A 4-2 week against the Astros and Dodgers. The Rox currently stand at 64-70. Ten and half games behind the D-Backs for the division lead in third place. Currently 35-33 at home and 29-37 on the road, the Rox have been outscored by its opponents 624-619 (expected wins is 67 versus historical wins at 63). On pace for 77 wins with 748 runs scored and 754 runs against. Playoff indicator (Runs scored/Runs Against ratio) is 0.99 (1.16 indicates high playoff potential).
Rox finally have a decent home stand going 7-2 and sweep the Astros last week. Face it the Rox aren't going anywhere this year. Management has done its best to indicate they aren't throwing in the towel and continue to talk like there is still an outside chance to squeak into the playoffs. Waiver claim on Wandy Rodriquez at least indicates there willingness to make something happen. When the season is over pitching problems will probably define this lost season and so I applaud Rox for at least making an effort.
Unfortunately we then compare a nice three game sweep to almost getting swept in LA over the weekend. Media types would like us to think that LA and the owner problems swirling around the team would describe why they are in 4th place and treading water. The problem I see is that not much separates LA from our Rox. Both have some nice young starting pitching (well we used to have UBall and Kershaw, Chacin and Billingsly), decent bullpen, some nice offensive pieces (like Kemp and Either/Loney against Tulo and CarGo), and good dugout coaches and you know what? Both teams are 6 - 8 games under 0.500 and going no where this year. Kind of shows you that a lot of nice individual pieces don't always fit together to form a complete team.
And the worst thing about all of this? Yup D-Backs were 80 to 1 odds to win the world series (worse in our division) while our Rox were 20 to 1 and who gets the opportunity in October...yup that would probably by the D-Backs. Yikes baseball can sure mess with us.
Understatement of the Year
"I wonder where we would be if we had 50-55 more RBIs from third base. Been an issue all year," Tracy said
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Rox finally have a decent home stand going 7-2 and sweep the Astros last week. Face it the Rox aren't going anywhere this year. Management has done its best to indicate they aren't throwing in the towel and continue to talk like there is still an outside chance to squeak into the playoffs. Waiver claim on Wandy Rodriquez at least indicates there willingness to make something happen. When the season is over pitching problems will probably define this lost season and so I applaud Rox for at least making an effort.
Unfortunately we then compare a nice three game sweep to almost getting swept in LA over the weekend. Media types would like us to think that LA and the owner problems swirling around the team would describe why they are in 4th place and treading water. The problem I see is that not much separates LA from our Rox. Both have some nice young starting pitching (well we used to have UBall and Kershaw, Chacin and Billingsly), decent bullpen, some nice offensive pieces (like Kemp and Either/Loney against Tulo and CarGo), and good dugout coaches and you know what? Both teams are 6 - 8 games under 0.500 and going no where this year. Kind of shows you that a lot of nice individual pieces don't always fit together to form a complete team.
And the worst thing about all of this? Yup D-Backs were 80 to 1 odds to win the world series (worse in our division) while our Rox were 20 to 1 and who gets the opportunity in October...yup that would probably by the D-Backs. Yikes baseball can sure mess with us.
Understatement of the Year
"I wonder where we would be if we had 50-55 more RBIs from third base. Been an issue all year," Tracy said
Look What I Did
I sent this along...
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