• Amaury Marti Watch

    Amaury Marti is currently hitting .424/.509/.633 in 39 games for the Mexican Red Devils of the Mexican League, also known as Liga de Amaury Cazana. Bud Selig ordered the Cardinals to banish him to there, in fear of the major leagues losing competitive balance.

    Amaury also refuses to accept the watch curse. He has the power to curse, and the power to bless.

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DFR 3/29/08

Joe Strauss looks at the shift in the Cardinals philosophies. He hits a sore spot or two.
The club made minimal use of cross-checkers before that draft, relying instead on area scouts and numbers. Luhnow, averse to devoting a premium pick on righthanded high school pitching, backed DeWitt’s objection to a first-round selection of Philip Hughes, [...]

Living with low velocity

Fangraphs is always adding to it’s stat-y goodness, now including pitch type leaderboards. Just out of curiosity, I wanted so see what big league right-handed starters in the MLB have P.J. Walters like velocity.
Average fastball velocity:
Livan Hernandez 83.6
Greg Maddux 84.7
Paul Byrd 85.6
Matt Morris 87.4
Josh Fogg 87.7
Greg Maddux is on another dimension, so just forget you [...]