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Offline Cubs trolls at the 22 May 09 Brewers-Twins game flying the M flag after a Brewers loss. At...

morineko — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:24:31 -0000

Offline Cubs trolls at the 22 May 09 Brewers-Twins game flying the M flag after a Brewers loss. At the time, the Cubs were down a run to the Padres, BTW.

St. Paul Pioneer Press article on Corey Koskie

morineko — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:59:43 -0000

St. Paul Pioneer Press article on Corey Koskie

Koskie is a Cub now, but the article is definitely relevant to the Brewers as Koskie is not pleased at all with the team's treatment of his post-concussion syndrome.

Weeks, Hardy likely to bat 1-2

morineko — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:50:34 -0000

Weeks, Hardy likely to bat 1-2

Well, at least Macha got the part about Weeks leading off right.

McClung's split indoor/outdoor, not home/away?

morineko — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:52:18 -0000

I was thinking about the proposed home/away pitching platoon involving Seth McClung and Dave Bush. The Bush splits were already well-accounted for by dixieflatline in his post. I don't have the same nifty data analysis tools or the knowledge to work up McClung's away splits in the same method, but I did go over to Baseball Reference to check one of my hunches out. I think I may be correct, because...

...it's not that McClung is awful at home so much as he's not as good indoors as out. (Note: the Miller Park roof was not opened until the end of May in 2008.)

Outdoors, his WHIP is 1.31; indoors, it's 1.45. The big difference is in OPS, with .648 outdoors and .823 indoors.

I'm also wondering about games he's pitched in where the roof has opened and closed during the game. I recall the roof was opened and shut several times during his 6/21 start against Baltimore, but he started 4 other times in parks with retractable roofs and I can't find any data on roof openings in those.