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O-o-T-S -- 7/2/13

Frayed Knot Jul 02 2013 07:49 PM

Homer Bailey no-hitting the Giants into the 9th No longer a perfect game - but gets the come-backer for the first out

Frayed Knot Jul 02 2013 07:55 PM Re: O-o-T-S -- 7/2/13

FO - K - GO Second no-hitter for Bailey. 26th (I think they said) pitcher with >1 in his career. Bailey also now has the last two no-nos. He got the final one of last season and now the first one of this year.

Swan Swan H Jul 02 2013 07:57 PM Re: O-o-T-S -- 7/2/13

I always pull for the pitcher in no-hitters where I have no real rooting interest.

Frayed Knot Jul 02 2013 09:13 PM Re: O-o-T-S -- 7/2/13

In other news: - Brews get 4 in the 8th after Strasburg is pulled and shut-out the Nats - Braves thump Marlins - Phils over Pitt - Pujols 0-2 so far w/2 Ks in his first games against StL (although not IN StL). Angels winning though 5-1 in the 4th - and it wouldn't be a Yanqui trip to Minneapolis without the Twins gagging. 7-1 in the 9th

Frayed Knot Jul 03 2013 07:01 AM Re: O-o-T-S -- 7/2/13

Homer Bailey's 2nd career no-hitter reminds me of the winter when he and the Yanx' Phil Hughes were pitching prospects 1 & 1A (in either order) according to the prospect watchers at the time. BA, for instance, ranked Hughes as their top pitching prospect and Bailey as their 2nd (4th & 5th overall) in 2007. So I thought a little comparison was in order between these same age/same sized RHPs Both were drafted in the 1st round out of HS in the 2004 draft: Bailey 7th overall and Hughes 24th although neither exactly set the world on fire once they got to the big leagues (words of caution to World-Wide Wheeler watchers) after making their ML debuts about six weeks apart. Bailey career: 128 Games (all starts) 755 IP. Record = 43-39; 4.36 ERA; 1.34 WHiP; 617 K; 248 BB Hughes career: 168 GP (119 starts) 726 IP. Record = 56-43; 4.41 ERA; 1.30 WHiP; 611 K; 228 BB Like I said, neither is contending for CY awards but those careers are pretty fargin' even although one could claim that Bailey has been better more recently [ERA of ~ 4.6 since the beginning of 2012 as opposed to Hughes's ~4.35] Hughes can be a FA at the end of this season, Bailey at the end of next.

Frayed Knot Jul 03 2013 10:56 AM Re: O-o-T-S -- 7/2/13

Pujols meeting the Cardinals for the first time got me to thinking of this: Albert since leaving StL: 1,036 PAs; .274/.336/.484 [career w/StL = .328/.420/.617] StL 1B-men 2012-13: 1,060 PAs; .294/.346/.479 Then throw in that Pujols has (and in many cases has had to) DH'd 84 times for Anaheim while playing 151 times at 1B This gives credence to the 'Moneyball' adage that it's easier to recover from the player you fail to sign than it is to recover from one you sign at the wrong price. I'm sure Cardinal fans were crushed at the time by his departure but, at age 33 with still eight and one half years to go on his deal, it looks like they didn't just dodge a bullet but a freaking cannonball.

seawolf17 Jul 03 2013 11:26 AM Re: O-o-T-S -- 7/2/13

Baseball Nation throws Tim Lincecum into that Bailey/Hughes mix as a third wheel: http://www.baseballnation.com/2013/7/3/ ... hil-hughes Homer Bailey, Tim Lincecum, and Phil Hughes. You were supposed to pick one and argue on his behalf before the 2007 season. There weren't the only three right-handed pitching prospects in baseball, but there was mostly certainly a three-righty tier at the top. Hughes was the #4 prospect in baseball, Bailey #5, and Lincecum #11. When the minor-league season opened, Baseball America led with the Triple-A debuts of all three. Whichever one you picked told a little bit about you. A pitching-prospect Rorschach test, then.

Edgy MD Jul 03 2013 11:45 AM Re: O-o-T-S -- 7/2/13

Frayed Knot wrote: I'm sure Cardinal fans were crushed at the time by his departure but, at age 33 with still eight and one half years to go on his deal, it looks like they didn't just dodge a bullet but a freaking cannonball. And really, from Reggie Jackson to Mo Vaughn, from Garry Matthews, Jr. to Torii Hunter to Vernon Wells, from Josh Hamilton to... to... Collin Cowgill (yeah, I said it!), how many of those cannonballs have the Angels been willing to absorb for somebody else. It's glorious, in it's own way. Their franchise raises their own Statue of Liberty: [list]Give me your aging, your fat, Your former All-Stars yearning to be paid, The wretched injured of your youth-filled rosters. Send these, the speedless, fastball-lost to me, I lift my purse beside the golden door!"[/list:u]

seawolf17 Jul 03 2013 11:48 AM Re: O-o-T-S -- 7/2/13

PLUS Reggie totally tried to kill the queen. Not cool, Reg.