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Jorge Campillo, the Braves pitcher this afternoon is showing signs of following in the footsteps of Smoltz and Maddux. He posts good strike out numbers with great control. The only negative about him long term is that he just turned 30 last week.
Chico Harlan rounds up the progress of the Nationals signed draft picks. So far, sixth round pick Paul Demny, a right-handed pitcher, is off to the best start.
The Phillies are looking to bring Pedro Feliz off the disabled list on Wednesday. Phillies third basemen hit .188 with a .300 slugging percentage in his absence.
FishStripes notes a lack of hustle on the Marlins. Up north, Joe Maddon benched B.J. Upton for not running out a double play ball. Will Freddi Gonzalez take the same action against Hanley Ramirez?
Correction: Fixed names.
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It’s Jorge Campillo. Is fact checking that hard?
Can we cool it with the Smoltz and Maddux comparisons? The guy is a journeyman bum having a fluky good year, nothing more nothing less.
Yeah, I was really laughing at the “he just turned 30″ part. So, in other words, not following in the foot steps of Maddux and Smoltz at all.
I think what he means is that he is a Brave at the age of 30.
The only real difference is that Smoltz won his Cy Young the year before he turned 30, and Maddux won his fourth Cy Young in a row the year before turning 30, while Jorge Campillo gave up 10 runs in 13 innings the year before turning 30.
To add, does anyone in Atlanta, or the media in general, remember Maddux was not a product of the Braves system?
I tell you what though, Jo-Jo Reyes is like a young Derek Lilliquist.
Are you referring to an isolated incident regarding Hanley, or several incidents?
Also, he spells his name “Fredi,” not “Freddy.”
I’m not sure what that guy is referring too, but I watched a little bit of the Marlins/Cubs game yesterday. Hanley Ramirez hit a ball off that big wall in left field and he stood in the box and watched it because he thought it was a HR. He managed to get a double out of it, but only because the 2b man put a bad tag on him (back foot).
When I saw the play I actually said out loud “he should be benched”. The Marlins announcers even yelled about it and made a big deal that he didn’t hustle.
Thanks, I appreciate it, I couldn’t click on the Marlins blog link because it’s blocked at work.
I don’t like Hanley. Never have. He rubs me the wrong way, like he thinks his stuff don’t stink. Very good player, but he’s got a bad attitude.
Impressive that the Marlins announcers were up in arms about that play, considering how terrible they are.
I was pretty surprised too. I personally think the Marlins announcers are the worst, and they are absolutely huge homers. So to hear them really kill their boy like that, you can get an idea of how out of line he was.
BTW, I agree with you on Hanley. He’s a special player, but he does have a very arrogant way about him.
I didn’t know Jorge Campillo was on his way to the Hall of Fame.
I think he’s almost as good as Jorge (apparently also Jose) Sosa.
I’ve been confused about these “Today, in the NL East” posts. They are basically a link to another blog that links to other blogs?
I’ve yet to click on “Baseball Musings” because I’m not that confident in any blog that compares Jorge Campillo with future hall of famers John Smoltz and Greg Maddux.
I don’t know, but if he’s making multiple mistakes in a few paragraphs, I have no desire to read an entire website of his.
I have been reading Baseball Musings since before I even read Metsblog, and Pinto is very good. In a way he’s sort of the Instapundit of basbeall blogging, linking to a lot of other information, but also providing a lot of good original work.
I wouldn’t dismiss a guy because of a few grammatical mistakes. Hey, look at some of what Matt writes.
I just find it odd that this blog links to that blog which links to other blogs. It almost seems a bit lazy. Didn’t they used to write up an around the league themselves here?
He makes a grammar mistake in the title! I don’t ask for much.
my longer reply got deleted, but the bottom line is: I really don’t want to be the grammar police, but the willful refusal to factcheck, spellcheck, or check just about anything on this site has gotten pathetic.
Jorge Campillo’s line today:
Loss, 6.2 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 HR
This was to the Giants. A team that would have Luis Castillo hitting clean up.
Speaking of Maddix…he’s headed back to LA. Frankly I’m losing track of “where in SoCal is Greg Maddux!”
Pummeling Maddux in Game 3 of the 2006 NLDS was the most underrated pleasure of that run, btw.
GOOD call.
jorge campillo is having one of those year that can be comparable to what jorge sosa did with the braves. for some reason he is one of those journey men that once he puts on a braves uniform, he is all of a sudden a cy young against the mets.
the mets needs to go at least 5-2 against both the braves and the astros on this upcoming home stand. this mets team needs to give them some pay back. anything less than 5-2 is unacceptable.
so maddux is heading back to LA. in an important game, maddux will take himself out after say 80 pitches like usual and let the bullpen implode.
The Braves have a lot of guy’s with potential youth, but a lot of it gets compromised by injuries, there unwillingness to pay out and some of their guy’s just haven’t developed. It’s hard to compare a trio to anyone similar to Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz. If they weren’t hurt as much as they were, they’d be a better team.
With Greg Maddux, I wouldn’t worry too much. The Dodgers got a decent pitcher in him for the rest of the year because of his desire to only play in southern California. Marlon Anderson predicted 92 wins would do it to win the NL East. The Mets got 68 wins with 37 games to go and are 1 1/2 ahead of Philadelphia. 24 win’s probably won’t be the magic number. Probably a little less. This team’s got to keep it rolling against these crappy-to-mediocre teams that are coming up. Unlike earlier in the year with Willie the brain, I’m pretty confident.
Wow. I had a bad day there. Thanks for the constructive criticism!
You took it like a champ. ;)