OT: Raise the Jolly Roger | (Not Gerrit) Cole's Loser Luck

[djt153]

lets not forget that volquez has had a pretty dominant september

 

[cheesedanish87]

I was looking at some of the lifetime numbers for Volquez against the Giants hitters, they aren't very good.

Belt is 8 for 18
Posey is 5 for 9
Sandoval is 6 for 13

Volquez has done a good job against Pence 7 for 36, but Pence has 3 homers.

Against Bumgarner we got a few guys with some decent numbers

Harrison 4 for 5
Martin and Mercer 3 for 7
Gaby and Walker 3 for 9

My lineup would be
Harrison
Mercer
Cutch
Martin
Marte
Walker
Gaby
Snider

 

[Pick87your71Poison]

I was looking at some of the lifetime numbers for Volquez against the Giants hitters, they aren't very good.

Belt is 8 for 18
Posey is 5 for 9
Sandoval is 6 for 13

Volquez has done a good job against Pence 7 for 36, but Pence has 3 homers.

Against Bumgarner we got a few guys with some decent numbers

Harrison 4 for 5
Martin and Mercer 3 for 7
Gaby and Walker 3 for 9

My lineup would be
Harrison
Mercer
Cutch
Martin
Marte
Walker
Gaby
Snider

My guess at the lineup is:

Harrison
Mercer
Cutch
Walker
Martin
Marte
Snider
Gaby

But there are def a couple things that could move around in there...

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

My guess at the lineup is:

Harrison
Mercer
Cutch
Walker
Martin
Marte
Snider
Gaby

But there are def a couple things that could move around in there...

For one, there is no way Walker is batting cleanup against a leftie.

 

[Pick87your71Poison]

For one, there is no way Walker is batting cleanup against a leftie.

Probably right, I have in my head taht they have played him more there this year than in the past, but would make sense to drop him a cuople spots. He has def improved a lot vs lefties this year which is good. The power isn't there, but he actually has a higher average/OBP vs lefties this year than vs righties oddly.

 

[ImporterExporter]

I was looking at some of the lifetime numbers for Volquez against the Giants hitters, they aren't very good.

Belt is 8 for 18
Posey is 5 for 9
Sandoval is 6 for 13

Volquez has done a good job against Pence 7 for 36, but Pence has 3 homers.

Against Bumgarner we got a few guys with some decent numbers

Harrison 4 for 5
Martin and Mercer 3 for 7
Gaby and Walker 3 for 9

My lineup would be
Harrison
Mercer
Cutch
Martin
Marte
Walker
Gaby
Snider

Marte is tearing the cover off the ball. Plus his speed is needed up top. Mercer doesn't run well enough IMO to put him at 2 in a game like this. If Cutch or Martin gap one, you can bet Marte is scoring from 1st base. Mercer, not so much in most cases. Otherwise like the setup.

Harrison
Marte
Cutch
Martin
Mercer
Walker
Gaby
Snider

 

[WickedWrister]

While I certainly want our best pitcher on the mound for the only do or die game of the season, I'm okay with Volquez starting considering we had a shot at the division on the last day of the season. Look at Volquez's numbers this month ... 1.08 ERA, 2nd best in MLB. The dude is absolutely on fire right now

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

Probably right, I have in my head taht they have played him more there this year than in the past, but would make sense to drop him a cuople spots. He has def improved a lot vs lefties this year which is good. The power isn't there, but he actually has a higher average/OBP vs lefties this year than vs righties oddly.

Yeah obp is one thing but his ops is about 100 points higher as a left handed hitter. In addition he has had about 4 times as many ab's as a lefty so his righty average would be likely to regress to the mean considering he has never been a very good right handed hitter. With the depth of our lineup you want Walker as a 7 or 8 hitter as a righty. Tbh I still wish he would just hit leftie all the time.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

****, we got Joe West for the WC game.

 

[cheesedanish87]

If West is behind the plate that's bad news for Volquez and Bumgarner, West has a small strike zone.

 

[Pick87your71Poison]

Well to keep things optimistic, we are a much better OBP team than the Giants... maybe that helps haha?

 

[cheesedanish87]

Well West was behind the plate for last years NL wildcard game, so maybe that's some good karma.

 

[Fogel]

Volquez has been outperforming his peripherals and his FIP/xFIP. I think the Hurdle is putting too much stock in his low ERA recently.

 

[Winger for Hire]

Anyone mention the fact that the Giants have to fly cross country for the game and how that could be a nice advantage for the Buccos in a one-off?

Not to mention we can recruit some fans to go and pull some fire alarms and what not at their team hotel....

 

[Big McLargehuge]

I've always wanted to watch playoff baseball in Montreal...I just never meant in a sports a bar

 

[Penguins23]

West isn't behind the plate, he's just the crew chief.

 

[ImporterExporter]

Big, you need to change the thread title immediately. Losing ever since the last thread closed down.

Merci beaucoup

 

[bathroomSTAAL]

Better yet, just abort this one and start a new one

 

[WickedWrister]

Anyone mention the fact that the Giants have to fly cross country for the game and how that could be a nice advantage for the Buccos in a one-off?

Not to mention we can recruit some fans to go and pull some fire alarms and what not at their team hotel....

That actually happened Friday night in Cincinnati at the Westin where the Pirates were staying.

 

[cheesedanish87]

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/...els-nationals-orioles-tigers-cardinals-092914

CJ Nitkowski showing the Pirates some love picking the Pirates to win the world series.

Looking forward to tonight's game, i'd like to see KC win tonight.

 

[No Quarter*]

I think the Souza catch to save Zimmermans no no the other night for The Nationals is one of the greatest catches I've ever seen!!!!
Ranks with the infamous Edmonds diving catch years back.