ShadowPenguin
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Todd Helton: Fighting the Media Bias
by ShadowPenguin on Sep 30, 2009 6:26 PM EDT
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So, here goes my first FanPost, hopefully I have done this well enough to meet the requirements ;-)
Joe Posnanski wrote an article glorifying Chipper Jones.
Why do I care? Because it says Chipper is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. It then goes on to glorify Chipper's achievement of doing better than .300/.400/.500 in playing over 2000 games. Only 14 players in MLB history have done that, most of them in the Hall. Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Stan Musial, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Tris Speaker, Mel Ott, and Harry Heilmann. These 10 are in the HoF. Also listed are Frank Thomas, Manny Ramirez, and Edgar Martinez, but who knows how they'll be judged for the HoF. Anyway, fair enough, let's consider Chipper a HoFer.
Anyway, the real reason for this? Todd Helton. Todd and Chipper have many parallels. They are consistently great players. They have long careers with one team. They've battled for batting titles, silver sluggers, and have been voted to 5 (Todd) and 6 (Chipper) all-star games.
Chipper's career line: .308/.407/.542 in 16 seasons.
Todd's career line: .328/.427/.566 in 13 seasons.
However, Todd is just over 1800 games played, he needs 200 more to join the previously mentioned list.
Must he pass 2000 games to become the 15th player on that list, before he starts getting HoF respect? Assuming he does as bad as his worst season for 200 more games (I took his injury plagued 2008 season stats for this). We end up adding 200 games, 867 PAs, 718 ABs, 190 hits, 38 doubles, 17 homers, 70 RBI, 146 walks, and 120 Ks. Todd's line ends up .321/.423/.566 (SLG% seems weird, the numbers for total bases don't add up...)
So even if Todd Helton falls apart these next 2 seasons, his numbers still dwarf Chipper's numbers.
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Barmes’ amazing catch … or was it?
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It’s a closer look at Barmes’ catch from a few photographers at the game. A couple pictures make it seem like maybe he didn’t catch it.
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Via the Denver Post, Cookie is planned to go 70 pitches on Friday. It'll be good to have him back, and see if he can regain his early season form, and solidify the pitching going into October!
Also suggested is Contreras coming in after Cook's pitch count is up, and providing 2-3 innings of relief. His strained quad is apparently doing better.
Historic Tulo Accomplishment?
The second section on the page has an interesting possible accomplishment for Tulo this season.
If Tulo finishes with a .990 or better fielding percentage, he'll be the only shortstop in history to hit 25+ homers and have a .990+ field% in the same season.
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Decent article from Sports Illustrated, repeating most of what we already knew about the Rox turnaround, pitching, and revival under Tracy.
Oh, and a new nickname. Carlos "The Knife" Gonzalez!
More Info on EYJ and Murton Call-up
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Most surprising is that it looks like EYJ is gonna start in center and lead off tonight!
Continuity breeds success for Angels
Yeah, it's primarily an Angels article, but it brings up an interesting point and the Rox are noted as retaining the 3rd most players. Basically shows that by keeping the same core of players around, you have greater chance for success.
Corpas Having Surgery
Bone chips did him in, might be back in September.
Maybe Herges will be brought up to replace him?
Marquis Start Delayed
So much for that Cain vs. Marquis showdown on Friday.
Hopefully the Giants continue to crumble, and the Rox finish out the homestand strong.
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