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Re: Time to get Oswalt - Too late, he's a Ranger (pg 7)
Posted: August 1 12, 7:45 am
by lukethedrifter
If you can't toot your own horn, why have one?
Re: Time to get Oswalt - Too late, he's a Ranger (pg 7)
Posted: August 1 12, 7:50 am
by cards2468
lukethedrifter wrote:If you can't toot your own horn, why have one?
To play with when you're home alone.
Re: Time to get Oswalt - Too late, he's a Ranger (pg 7)
Posted: August 1 12, 10:57 am
by sighyoung
cards2468 wrote:lukethedrifter wrote:If you can't toot your own horn, why have one?
To play with when you're home alone.
And to scoot when you're in a crowd.
Re: Time to get Oswalt - Too late, he's a Ranger (pg 7)
Posted: August 6 12, 11:29 am
by Numbers
Re: Time to get Oswalt - Too late, he's a Ranger (pg 7)
Posted: August 6 12, 11:49 am
by sighyoung
I'd heard Oswalt wasn't happy about going to the bullpen. Who knows--maybe he was being honest about what he could do, but clearly the Rangers read it as Roy's dissatisfaction over being a reliever.
Re: Time to get Oswalt - Too late, he's a Ranger (pg 7)
Posted: August 6 12, 11:52 am
by cards2468
I wish I was a major league starting pitcher, but you don't see me [expletive] about it. Try being good at pitching before you complain about not having the job you want, Roy.
Re: Time to get Oswalt - Too late, he's a Ranger (pg 7)
Posted: August 6 12, 11:54 am
by Vidor
Guess those of us who wanted to get him were wrong. 6.49 ERA. Ow.
Re: Time to get Oswalt - Too late, he's a Ranger (pg 7)
Posted: August 6 12, 12:27 pm
by cpebbles
3.45 xFIP. Little early to write him off. I also don't see the problem with a pitcher who's adapting to a bullpen role being reticent about staying in a game when his arm feels overworked.
Re: Time to get Oswalt - Too late, he's a Ranger (pg 7)
Posted: August 6 12, 12:50 pm
by sighyoung
cpebbles wrote:3.45 xFIP. Little early to write him off. I also don't see the problem with a pitcher who's adapting to a bullpen role being reticent about staying in a game when his arm feels overworked.
Yeah, I suspect this is much ado about nothing.
Re: Time to get Oswalt - Too late, he's a Ranger (pg 7)
Posted: August 6 12, 1:02 pm
by Socnorb11
cpebbles wrote:3.45 xFIP. Little early to write him off. I also don't see the problem with a pitcher who's adapting to a bullpen role being reticent about staying in a game when his arm feels overworked.
Isn't xFIP directly correlated to home run rate?
Oswalt's home run rate may be a little inflated (although I think the sample size is too small to say for sure), but even if you consider that, he's been pretty bad. His WHIP is 1.60, ground balls are down, line drives are up. He just doesn't seem to be fooling anyone.