonna be a strike.
  7. Don Walcott
    Cave does like center field.
  8. Don Walcott
    Garcia did his hammy.
  9. Don Walcott
    Is it me being biased or does it seem like Miguel gets the short end of a lot of balls and strikes calls?
  10. Don Walcott
    Keep going . . . .
  11. Don Walcott
    Chief! It is you.
  12. Don Walcott
    I’d be careful what you admit to, as I hear things can’t be erased from the Interwebs.
  13. Don Walcott
    But Buxton wouldn’t have done that silly hop-half-jump.
  14. Don Walcott
    He’s faster on grass.
  15. Don Walcott
    I noticed the same thing about the hbp. Can you step over that line and get hit? Why was there no protest?
  16. Don Walcott
    I don't believe that Odorizzi's control issues have anything to do with pitch calling. He often misses way off the target and way out of the zone. Is there some objective evidence that Wilson is way better at calling games than Garver?
  17. Don Walcott
    Big Erv should be fired up for this one. Plus, for his own sake, he really needs to get back on track before he hits free agency. Go Big Erv!
  18. Don Walcott
    Nice play, Sano! Winnah!!
  19. Don Walcott
    I forgive him.
  20. Don Walcott
    Great throw, Mitch!
  21. Don Walcott
    What was that about a clean inning, Dick?
  22. Don Walcott
    Tough break for Garver. Tough game for Garver.
  23. Don Walcott
    Crap.
  24. Don Walcott
    Will Grossman’s injury lead to a chance for Wade?
  25. Don Walcott
    Well done, Trevor May!! Let’s see some more of that in the 9th.
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