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Link Roundup: Pedro Goes to Florida; Brewers Go to Playoffs

-P- Congratulations to the Brewers, who made the playoffs for the first time since 1982. I've written about the Brewers a lot here because them and the Pirates are like two sides of the same coin, so there's no need to belabor the issue, because I'm repeating myself, and anyway a lot of the lessons are so simple even a child could learn them. To wit:

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Goofus takes lots of apples from revenue sharing. Gallant grows nice things on the farm outside the windows of his house, then trades them to other kids for CC Sabathia. See? Easy!

Today, though, I marvel at Sabathia's exemplary pitching down the stretch. There's no way the Brewers would have made the playoffs without him. I wonder if the remarkable success of the Sabathia and Manny Ramirez deals (so far, at least) will encourage more teams to trade prospects next year at the deadline. 

-P- Big props to the Post-Gazette, who had a reporter on the scene for Pedro Alvarez's arrival at Pirate City in Florida yesterday.

-P- Taking a trip to Arbitrary-Endpointville, Steve Pearce went 8-for-25 with a double and three homers in his last six games. 

-P- How awful must it be to be the Tigers today? Months after trading their farm system for Miguel Cabrera, Dontrelle Willis and Edgar Renteria and becoming a popular preseason World Series pick, they have to play the White Sox in a makeup game that could decide not only whether or not the Sox go to the playoffs, but whether the Tigers finish dead last, or merely tied for last. Their pitching did them in--Justin Verlander had a mediocre year, Kenny Rogers and Nate Robertson were downright awful, and Jeremy Bonderman barely pitched.

 

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No surprise to me

I won my beer bet with the Tigers fan I know. He said Willis would win 15 games. He never had a chance. I saw where Willis was heading — the Marlins had piled the innings on him somehow without him getting hurt, ERAs skyrocketing. The logical thing to do was expect an injury, or at best continued mediocrity.

Rogers? The guy’s 50 years old and they were counting on HIM?

As for some of their other arms, I figured Verlander was a stud but the regression after the one great season indicated that possibly the rest had miraculously put their career years together at one time, kind of like we keep hoping Snell and Gorzo etc. will do.

And … Jeebus, Goofus and Gallant? It’s been decades …

by bucdaddy on Sep 29, 2008 9:53 AM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Tigers pitching

Plus the Dontrelle Willis disaster (now opening for the Wesley Willis Fiasco – at least in my head). It’s easy to forget about him because he spent so much time offscreen this year, but they were counting on him pretty heavily and he showed absolutely nothing. Which is a shame, because he’s fun to watch when he’s on, with that big leg kick.

by Vlad on Sep 29, 2008 10:09 AM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Oops.

Missed your mention in the Cabrera sentence.

by Vlad on Sep 29, 2008 10:10 AM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Colin Dunlap in Florida

What a waste! Dunlap is on an ego trip. It was very nice of Alvarez to have put up with him like he did.

by thegunner on Sep 29, 2008 10:56 AM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Unfortunate, but probably necessary.

The pitching was just way too ugly for them to bring him back. Not sure who they’ll pursue for the position next year – I think Rick Peterson’s still on the market, and he’d be a good replacement.

Not sure why Frazier was canned. The 1B coach doesn’t do much of anything beyond keeping runners at first from being picked off, and we seem to have been OK in that area this year. I didn’t notice any glaring defects in the OFs, either – they just kind of are what they are.

by Vlad on Sep 29, 2008 12:54 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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