Monday, May 25, 2009

Drag the Lake

"I take a lot of responsibility for what's going on," Wells said. "It's frustrating for everyone. When things are going poorly, guys want to do too much to get everybody out of what we're going through. It's just a matter of taking a deep breath and getting back to our approaches."
About those approaches...is the Citocity wearing off?

Vernon Wells, the much maligned star of Sunday's loss, has exactly zero hits to the opposite field this year. Zero. Nil. On balls hit up the middle, his OPS is .533. That is some extreme shit.

Consider Aaron Hill, team leader in OPS. When the ball goes up the middle, his OPS is .884. He has 36 hits in that direction. Lyle Overbay is second on the team in overall OPS thanks to his .977 mark up the middle. Alex Rios's up the middle/opposite field OPS are .590/.636. Maybe Rios & Wells could try something other than dead pull. Just try.

Daylife for the picture and Bastian for the quote
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9 comments:

  1. Knowing that you guys are no longer in first and given the information above, I'm shocked at the absence of the "we're fucked" tag.
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  2. Being a half game out of first in the hardest division while scraping the bottom of the starting pitching barrel is far from fucked.
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  3. I agree with Manute: not fucked but pressing. TAKE THE BALL WHERE IT'S PITCHED VERNON!
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  4. Citocity is not wearing off. But Vernon's doing his best to make it happen, Jesus. You're right, "that is some extreme shit."

    Fuck. This has ruined my Monday.
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  5. He's still leading the league in chest bumps, though.
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  6. wasn't the knock on denbo that he was trying to get rios to go the other way more?
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  7. "Valentine's Day is Over" -- Billy Bragg
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  8. The knock on Denbo may have been trying to beat patience into their impatient skulls. I'm advocating an aggressive approach that stops short of "attempting to spin on everything, hook it into the corner or fuck off."

    Stay aggressive but use the whole field.
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  9. I guess at least Wells is taking the blame on his massive struggles. In other news, the amount of pop-ups from this team lately has been beyond frustrating.
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