Poll: Will Brayan Pena get to actually start at Catcher?
by benfunke on Jun 18, 2009 12:49 PM EDT
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PrintSeems like several factors just may create the perfect storm for Pena to actually get a start:
-- He's put in the grunt work of sitting on the bench for 2+ weeks with only one start (in which the Royals won and he went 2 for 4, by the way)
-- Olivo has caught 9 games in a row without a rest
-- Olivo has shown that as bad as Pena's defense may be, it can't be that much worse.
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But if he does not go 4-4 with 4 HR’s and call a no-hitter while also saving a child from choking to death on a hot dog and doing some advanced planning work for Trey and Dayton’s 2009 income taxes between innings, then he will promptly be shipped back to Omaha as soon as Buck gets back.
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by Sweep_the_Leg on Jun 18, 2009 1:05 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
i bet it was higher yesterday morning.
Don't Stop Believing!
He will never start.
He is a AAA catcher in Trey’s mind.
Coffee. The NEW Performance Enhancing drug for Sport's Writers. Just ask Ken Rosenthal.
My bold prediction
Pena will get a start either Friday or Saturday so that Olivo doesn’t have to go day game after night game. But Olivo will start the other three games remaining in the home stand.
I am Billy Butler's Gold Glove.
On the other hand, Friday’s a 7:10 game, Saturday is 3:10, and Sunday is 1:10, so none of those would be on as short of rest as the typical 1:10 following 7:10. Maybe Olivo starts all four.
I am Billy Butler's Gold Glove.
i guess i could have looked at the pitching matchups
not that Hillman says he lives and dies by (or even pays attention to) the splits, but it sure would make sense to bat Pena against a righty starter
Fuck Miguel Olivo.
I’m an old skinny white guy who never got past juco baseball and old-man fastpitch softball and if you stuck me in the MLB right now my K:BB couldn’t be much worse than Miggy’s. Even if I had a worse BA/OBP/SLG OPS+ and WAR than TPJ, if I was K:BB of 50:4 it would be better than his. Of course I’d be a seive defensively but my point is not candy coated. Fuck Miguel Olivo he sucks.
Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a f@#%ing boat.
Back me up Gobble.
d< ‘_’ >b
Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a f@#%ing boat.
I'm not Gobble
but just like you I’d be smart enough to realize that the pitchers always throw me sliders low and away maybe a half inch off the ground and I swing at it everytime and miss. Yet I continue to do it. Don’t underestimate yourself. You could have a K:BB of 45:9. Just remember to lay off the high heat around your eyeballs (sorry I thought you were Guillen for a minute). I’ll even give you your choice of uniform number.
Miguel is a catcher, he should know what is coming on 0-2
Seriously, slider, low and away, means don’t swing Miggy! How can you fall for it once a game bare minimum?
It would not take MLB scouting a microsecond
to discover that I can’t lay off the high ones. But they would scream by so fast that I’d not have time to swing anyway.
Either way though it’s been 24 years since I’ve stood in the box against a live pitcher 60’ 6" away on a hill and none of them in the KJCCC could bring mid-90’s gas that tailed, followed by low 80’s sliders, mixed in with high 60’s hooks that exploded and high 80’s changes.
For godsakes the only FSCC Greyhounds player to ever make MLB was Adam LaRoche. I don’t know about the whole conference but it wasn’t much more than a bunch of Legion Ball players who just wouldn’t quit.
I did once though have a pitching machine shoot 100+ MPH stuff at me and after I got brave enough to not just jump away I at least fouled a few of em off. Pretty bad ass, it was one of those 2-wheel spinner machines that the ball comes out of with no spin on it and you never know which way it’s gonna move.
There’s no fuckin’ way I could even get a BB against even NL pitching. My K:BB would be terrible, but if I just stood there and took every pitch I think it could be better than Miggy’s.
Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a f@#%ing boat.
oh yeah and I'm not afraid to include
that I wasn’t even good enough to start in that conference, and barely even good enough to come off the bench. Too slow and a weenie arm defensively. Everyone else grew up and got better and I had already peaked in Babe Ruth League when my growth spurt happened and everyone else was on a normal growth curve.
I didn’t take HGH, my body just made its own when I was 15-16-17-18 years old.
Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a f@#%ing boat.
and for uniform number
if it can’t be 3 digits, like “225” or a fraction, like “1/8”
I’d have to choose “16” for Vlad the Impaler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Konstantinov
but the Butlerbean probably wouldn’t give it up.
Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a f@#%ing boat.
While we all agree Olivo sucks
what is ALARMING is that he was either 3rd or 4th among our starters in OPS, last time I checked.
Wow.
Mr Glass, this is a pro sports team, not a retail store - run it like one!
it is alarming, but then when we think about it
doesn’t it just reflect the overall suckage of the team?
Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a f@#%ing boat.
he is tied for 5th in wOBA (from Statcorner, includes park adjustment)
http://www.statcorner.com/team.php?team=KCA&year=2009&leag=A_L
it’s frankly somewhat amazing that he can have such fundamentally horrible patience at the plate and judgment of pitches, yet still be an above-average hitter.
1. Callaspo .363
2. Teahen .362
3. Guillen .352 (he now prefers walks)
4. Butler .348
5. Olivo .344
5. Jacobs .344
5. Bloomquist .344
is that above average hitter or
above average Royals hitter?
Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a f@#%ing boat.
i'm surprised to see that we have 7 guys at or above average
though Olivo/Jacobs/Bloomquist are just above average. the thing really holding the team average down is that our bad players have been REALLY bad: Aviles, DDJ, TPJ, even Coco
well as it has been debated, Coco
was only bad for a “little” while, and for that “while” he was playing hurt.
and for another “little while” earlier, he was playing better than he ever had before? so it all comes out in the wash?
Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a f@#%ing boat.
i would have thought so
and i’m a Coco supporter, but Statcorner’s wOBA has him at .323, which is definitely below average. i was a little surprised because his torrent of walks at the beginning of the season should have propped that up, though i guess his Avg. is pretty low.
Oh, and if Hillman
wouldn’t take a look at a 24 year old 1B prospect in September, when the team was 100% out of the race, and despite having seemingly no one blocking him at the position, then of course he’s not going to take a look at a catcher in June while the team is still theoretically in the race.
Mr Glass, this is a pro sports team, not a retail store - run it like one!
Holy Hawaii Batman
I just had an epiphany
Has Kila ever been a backstop?
Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a f@#%ing boat.
There's another 5 years in the minors while he learns the position
He’ll be lucky to be here before he turns 40.
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