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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
Penny - K = Win: Dodgers 10, Nationals 0
It's been noted Brad Penny's strikeout rate has been falling for a while now, and so far this year, he's got a 5.53 K/9 rate. He struck out four Nationals through six and a third yesterday, odd because Washington is the fifth-easiest team to whiff in the league. Oh, well, he got the win and pitched a shutout, so what am I complaining about?
I found it very ironic that Marc Normandin would author this piece slamming Juan Pierre as the boat anchor that would kill the Dodgers' prospects of winning the division:
It was assumed by many that Juan Pierre’s offense would dip further into the realms of awful when he signed with the Dodgers, but this beats even my negative expectations. Pierre is hitting .274/.307/.307 on the season, a 614 OPS. To put that into perspective, there are five players with slugging percentages higher than Pierre’s OPS. His Isolated Power figure of .033 is the 37th worst with at least 225 plate appearances in the past twenty-five seasons.Juan Pierre was 4-for-5 in yesterday's game, all of them on line drives. Normandin points out that Pierre is hitting far fewer ground ball hits than usual, and making more outs in the field. This game is just the flip side of that, where those balls don't end up in gloves. I'm a Juan-half-empty guy myself, so Normandin's admonition that "you might as well just stick Brady Clark in center to satisfy your veteran fetish" strikes me as perfectly sound. It's a win, but it's not how the Dodgers will win....
Colletti has done some good and some bad in his time as Dodger G.M., but this signing helps to erase a lot of good. If they end up missing out on the NL West title by a few games, you can blame Pierre’s lack of production for it.
Labels: dodgers, nationals, recaps
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