Strasburg Strasburg Strasburg Strasburg. Strasburg Strasburg? Strasburg Strasburg- Strasburg!
And now I've summed up the baseball-sphere for the past 24 hours. But I think someone else played some games, too. Shall we check?
Recaps!
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[Talking Chop] The Braves Overcome 3 Home Runs to Beat The Diamondbacks 7-5 - Predictably, the Braves' bullpen proved to be stronger than the Diamondbacks'.
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[fanster.com] Walks, wild pitches doom Diamondbacks - We've seen home runs allowed doom the Diamondbacks in 2010. That wasn't the case on Tuesday night.
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[tsn.ca] Glaus leads the way as Braves rally past Diamondbacks - Troy Glaus doubled in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, as the Atlanta Braves rallied late for a 7-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second of a four-game set.
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[examiner.com] Walks kill D-Backs in loss to Braves - The Diamondbacks pitching staff continued their best imitation of the Three Mile Island melt down.
Some more news, draft talk, and passing mention of some game back east yesterday, just after the jump.
DBacks News:-
[azcentral.com] Arizona Diamondbacks stock up on pitching in draft - By the time the Diamondbacks had made their third-round selection Tuesday on Day 2 of baseball's draft, trends were beginning to emerge.
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[FoxSportsArizona] D-Backs' draft is loaded with pitchers - "One thing we wanted to do as an organization was to get back to our checklist of what we think major league pitchers do – the good, the bad, the mental and the physical."
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[FanGraphs.com] Chad Qualls Escapes A Jam - A look at Qualls's performance so far this season.
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[FoxSportsArizona] Changes on the way - Writing for FSN Arizona, Jim takes a shot at try predicting who we might see move in the shake-ups we've been promised. Trading the Green Lantern? Not cool, Jim, not cool.
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[Beyond the Box Score] BtB Power Rankings: Week 9 - BtB has the DBacks listed at #20 on their power rankings. By some arcane means, they also estimate we've allowed 70+ more runs to score than our other stats would imply? Ick.
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[SBNation.com] MLB Power Rankings: The Angels Are Awake - SBNation.com - Meanwhile, SBN has us at a less-surprising #26.
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[FanGraphs.com] Top 10s Revisited: NL West | FanGraphs Baseball - FanGraphs takes a (very) brief look at the top ten prospects for each team in the NL West.
Around the Strasburg League:
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[deadspin.com] Bob Costas Feeds The Strasburg Hype Machine - I half expected to hear Costas camped out in Strasburg's parking space, hoping for an autograph. I was embarrassed for everyone involved.
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[SBNation.com] Stephen Strasburg's 'Strasmas' Gives America's Sportswriters A 'Strasgasm' - SBN offers an excellent collection of samples of the overhyping from around the country.
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[huffingtonpost.com] Armando Galarraga 'Perfect Game' Gear Going To Hall Of Fame - The Tigers will donate the ball, the base, and the spikes from what should have been the last out of the game. But it will be tragically destroyed in two weeks when Bob Costas bulldozes the whole site to replace it with a shrine to Stephen Strasburg.
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[FanGraphs.com] The Amateur Draft: Why Not Have Two? - Why not run an international draft during the off-season meetings? Seems like it could be a good move to me.
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[fanhouse.com] The Story of Pete Rose and a Corked Bat - Pete Rose wouldn't comment? Has that ever happened before?
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[freep.com] How Jim Joyce went from Toledo to the bigs to national scrutiny - "My mom didn't understand why it was so important or why it was so bad." Probably the best article I've read on the whole thing from Joyce's point of view. I gotta feel bad for the guy.
Well, that's all for now. Now, we settle back, and suffer the cold, empty, painful silence until Strasburg's next outi- wait, there's still baseball today? Huh, who knew?