“A very horseshit player.” The modifier is astounding. I highly recommend this quote.

fns.fns.

he was pretty much horse shit. i’ll give the devil his due on this one. fuck swisher

two of the backbones of my rotation (de la rosa, anderson) are on the DL. i took strasburg so that is looking like a bad gamble at this point as I really need the roster spot.

thank god for colby lewis, although of course he became the first texas pittcher since ryan to throw a shutout and get the ND.

my roster looks good on paper but so far I’m 6 under .500 as we play week 4.

fuck it, go sox. prove me wrong and get to .500 by june 8th.

doesn’t really point to much, going to have to wait for more data. One thing that stood out though is according to PitchFX he’s throwing his 2 seam fastball 23% of the time, which is outside his career norms. He’s throwing the 4 seamer only 30% of the time, which is again way down.

I haven’t been able to watch any of starts except the 1st one (again, month long vacation) but I have a question for those who have:

is he really throwing a 2 seam fastball almost 1/4 of the time? My theory is that the PitchFX data has just been refined to the point that they are now classifying it as a 2 seamer instead of a 4 seamer, although that is just a hunch.

He has almost “given up” on the slider according to PitchFX, although again it could be partly just a small sample and partly the classification of his other pitches to a 2 seamer, which can appear similar.

Is he really throwing a cutter 10% of the time? Again, not having seen him I have no idea, but according to PitchFX he’s throwing a bunch of pitches a bunch of different percentages than his career norms. Could be a small sample, could be the evolution of a pitcher, could be PitchFX classification problems.

I would love to have a savvy reporter ask him these questions, but it knowing the Sox beat reporters it’s not going to happen.

Velocity is down, but only slightly, to 91 on the fastball from 91.8 last year and 92.6 in 2008. Velocity usually drops as pitcher ages but most can make up for it with "knowing how to pitch’. I’m not that concerned about his velocity.

Control is a huge problem as is keeping the ball down. 41% of his pitches are going for fly balls and 10.3% of those are leaving the yard.

His walk rate is 6.28 per 9 innings, which, yea, blows.

One more slightly interesting piece of data, which might be related to the walk rate is that batters are only swining at 22% of his pitches outside the strike zone — he isn’t getting many guys to “go fishing”.

might formalize this into a fanpost later, but really the only conclusion I an draw is that it’s 28.2 innings and Jake Peavy a) can’t find the strike zone, b) when he does find it he’’s finding it right down the middle and c) he might be trying to become more of a “pitcher” than a “thrower” (see his velocity, pitch types) and that the transition is not going very well.

I’m not that worried about him after reviewing the data, I just think we need to realize he’s a solid number 2 starter at best, and he might (because of an adjustment period in his career) make those type of number 2 stats until later on in the summer and fall.

We can only hope the Sox are still around the pack of he does.

The Sox were well-aware of Swisher’s outgoing nature that could be viewed as being self-absorbed, especially after one incident in which he showed his bobblehead doll to his teammates in the clubhouse

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/05/swishers-fist-pump-noticed-by-guillen.html

you know, i would have thought that the terrible incident that would be cited as the case in point for why a player is shipped out of town would be something far worse than showing your teammates your bobblehead.

After the Hawks completely shit the bed.. I will save my analysis for Second City Hockey, but suffice to say we have had some major problems carry over from the end of the season

FNS fns fns fns fns dirty bastard

that Nick Swisher is on the cheat’s fantasy baseball team? Utility player.

i dont like him.

Not that there is anything wrong with that… other than FNS.

Once more?

 FNS

sox won 2 games on the road trip, I retired T dogg…. what else can go right? maybe Buehrle will throw a gem today!

holy fuck.

The team hotel was two blocks away from last night’s bomb scare

“I think they handled it really well,” Guillen said. "At 2 o’clock in the morning, I was up watching the news and the mayor came on (television) to talk about it. He looked pretty good for 2 in the morning. They handled it very well. We should feel proud about the people in New York the way they handled it.