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Greene's success a product of recent player development changesPosted by: | Comments
Since joining the rotation a little more than a month ago, Shane Greene has been arguably the Yankees' best starting pitcher. The rookie right-hander has a 2.93 ERA (3.25 FIP) with good strikeout (21.4%) and excellent ground ball (55.3%) rates in seven starts and 43 innings, and he's shown no signs of slowing down either. He's made it very easy to forget his ugly five batter, three walk MLB debut out of the bullpen back in April.
The Yankees called on Greene last month because they really had no other choice. CC Sabathia, Ivan Nova, and Michael Pineda were all hurt and Chase Whitley was crashing back to Earth. That was before Masahiro Tanaka went down too. Greene had mediocre Triple-A numbers overall (4.61 ERA and 3.41 FIP) but he had strung together a few strong starts, which was enough to get him a shot given the state of the rotation. He's obviously taken advantage of the opportunity.
Greene's path to the big leagues and pro ball in general was a rather unique, which makes his story and success that much more interesting and amazing. I'm going to save some time and quote myself from last winter's prospect profile:
Greene was a mop-up man [at the University of West Florida] as a freshman … He blew out his elbow late in the season and had Tommy John surgery in May 2008 … The Argos took his scholarship away following the injury, so Greene transferred to Daytona Beach Community College. He didn't pitch as a sophomore and wasn't on the draft radar at all. Greene was throwing a bullpen session at his high school when he asked a Yankees scout (who was there to see someone else) to watch him throw and put in a good word with the University of Central Florida. The team ended up bringing him to Tampa for a workout three weeks before the 2009 draft … The Yankees liked what they saw during the workout enough to select him in the 15th round (465th overall) even though he had not pitched in an actual game in over a year.
Even if he crashes back to Earth in his next start or never throws another MLB pitch for whatever reason, the Yankees have already gotten a huge return on their investment in Greene. We're talking about a late round pick who signed for only $100k, a relative pittance. Just getting a guy like that to the show — especially after drafting him even though he hadn't pitched in a real game in a year due to injury — is a huge success.
Greene's climb up the minor league ladder was not fast. He spent parts of two seasons with both Low-A Charleston and High-A Tampa, and it wasn't until his sixth pro season that he reached Triple-A despite being a college draftee. Greene's stuff improved as he got further away from elbow reconstruction but a general lack of control held him back. He had a 4.4 BB/9 (10.4 BB%) across two Single-A levels in 2011, then a 5.1 BB/9 (12.5 BB%) at High-A in 2012. Greene looked like a classic big arm, small command guy.
Then, last season, the now 25-year old Greene broke out with a 1.7 BB/9 (4.5 BB%) split between High-A and Double-A. Forget about cutting his walk rate in half, he cut it by almost two-thirds in an offseason. This year Greene has a 3.5 BB/9 (8.8 BB%) in Triple-A and a 2.9 BB/9 (7.7 BB%) in MLB. (The AL average is 2.9 BB/9 and 7.7 BB% this year, coincidentally.) That's not as good as last year but it's a major improvement from two or three years ago. That ability to harness his stuff and throw consistent strikes has taken Greene from interesting prospect to bonafide MLB rotation member.
There is no "the light bulb just came on" story here. Greene didn't magically wake up one day with the ability to throw strikes with his mid-90s sinker and upper-80s slider. He cut his walk rate so much last year thanks to mechanical tweaks implemented by some of the Yankees' minor league pitching gurus. George King (subs. req'd) explained last September:
Greene, 24, is armed with a 90-94 mph fastball, but it was an adjustment he made working with pitching coordinator Gil Patterson and Greg Pavlick, a senior pitching instructor, that helped him turn the corner.
"He was helped with the delivery where he kept his head more in line with the plate," (VP of Baseball Ops Mark) Newman said. "He made a commitment to throw strikes and not throw the ball to the edge and nibble."
Pavlick has been with the Yankees for more than a decade now, but Patterson is a relatively new hire. Well, a new old hire. He coached in the team's minor league system from 2005-07 before leaving in 2008 for a similar position with the Athletics. The Yankees brought the very highly-regarded Patterson back and hired him away from Oakland in November 2012.
The club has gotten a lot of heat for their unproductive farm system over the last year or so, so much so that they essentially audited their staff and policies and implemented some procedural changes over the winter. In reality, the changes started both with the re-hiring of Patterson as well as the firing of long-time pitching honcho Billy Connors in September 2012. No personnel changes were made last winter, but two pretty big ones were made the year before.
There is no possible way of knowing how Greene would have developed without the help of Patterson (and Pavlick) — would he have made those same mechanical adjustments and improved his command anyway? Would he have never figured it out? Would he have done something else entirely and become even better than he is right now? We'll never know. The timeline fits so wonderfully though. The Yankees bring back Patterson, he tinkers with the live-armed Greene, and suddenly he throws strikes and is awesome. It's a great story, especially if it's actually true.
Many fans, myself included, were underwhelmed and unhappy when the Yankees announced they were only making procedural changes to their player development system over the winter. After all, we don't know what those changes are and we can't actually see him at work, so they don't really exist to us. The Patterson move flew mostly under the radar for the same reason: we don't actually see him at work. That doesn't mean he doesn't have an impact though. He helped Greene clean up his delivery and get over some serious control problems, which has turned him into an important member of the MLB rotation. Every time he takes the mound, it is the organization's recent player development changes at work.
Pineda's return is more important for 2015 than 2014Posted by: | Comments
The silver lining to last night's loss to the Orioles was the return of Michael Pineda, who looked like the April version of himself in his first start off the disabled list. At least until he ran out of gas in the fifth inning, though that had more to do with making only two rehab starts and not getting full stretched out than anything. Pineda was nails in the first four innings, locating his fastball to both sides of his plate and throwing his slider for both called strikes and off the plate for swings and misses.
The Yankees are still kinda sorta in the race for the postseason spot — a wildcard spot, to be specific — and the Pineda we saw last night will be a huge help the rest of the way, assuming he gets fully stretched out in time. The patchwork rotation really has done an admirable job of keeping the team alive, but the Yankees have not had a starter who can go out and shut another team down every fifth day since Masahiro Tanaka got hurt. Pineda is that type of pitcher.
Getting Pineda back will help improve their slim postseason chances (7.6% according to Baseball Prospectus), but, more importantly, it gives the Yankees a chance to evaluate the right-hander heading into next season. The 2015 rotation is completely up in the air at this point thanks to the Tanaka and CC Sabathia injuries. Even if those two get healthy in time for Spring Training, there really is no way of knowing what they can provide next year. Ivan Nova will also be out until at least late-April/early-May following Tommy John surgery, if not longer.
That all makes Pineda ian integral part of the Yankees going forward despite his lack of health these last few years. In a perfect world someone like Pineda, a super talented reclamation project/lottery ticket pitcher with injury problems, would be a guy you want to fill out the back of the rotation. Not someone you have to count on. But, unless the Yankees are planning to spend huge in free agency (Jon Lester and/or Max Scherzer?) or making some big trades (Cole Hamels and/or Ian Kennedy?), that's exactly what Pineda will be.
These next six weeks or so will finally give the Yankees a chance to see what Pineda can do as a member of their rotation making a regular start. At least hopefully. We have no real reason to expect him to stay healthy other than blind faith at this point. Hopefully he stays healthy, takes the ball every fifth day, impresses, and leaves everyone feeling good going into 2015. If Pineda can help the Yankees get into the postseason along the way, even better. Falling short of Octboer would not be unexpected though.
On a personal level, I feel Pineda Fatigue™ starting to set in. I'm getting tired of waiting for this guy to get healthy and contribute. This is his third year in pinstripes already, and he's made five starts. I understand that pitchers get hurt and he had major shoulder surgery, but at some point you're either part of the problem or part of the solution, and we still don't know where Pineda falls. He's looked great when he's actually on the mound, no doubt about it. But he's no good to the team if he continues to get hurt constantly. Seeing him stay on the field the rest of the season would be a refreshing change.
Outside of getting Tanaka back in September, the best thing for the future of the Yankees would be Pineda staying healthy and showing he can be an effective starter these next few weeks. He's a potential impact player, something the team lacks at the upper levels of the minors. They just don't know if he can stay healthy over the course of a full season yet. Well, no, they know he can't. Nevermind. These next few weeks will show if Pineda can stay healthy for even six weeks at a time, and whether there is any reason to be optimistic about him being a member of the 2015 rotation.
Michael Pineda to return to rotation on WednesdayPosted by: | Comments
Michael Pineda will be activated off the disabled list and return to the rotation on Wednesday, the Yankees announced. That's what I was hoping for. Esmil Rogers will presumably move back into the bullpen after making a spot start last Friday.
Pineda, who has only made four starts this year, has been out since late-April with a muscle problem in his back/shoulder. If he pitches anything like he did earlier in the year (1.83 ERA and 2.73 FIP), he'll be an enormous shot in the arm for the rotation and team in general.
Stretched out or not, time for the Yankees to bring back PinedaPosted by: | Comments
At some point in the next day or two, the Yankees will officially announce whether Esmil Rogers or Michael Pineda will start Wednesday's series finale against the Orioles. Rogers pitched very well in a spot start on Friday, giving the team five innings of one-run ball on a limited pitch count, but it's obvious he's just keeping the spot warm for Pineda, who made his second minor league rehab start that same night. He threw 72 pitches in that rehab game.
"We haven't made a decision. A lot depends on what happens the next few days," said Joe Girardi to Dan Martin when asked about Pineda possibly rejoining the rotation this week. "Ideally you'd like to get him to 90 pitches … We'll talk to the people who saw him and decide what's next. You have to make sure the player is ready."
Naturally, Pineda feels ready to come off the disabled list because just about every player thinks they're healthy and ready to return to the team after a rehab outing or two. "Everything is there. The velocity is there. I'm feeling good. I'm happy with that," he said to Brian Heyman the other day. Pineda has allowed one run on nine hits and one walk in 7.2 rehab innings, striking out eleven, so statistically the rehab assignment has gone well.
Girardi indicated the decision to bring Pineda back could depend as much on the shape of the bullpen as it does how he feels. The Yankees aren't getting much length out of their starters in general and Rogers could be used in long relief as soon as Tuesday, according to the skipper. "The bullpen has been used a lot. Sometimes plans change," said Girardi to Martin. If Rogers is needed to bail out Shane Greene tomorrow, Pineda would start Wednesday by default.
At this point though, I think it's time for the Yankees to bring Pineda back regardless of his pitch count in his most recent rehab start. If the team doesn't feel he is where he needs to be with his pitches, that his fastball command isn't all the way back or he doesn't have feel for his slider yet, that's different. Pineda can't be effective without fastball command or feel of his slider. If he needs another rehab start to get that stuff back, so be it. Then he'll have to make another start with Triple-A Scranton.
But, if we're talking only about a matter of pitch count, being stretched out to throw 85 pitches vs. 100 pitches, then I don't think there's much to consider here. In that case the Yankees should absolutely bring Pineda back this week, upgrade their rotation, and simply keep an eye on his pitch count until he is fully stretched out. Rogers did very well in his spot start but nothing in his track record suggests we should expect more of the same going forward. Pineda limited to 85 pitches or whatever is still better than maybe any other pitcher on the staff at this point. It's not like he threw 45 pitches last time out. He's stretched out enough to give the team the same five innings as Rogers.
The Yankees head into this series with the Orioles six games back in the AL East, though they are only 2.5 games back of the second wildcard spot. The division isn't completely off the table at this point but it sure does seem like a long shot. The wildcard is still very much up for grabs though, there's just a ton of competition. The Blue Jays, Royals, and Mariners are all right there with the Yankees, so every little upgrade is huge. Brian Cashman's been talking about incremental upgrades these last few weeks, and, well, Pineda is an upgrade over Rogers, even if he's only out there for 85 pitches on Wednesday.
Update: Esmil Rogers to start Friday, Bryan Mitchell being called upPosted by: | Comments
6:02pm: Ken Rosenthal says Bryan Mitchell has been scratched from tonight's scheduled start for Triple-A Scranton and will join the big league team tomorrow. I wonder why aren't just starting him instead of Rogers. Whatever. I assume Matt Daley will go down in a corresponding move.
5:48pm: As expected, the Yankees will start right-hander Esmil Rogers against the Indians tomorrow night, the team announced. That is David Phelps' spot. The Yankees were waiting to see how much they would need their bullpen these last two days before announcing a starter. Rogers has made two scoreless relief appearances for the Bombers since being claimed off waivers last week. He was working as a starter in Triple-A for the Blue Jays and is stretched out.
Phelps' injury should push Yankees back into the trade marketPosted by: | Comments
With David Phelps hitting the disabled list yesterday, you can make a pretty strong argument the five best starting pitchers in the Yankees organization are out with injuries. Phelps (elbow) joins Masahiro Tanaka (elbow), CC Sabathia (knee), Ivan Nova (elbow), and Michael Pineda (shoulder) on the shelf, which is a nice little staff. It's remarkable the Yankees are still even remotely in the hunt for a postseason spot with all those guys out.
As of right now, the current rotation is Hiroki Kuroda, Brandon McCarthy, Chris Capuano, Shane Greene, and TBA. Esmil Rogers seems likely to replace Phelps in the rotation, at least until Pineda returns. Pineda made his first rehab start over the weekend, and, from the sound of it, he'll make two more before rejoining the team. His return is far from a sure thing, of course. He's already suffered one setback this summer and his rehab from surgery took much longer than expected. Still, Pineda is by far the team's best hope for pitching help from within in the near future.
The Yankees know for certain Sabathia and Nova are not coming back this year following surgery. Pineda might be ten days away and, if everything goes right, Tanaka will be back in September. He played catch yesterday for the first time since getting hurt — the clip they aired during last night's game showed he was basically lobbing the ball, a nice reminder of how far away he really is — and still has a long way to go before returning to the rotation. Bryan Mitchell, Chris Leroux, and Bruce Billings are stashed in Triple-A, but none sound particularly appealing.
The trade deadline brought the Yankees upgrades at second base and in right field even though just about every rumor connected them to some kind of pitching. Starters and relievers. They added McCarthy a few weeks ago and continue to pick through the scrap heap with guys like Capuano and Rogers, but that's it. July 31st is not a hard trade deadline, however, so the Yankees still have an opportunity to add an arm or three through a waiver deal this month as teams fall out of the race. Some teams will inevitably look to shed some salary in the coming weeks. Happens every year.
Before Phelps got hurt, Capuano was the obvious one to go whenever the team acquired another starter. He's done an admirable job in his two starts but he always seems to be walking a tightrope, and at some point he'll slip up. The Yankees want to be find an alternative before that happens. But, now that Phelps is hurt though, Capuano is only second in line to be replaced behind the TBA pitcher, Rogers or whoever. They can barely keep their head above water with all these pitching injuries. Just when you think they're ready to upgrade one spot, someone else goes down.
The rotation is averaging only 5.2 innings per start since the All-Star break and only once have the Yankees gotten seven full innings from a starter in the second half — Kuroda's outing in Texas last week. Heck, on only three other occasions did they have a starter record even one out in the seventh since the Midsummer Classic I'm usually anti-eight-man bullpen, but the Yankees absolutely need one right now. It's a necessity, not overkill. The starters aren't giving the team length and someone has to get those outs. It can't be the same guys every night.
Of course the Yankees have remained on the lookout for pitching this month and will continue to do so. The injury to Phelps increases the urgency for another arm — hard to believe that's really possible at this point, they've been desperate for an arm for weeks now — and could force the team to be a little more aggressive in trade talks. Maybe that means being more willing to take on salary or give up a better quality prospect. Brian Cashman has shown he can find useful pieces at more than reasonable prices this summer and he has to do it again (and again?) to help the rotation.
Chris Capuano added to roster, will start tomorrowPosted by: | Comments
The Yankees have added Chris Capuano to the active roster and designated Chris Leroux for the assignment, the team announced. Capuano, who acquired in a minor trade with the Rockies yesterday, will start tomorrow's game. Shane Greene has been pushed back to Sunday and Chase Whitley is in the bullpen. The Yankees are still carrying eight relievers and three bench players, though I think that will change sometime soon. Jeff Francis' days may be numbered.
Yankees let McCarthy get back to being himself with the cutterPosted by: | Comments
When the Yankees swung what was essentially a minor trade to add Brandon McCarthy two weeks ago, it was easy to scoff at the deal. The big right-hander had a 5.01 ERA and a 1.23 HR/9 at the time of the trade, numbers that weren't any better than the 4.89 ERA and 1.59 HR/9 Nuno put up in his 14 starts, especially considering the difference in leagues. The Yankees desperately needed pitching and it appeared they acquired a band-aid, not a difference maker.
The 31-year-old McCarthy came with a track record though, something Nuno lacked. He pitched to a 3.29 ERA (3.22 FIP) with the Athletics from 2011-12, and while some of that is certainly related to pitching in the spacious O.co Coliseum, McCarthy also famously reinvented himself as a sinker-cutter pitcher after delving into sabermetrics. "I didn't want to suck anymore," he told Eddie Matz last April, so his focus shifted to limiting walks and keeping the ball on the ground. The cutter and sinker better allowed him to do that.
McCarthy signed a two-year contract worth $18M with the Diamondbacks during the 2012-13 offseason and, for whatever reason, Arizona asked him to shelve the cutter. This isn't completely unheard of, there are a few cutter averse teams out there (the Orioles took it away from top prospect Dylan Bundy even though it is his best pitch), but it is weird. "It wasn't something I totally agreed with," McCarthy told Josh Thomson over the weekend, but I guess if the employer tells the employee to do something, he does it. Here is his pitch selection over the last few years:
|Four-Seam + Changeup
|2011-12 with Athletics
|2013-14 with D'Backs
|2014 with Yankees
There was a definite change in pitch selection when McCarthy joined the Diamondbacks. He had almost a 50/50 split between the cutter and sinker while in Oakland but was throwing roughly twice as many sinkers as cutters in Arizona. Obviously his sample size with the Yankees is two starts and that's nothing, but it's worth noting he threw more cutters in those two starts (37 total) than he did in his final eight starts with the D'Backs combined (36). The pitch was nonexistent during the end of his tenure with Arizona.
"I feel like myself again. [The D'Backs] didn't want me throwing it any more. They wanted more sinkers away, but I feel like I need that pitch to be successful," said McCarthy to John Harper over the weekend. "The Yankees came to me right away and said, 'We need to bring the cutter back into play.' They obviously looked back and saw, 'when he's good he was throwing cutters. When he's not, he wasn't.' I was glad to hear it because I was going to tell them that anyway. It's been frustrating because I felt like I've been throwing better this season than any other year."
The Yankees had some insight into McCarthy before the trade even though he's never played with anyone on the current roster or under someone on the coaching staff. Minor league pitching coordinator Gil Patterson held the same role with the Athletics while McCarthy was there, and in fact he once told Susan Slusser that McCarthy's cutter grip was unlike anything he'd seen before. Patterson works with the team's pitching prospects but I'm sure he was consulted before the trade given their existing relationship. It'd be foolish not to ask his opinion.
McCarthy does not need the cutter to be a put-away pitch or any kind of dominant offering, it just has to be another option. Something to bust lefties inside and something to keep hitters off the sinker. A different look, basically. McCarthy does need the pitch to be more than an average at best pitcher though. He clearly believes that, if nothing else. The cutter gives him another weapon and it's hard to believe the D'Backs took it away from him in the first place. The Yankees are very smart to let McCarthy use his cut fastball and reintroducing that pitch might have landed them an above-average pitcher at a journeyman price.
Shane Greene and the staff of opportunityPosted by: | Comments
When the Yankees acquired Brandon McCarthy from the Diamondbacks yesterday, they threw their rotation temporarily out of whack. Nuno and McCarthy were not scheduled to start on the same day — Nuno was supposed to start tonight's series opener against the Indians while McCarthy lines up start tomorrow on normal rest — so the club has to dig up a spot starter. Not a huge deal, just something they have to deal with. (McCarthy will get an extra day of rest and make his Yankees debut on Wednesday, partly so Masahiro Tanaka can start as scheduled Tuesday and make two starts before the All-Star break.)
That spot start will go to right-hander Shane Greene, the Yankees announced. He will be on normal rest after last pitching for Triple-A Scranton on Wednesday. I assume Jim Miller will be dropped from the roster to clear a spot rather than Bruce Billings simply because Billings is stretched out and can go 100+ pitches if necessary. The bullpen is pretty taxed and keeping the extra long man around sure seems like a good idea.
Greene made his MLB debut earlier this season and it was a disaster — five batters faced, three walks, three unearned runs, one out — though that came after a few weeks of being jerked between the show and Triple-A. That appearance came on April 24th and up to that point he had thrown only thrown 2.2 innings and 52 pitches during the regular season. Add in the usual MLB debut jitters and it's easy to understand why he was wild.
That will not be the case tonight, at least hopefully not. Greene has been making a regular turn in the RailRiders rotation for weeks now, so he is fully stretched out and able to go through his usual routine. No irregular pitching schedule, no sitting in the bullpen for weeks on end, nothing like that. Greene's overall numbers in Triple-A are not all that good (4.61 ERA and 3.39 FIP) but he has been much better of late, allowing six earned runs (1.93 ERA) with a 23/10 K/BB in 28 innings across his last five starts.
If Greene can come up and give the Yankees the bare minimum quality start (three runs, six innings), I'll be thrilled. I'm sure the team would be as well, considering how things have been going for most of the rotation. Six innings from someone other than Tanaka feels like a minor miracle these days. The rotation after Greene is a little unsettled at the moment. Tanaka will start Tuesday and McCarthy on Wednesday, but Thursday's starter is officially listed as TBA. That's Chase Whitley's spot.
"Right now [Whitley will] be in the bullpen until we get this ironed out," said Joe Girardi to Chad Jennings following yesterday's game. "If we don't need him out of the bullpen, he could start again for us. A lot of this depends on tomorrow … Every opportunity is an opportunity to shine and get more opportunities."
If Whitley isn't need out of the bullpen these next few days, he'll make the start on Thursday. If they do need him, David Phelps would presumably move up and start Thursday on normal rest. Then they'd need a spot starter for Saturday (Hiroki Kuroda goes Friday), which could be Greene again. Point is, the bullpen is such a mess right now that Whitley could wind up pitching in relief at some point soon. I'm guessing that's something that wouldn't happen or even be considered if he hadn't gotten destroyed in his last three starts. If he was still pitching like he was a few weeks ago, he'd remain in the rotation no questions asked.
So now, even with McCarthy theoretically providing some stability in place of Nuno, the Yankees still have one questionable rotation spot in Whitley. The All-Star break is coming next week and that will give the team a much-needed chance to catch its collective breath and reset the staff, but beyond that the job should be considered up for grabs. If Greene pitches well tonight, he could very well assume that rotation spot with Whitley, the career reliever, remaining in the bullpen. Girardi said it himself: "every opportunity is an opportunity to shine and get more opportunities."
The benefit to keeping Greene in the rotation is potentially two-fold. One, it would improve the rotation compared to what Whitley has given them the last three times out. That's the only way Greene would remain in the rotation anyway, if he pitches well enough to get another chance. Two, Whitley has been a reliever his entire life, so it's a familiar role for him, plus now he's stretched out. He could step in and serve as another two or three-inning guy for the middle innings. That would be a huge improvement over the Miller/Jose Ramirez/Matt Daley revolving door we've seen lately.
The Yankees have taken some steps to shake up their roster over the last week or so, specifically replacing Yangervis Solarte, Alfonso Soriano, Ramirez, and Nuno with McCarthy, Miller, Billings, and Zelous Wheeler. The Miller and Billings moves are only temporary, plus the team will need to call up another position player to replace Soriano in the coming days, so the shakeup isn't complete. Outside of a handful of spots at the top of the rotation and in the back of the bullpen, the current pitching staff is full of opportunity. If you pitch well, you'll get a chance to remain with the team and play a role. Whitley has done it already and now it's Greene turn to try to carve out a niche for himself.
Whitley's workload may be an issue in the second halfPosted by: | Comments
Prior to last night's drubbing at the hands of the Blue Jays, Chase Whitley had been a pleasantly surprising contributor in the wake of the rotation injuries. He rarely took the ball deep into games, but he went into Monday night with a 2.56 ERA (2.70 FIP) in 38.2 innings across seven starts. That's really good. That he got roughed up so much in Toronto and still owns a solid 4.07 ERA (3.16 FIP) in 42 innings tells you how good he was before last night.
Whitley, of course, did not become a full-time starter until the very end of last season, when he made a handful of spot starts for Triple-A Scranton. Last night was his 22nd career professional start since being drafted in 2010. That's all. This guy was a third baseman for most of his college career and a full-time reliever in the minors as recently as ten months ago, which makes his pre-Monday success as an MLB rotation member that much more impressive.
Therein lies something of a problem. Because Whitely has been a reliever for most of his life, he has never spent a full season as a starter and dealt with that type of workload before. The season is not even halfway over and Whitely is already rapidly approaching his career-high in innings pitched. Here is his career innings breakdown:
|16.2 (Az Fall League)
|66 (college)
Whitely has already thrown more innings this year than last year, mostly because he spent the first seven weeks of 2013 on the disabled list with an oblique problem. He'll probably surpass his 2012 innings total before the All-Star break and his career-high innings total — which was set three years ago now — either late next month or in early August, barring injury or something.
I'm sure you're all familiar with the "Verducci Effect" and the concept of controlling a young pitcher's workload in an effort to reduce future injury risk. It's common sense and teams do it every single year. The idea of a 30-inning year-to-year increase being the magic number is a little outdated, but there is definitely a point when a workload increase becomes too much. That usually applies to pitchers younger than Whitley, who turned 25 less than two weeks ago.
Because he was not a top prospect — remember, Whitley went undrafted in the Rule 5 Draft just last December — and there is a pretty strong likelihood he is currently enjoying the best stretch of his career, I'm not concerned about monitoring Whitley's workload to reduce future injury risk. That's not to say the Yankees should run him into the ground, they do still have a responsibility to try to keep him healthy, but he isn't as much of a priority as someone like, say, Ian Clarkin or Luis Severino. That's just baseball.
My biggest worry about Whitley's workload is plain ol' fatigue. He might just run out of gas sometime in the second half, when he approaches 130 or 140 or 150 or whatever number of innings. We don't know when or even if it will happen. But, just looking at him as a guy who has thrown more than 100 innings in a season twice in his life, it's not unreasonable to think he'll hit a wall at some point. Whitley's never started for an extended period of time before and he's about to enter uncharted workload waters.
In a perfect world, the Yankees would use off-days to skip Whitley's starts (or at least push them back a few days) whenever possible to help keep him fresh. They could call up a sixth starter for the day and skip one of his starts that way. They could even give him a little two-week vacation on the disabled list; that's another way they could control his innings and try to keep him fresh later in the season. The Yankees can't do any of that though because they're stretched so thin for pitching. They don't have that sixth starter to call-up and they need to use off-days to give their other pitchers an extra day whenever possible as well.
CC Sabathia will face hitters in a live batting practice session today and is expected to pitch in a minor league rehab game this weekend, but he is still several weeks away. Michael Pineda can't even get healthy enough to play catch these days, so the Yankees should just forget about him. If he manages to get healthy and pitch at some point, wonderful. But don't count on him. A trade? That seems inevitable, but it doesn't seem like it will happen anytime soon. Once it does happen, Vidal Nuno (the obvious candidate to lose his rotation spot) can be used as a spot starter to give Whitley occasional rest.
Right now, Whitley is pitching well as a starter and the Yankees should ride that out as long as possible. He's a young guy and he's big and strong (listed at 6-foot-3 and 215 lbs.), plus he has what looks like a relatively low-effort delivery to me, so maybe he'll be able to hold up deep into the season. That would be awesome. Whitley is at risk of hitting a wall in the second half though, only because he has never really started before and his workload is going to be pushed far behind his previous limits. It's just another reason the Yankees need to add a starter and soon.


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Jezebelle is a Volks Souseiseki and does not belong to me!
Almost all of my dolls embody characters I've written about or participated in roleplays as. Here's a little bit about Theron as a character:
Theron Ulondarr is the result of an experiment performed by an elf scientist and an elf mage in an attempt to create the perfect supersoldier. He is a mixture of human, elf, and demon genes, giving him the physical strength of a demon, the magical prowess of an elf, and the appearance (mostly) of a human. When first created, he did not have a soul, and so the elf mage stole one for him. As a result he now shares his mind and body with a young man named Zeke, able to switch freely between personalities.
Although he appears in his 20's, he is actually only five years old. Theron loves comic books and his favorite character is Batman; he doesn't really want to fight for the elf monarchy, he just wants to write and draw comic books.
Theron Ulondarr - Dollmore Film Noir Lawrence
I don't tend to talk much about my dolls, just put their name and sculpt on the photo and be done with it.
I'm going to try to take fresh portraits of each of my crew and add a bit about them. I don't know how long it will take, so for Theron I will use what I have on hand. This September, he'll have been with me for two years. He was not technically my first doll - I got my Puki before him. Going from a tiny Puki to a 70cm Model Doll was interesting! Nonetheless, it was love at first sight.
Being that he was my first SD sized doll, first whiteskin, first limited, first lots of things… I was, of course, a huge n00b. He's been through a lot because of my own lack of knowledge about dolls and I admit I didn't take as good care of him as I should have. Even through all that, he has been loved. I did not leave him on my dresser out of neglect or not caring, I left him sitting there so every morning I would wake up and see him, be able to walk over and talk to and hold him. I wanted him in my sight and easily accessible at all times.
When I was going through rough times, he was my comfort doll. My security blanket. I held him and cried into his wig, stroking it and cuddling him to calm down. I still sometimes take him out just to hold him and have him near me. I know he looks frightening, but I've never cared. He's beautiful to me and close to my heart.
I have my favorites in my collection. I have dolls that I consider rare, beautiful, unique, special.
None of them will replace Theron in my heart. He was my "first" in a lot of regards and he will always be my dearest.
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some photos from the "Seesaw Sway" video shoot in Los Angeles, California last June.
These photos were posted yesterday and extracted from the official website of Peter Murphy on Facebook, I hope you like themas much as I ;-)
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On September 18, 2013, International Bancshares Corporation ("IBC") issued a news release announcing that on September 16, 2013, IBC's Board of Directors approved the declaration of a twenty three cents per share cash dividend for all holders of Common Stock, $1.00 par value, of record on September 30, 2013. The dividend will be payable on October 15, 2013. The dividend reflects an increase of 15 % per share over IBC's most recent cash dividend.
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An artist working with action, environment, video, image, text and sound.
An experimental sound/music maker.
Director and lead artist at The Penthouse- an artist led indeterminate place for experimentation.
Founder and Director of Manchester Artists Bonfire.
A member of band ILL
This is a place of miscellaneous nature and will act as an accompaniment to my live work and the activity that surrounds my practice .
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Live-fire training exercises at Camp Pendleton prompted Marine Corps officials on Wednesday to warn about increased noise levels coming from the base.
Artillery units will fire high-explosive munitions into two test impact areas on the base through Friday, according to Camp Pendleton public affairs.
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Drug to cure Alzheimer's comes step closer
In what could open a new chapter in the development of drugs for treating Alzheimer's disease, for which currently there is no cure, researchers have discovered a new therapeutic target for tackling memory impairment.
Reactive astrocytes (the most abundant cell type of the human brain), which have been commonly observed in Alzheimer's patients, aberrantly and abundantly produce the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and release it through the Bestrophin-1 channel to suppress normal information flow.
The released GABA strongly inhibits neighbouring neurons to cause impairment in synaptic transmission, plasticity and memory, the findings showed.
GABA plays a role in regulating neuronal excitability throughout the nervous system.
"From this study, we reveal the novel mechanism of how Alzheimer's patients might lose their memory," said C. Justin Lee from Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea.
"We also propose new therapeutic targets, which include GABA production and release mechanisms in reactive astrocytes for treatment of Alzheimer's disease," Lee added.
The researchers discovered that reactive astrocytes in the brains of Alzheimer's disease model mice produce the inhibitory transmitter GABA by the enzyme Monoamine oxidase B(MAO-B) and release GABA through the Bestrophin-1 channel to suppress normal information flow during synaptic transmission.
Based on this discovery, the team was able to reduce the production and release of GABA by inhibiting MAO-B or Bestrophin-1, and successfully ameliorate impairments in neuronal firing, synaptic transmission and memory in Alzheimer's disease model mice.
The team demonstrated that treating these mice with modelled Alzheimer's disease with a MAO-B inhibitor fully recovered the mice's memory.
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Hallo, mein Name ist Jens und dieses Blog ist zum Scheitern verurteilt. Ich schreibe über alles, was mich bewegt.
Ort: Berlin, eine Metropole
Zeit: Gegenwart
Very happy to announce that Ricki, Ole & I founded a company together.
We architect and build iOS applications for iPhone & iPad and create interfaces as well as sophisticated prototypes from scratch on a consultancy basis. We believe the faster you get something working and delightful in your hands, the better the final product will be.Learn more on http://youandthegang.com
I started a new pet project.
Often times I find myself paying bills for services and domains I don't use anymore because I am not aware of them. Money that I'd rather save, or donate.
I started a new blog called !pow because input is as important as output and who says you can't have both at the same time?
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You can be very lonely with your actions at times.
You make decisions and you always expect an immediate outcome. Most of the time there won't be. Nothing and nobody validates your doing. Do you keep walking or do you stop? Maybe one day you read a sentence, a tweet, meet that someone that makes sense of your actions.
This requires patience. As long as you cannot bring up that patience, you will look for immediate validation. You will look for challenges that guarantee fast results, and it does not matter if these are good or bad. You jump from stone to stone, you get nudged in a direction and it does not allow for making up your own mind easily. You are not alone though.
If you mark your own way, jump your own stones, maybe skip a few, you can be very lonely with your opinions at times. Will you stick to your approach or give up? Is it worth it? Often times you can't sleep properly for days, wrestling your thoughts. They will get up again, and you will wrestle them again. One day it makes click and it either validates your thinking and doing or it won't. And both is good because you found out yourself, on your own path. And you made other decisions based on that, which lead to other conclusions some people will never come about.
Validation is a dangerous drug. It can slow you down, keep you on the short leash. And it's so, so tempting. Validation makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Praise, press, likes and all that sweet stuff.
To the next five years of working/playing with and learning from good people! Thanks to everyone.
Possibility, opportunity, chance, uncertainty, variables, instability, imbalance, ignorance, rush, fallacy, miss, finding/searching/poking, Tetris.
A year ago my dad and best friend moved to a place both very far away and closer to my heart than ever before. The reception is bad, I can hardly tell if he can hear me at all, but I just keep speaking and asking questions. Hoping that he will listen.
Some messages might take some time to arrive, so the answers.
Many questions have been answered over the course of a couple of weeks, some have been unanswered. It takes patience and focus to catch the messages through all that everyday noise. Sometimes I only catch a piece and fill out the blanks.
Some messages are words, some are clouds, some are sounds, some are people. Some are hard to read and need time to develop.
I keep them all and pass them on, because that is the least I can do.
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kevindnl1 2 years ago
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Just lovely...you have no idea what i would do with that.
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Esto es un verdadero culazo....
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thats a fuckin nice ass...i want some of it!!!
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When i get my motobike i will drive over for the weekend :P
Dude, I'm IN London and I want to go to London. I'm leaving in a month and a half and it's already at the top of my list of places to go to. Wtf.
Please take me there?
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B·∫°n c·∫ßn có th∆∞ m·ªùi t·ª´ phía Canada tr∆∞·ªõc khi n·ªôp ƒë∆°n xin ƒëi du l·ªãch và b·∫°n có th·ªÉ xem m·∫´u sau ho·∫∑c liên h·ªá v·ªõi chúng tôi ƒë·ªÉ giúp so·∫°n m·∫´u th∆∞ m·ªùi khác d·ª±a trên các thông tin mà b·∫°n cung c·∫•p.
M·∫´u th∆∞ m·ªùi ƒëi du l·ªãch - thƒÉm thân
I, the undersigned, <sponsor's name>, Mrs. NGUYEN VAN X, domiciled and residing at <civic number and street name>, in the city of Laval, province of Quebec, Canada, solemnly declare that:
1. My date of birth was:
2. My place of birth was:
3. My residency status in Canada is: Canadian citizenship <or permanent resident>.
4. My current marital status is: Married <or single or divorced or widowed>.
5. I make this statutory declaration in order to invite my brother to Canada.
6. My brother's name is <sponsored's name>.
7. My brother, born on <date of birth>, in <place of birth>, Vietnam, is now living at the following address:
123 Tran Van Dang street, Ward 04, 04 District, Ho Chi Minh city,
8. I will support my brother financially and materially and provide him with accommodation and food during his stay in Canada.
9. I pledge myself that my brother will return to Vietnam after his visit to Canada.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have signed in Montreal, on this twenty-sixth day of April, 2007.
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Thank you for your request for an invitation to attended __________name of show___, to be held at ___location____-, from ___dates___. We are pleased to welcome your attendance at our event. For assistance in registration, housing, or additional information on the event you may wish to contact the Commercial Section of the Canadian Embassy or General Consulate in your country.
You must be aware that in order to visit the Canada, you will need to obtain a visa for this purpose. The attached materials identify how you apply for a visa. We encourage you to contact the Consular Section of the Embassy or Consulate near your location to determine how to apply, and the likely time required for that process of visa issuance to be accomplished. Our ___trade show/association__ has no influence over the issue of a visa. We suggest that you make application at least three months prior to the event to avoid disappointment.
When you travel to Canada, we suggest that upon entry you carry a copy of your planned itinerary including not only your visit to our trade event, but including any follow-on business or vacation plans you have. The Immigration and Naturalization Officer at your port of entry will determine the approved duration of your visit. It is therefore in your interest to let the officer know of your plan to seek approval for the full duration of your planned visit in Canada.
Should you wish additional background information on our event, you may wish to discuss the event with the Commercial staff of the Embassy or Consulate, or to browse our website.
We look forward to welcoming you at our show.
Sincerely yours,
Organizer Official
Signed and sealed.
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The XXX Corp is pleased to extend an Official Letter of Invitation to you to attend the 2008 Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems (SAGEEP) to be held March 29 - April 25, 2008 in Vancouver, BC, Canada
For the past 21 years XXX Corp has sponsored SAGEEP to bring together industry professionals from around the world to learn the latest applications and techniques to better serve the world we live in. The wide-ranging technical program includes hundreds of formal presentations by individual speakers, workshops and continuing education short courses. More than 40 companies will display their newest geophysical equipment and techniques in the accompanying exhibition.
We understand that you will bear all of the expenses related to your visit to Canada. Please apply the visa to Canadian Embassy or General Consulate in your country and confirm by return.
We look forward to your attendance at this important meeting.
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Grammar Review for Police Officer Exam Study Guide
The basis of everything you read and everything you will be asked to write is a complete sentence. A paragraph is a collection of complete sentences. Although many portions of police reports require you only to fill in or check boxes, almost all reports require some narrative. Narrative means you will be asked to write about what happened, what others did or said, and what action(s) you took. All this information must be in standard, proper English, with no slang or jargon (police-talk that others will not understand), and in complete sentences. Poorly written reports will most likely be sent back to you by a supervisor for you to rewrite. If you concentrate on what you want to say and then on how you want to say it, you are less likely to make the kinds of grammar and spelling errors that will cost you points on the exam and that will later cause you to have rewrite your work.
Sentence Fragments
You probably recall from high school or college English classes that the basis of a sentence is a subject and a verb that join together with other words to form one complete idea. A sentence fragment generally lacks a subject or a verb and does not contain a complete idea. Look at the following pairs of word groups. The first in each pair is a sentence fragment; the second is a complete sentence.
Many exams test your grasp of sentences by giving you four examples from which you will have to select the proper, complete sentence. To get you in the mindset for these questions, look at the word group pairs below and select the ones that are complete sentences.
- We saw the squad car approaching.
- When we saw the squad car approaching.
- Before the prison was built in 1972.
- The prison was built in 1972.
- Because we were on duty in the morning.
- We were on duty in the morning.
If you chose 1. a, 2. b, 3. b, you were correct. You might have noticed that the groups of words are the same, but the fragments have an extra word at the beginning. These words are called subordinating conjuctions. If a group of words that would normally be a complete sentence is preceded by a subordinating conjunction, something more is needed to complete the thought.
In the following three sentences, the thoughts have been completed.
- When we saw the squad car approaching, we flagged it down.
- Before the prison was built in 1972, the old jailhouse was demolished.
- Because we were on duty in the morning, we went to bed early.
Here is a list of words that are frequently used as subordinating conjunctions. Use each in a sentence to get a better idea of the rule. Be careful, though. Sometimes a group of words that begin with a subordinating conjunction can still be a complete sentence. You must read the entire sentence before deciding if it is correct or incorrect.
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- although
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Roca, Patron's New Tequila, Now Available in Miami
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Traditional Eats for the World Cup Semifinals
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Certain foreign foods adapt better to Americanization than others, just as certain sit-down dishes adapt better as street eats than others. Pizza, for instance, adapts both ways excellently when the adapted version is at its best, like good New York-style pizza by the slice. Sure, a typical N.Y. "vegetarian" slice loaded with most of the supermarket produce shelf is different than Italian pizza, the latter sporting suitably sparser toppings because of its far thinner crust, and, except in Rome and Milan, always sold by the whole pie and eaten sit-down style on a plate with a knife and fork. But if the N.Y. slice's crust is crisp and tasty enough, like a good sourdough roll, the Americanized overabundance of ingredients works well.
Crêpes? Well, crêpes in France are already sold in both sit-down and street snack forms, the latter usually just folded more, into quarters rather than served flat or folded in half as for a fork-eaten lunch. But CrêpeMaker's "hand held" creations go French streetcart crêpes one better. They are fatter, almost cone-shaped. This makes them a terrific concept for outdoor shopping/entertainment malls where -- the popularity of sit-down fast-food "food courts" notwithstanding -- what one really wants to do is munch while strolling and window shopping.
All-American ingredient overload, unfortunately, did not seem to work as well in a crêpe as on a pizza, at least not for me and my two co-taste testers. The Very Philly's marinated but pretty dry steak strips with sautéed onion, melted mozzarella cheese, portobello mushrooms, and caesar salad dressing did not taste like a Philly cheese steak sandwich; it tasted like too many ingredients -- namely the mushrooms and salad dressing -- for even a cheese steak's standard sub roll, much less for a delicate crêpe. And the Blue Cheese Vegi's combo of warmed apples coated in cinnamon and powdered sugar, allegedly melted blue cheese (actually little crumbles with little blue-veined flavor), walnuts, artichoke hearts, hearts of palm, "vine-ripe" (nah, as usual) tomatoes, fresh basil, and "Crêpemaker seasoning," which was understandably undiscernible in all the above, might have been too much for even a sturdy wooden salad bowl.
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Region: Coral Gables/South Miami
An Opulence (marinated chicken breast, artichoke hearts, hearts of palm, portobello mushrooms, and melted mozzarella) was a bit less overwhelming. But both the chicken breast and the artichoke/hearts of palm mix tasted packaged, as though they'd been originally prepared somewhere else, long ago and far away, and merely reheated and/or assembled on-site.
Despite a pesto sauce so mild that it had virtually no basil taste, much less garlic or pignolias, a Veri Vegi wasn't bad, with green peppers as well as the listed sweet red peppers, red onion, portobellos, and melted mozzarella. But the mozzarella, like that in the Very Philly, had obviously never seen Paree or Roma; it tasted like standard American supermarket stuff.
A Black and White that we tried for dessert, though, worked well after our rather pricey pick-me-up (most crêpes run $5 to $6). A combo of sliced bananas and Nutella chocolate/hazelnut spread enclosed in a crêpe that, for some reason, was made from batter before our eyes instead of flipped from a premade stack onto the grill to warm over, it was best because it was freshest and simplest.


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Where did Joe DiMaggio go? Paul Simon tells the story of "Mrs. Robinson"
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Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll: "Fever"
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Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll: "Stairway to Heaven"
Songs They Wish They'd Written with Ray Davies, Slash and St. Vincent
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I tend to do my "Walk the Walk" featured with lots of male models…I mean I enjoy looking at tons of male model photos, sorry! Although this isn't a "Male model" segment but a "all model" post which I must remember.
With this said let me introduce you to a kick ass model called Amira Ahmed.
She is half-Somali and half-Filipino. Born in Stockholm, the 22-year-old grew up on her stepfather's boat, where, she says "the sea became my playground." She lives here in New York City and has landed campaigns for Gap, AllSaints and L'Oreal. You can find her at New York Model Management.
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USC's football recruiting season is suddenly in full swing following this afternoon's commitment from four-star offensive lineman Chuma Edoga. The Georgia product made his decision known on Twitter, and naturally many more tweets reacted. Here's some of what you missed, if you weren't thumbing along on your phone.
— Chuma Veggies (@edogawd) April 22, 2014
The Tweet Formerly Known as Woof. RT @CoachSark: FIGHT ON! #turnupSC
— Reign of Troy (@ReignofTroy) April 22, 2014
Powder Springs (Ga.) offensive tackle Chuma Edoga has committed to USC. No. 3 nationally at his position. pic.twitter.com/TGdAJzSxet
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Chuma Edoga predicts #USC will have No. 1 recruiting class in 2015. If chips fall right, it could happen. You think?
— Adam Gorney (@adamgorney) April 22, 2014
Five-star OT Chuma Edoga from heart of SEC country in Georgia just committed to #USC.. Big pick up for Sarkisian & #Trojans.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) April 22, 2014
BREAKING: 5-Star offensive lineman Chuma Edoga has committed to #USC. Huge pickup for the Trojans. He plans to start recruiting others.
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Power move by mostly new USC staff pulling OL Chuma Edoga out of Ga. Our staff's top OL so far at all of the #NFTC stops
— Brian Stumpf (@Stumpf_Brian) April 22, 2014
I been knew Chuma committed to USC, I knew that weeks ago haha
— Mekhi Quintay Brown (@_MekhiBrown) April 22, 2014
Trojan fans are used to seeing top OL players come through, but that had died off for a while. Sark wasn't kidding about wanting power run
— Josh Webb (Twist) (@FightOnTwist) April 22, 2014
Really looking forward to seeing Chuma Edoga @edogawd for the first time live at the Rivals Five Star Challenge in Baltimore in June.
— Gerard Martinez (@gmartlive) April 22, 2014
Rivals analysts @rivalsmike and @JoshHelmholdt breakdown Chuma Edoga and what his commitment means to #USC: https://t.co/eyKYibdpDm
— Gerard Martinez (@gmartlive) April 22, 2014
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In today's NHL it's about showing your value, and the days of plus, minus may be fading away. Today the Corsi Number is getting more attention, and it could lead to a change in the box scores.
First let me introduce you to the man who brought the Corsi number to life. Jim Corsi was the Buffalo Sabres goaltending coach for 16 seasons. He played in the NHL with the Edmonton Oilers, but his NHL career was short-lived. Corsi did have a lengthy international career.
An advanced statistic in hockey that measures the shot attempt differential of a player while on the ice including shots on goal, missed shots and blocked shots for and against. Corsi captures the differential of shots directed towards the net as an indication of the player's ability to generate chances vs. giving up chances. [Sporting Charts]
The Corsi Number is basically a tool used to measure how productive a player is, it gives points for shots taken, and takes points away for shots taken at their goal. But it is much more than that. This stats is "new" it allows for factors to be considered, and teams are buying in.
While the Corsi Number was designed to help Sabres goaltenders see how much action they were facing it is not applied to teams and every player on the ice. This stats is designed to be positive, it is an indicator of effort as much as it is an indicator of your two-way play.
This stat is starting to gain popularity among player agents as well. Players like Alex Ovechkin who had a -35, but took 385 shots would most likely favor a Corsi Number. As this stat grows and more and more front office people take notice I think the plus minus box is going to be replaced by the Corsi Number.
For those hockey fans who say the Buffalo Sabres never gave the NHL anything this is proof that the Sabres gave the game something that may change the way we view players forever.
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While the world has never produced so much food, 842 million people are estimated to be suffering from chronic hunger and under-nourishment. Food production and nourishment relates to a range of topics including human rights, climate change, politics and health and is a problem that can be explored through many areas of the curriculum, from geography and citizenship to home economics and science.
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My home-office window overlooks St Andrews University playing fields in Scotland, where the Football Club of Barcelona (see photo) held their 2007 and 2008 summer training camps. Every day all members of the team had general fitness training as well as specialist coaching and practice matches. I watched the goal-keepers train and in a single session a goalkeeper will have fended-off well over 100 attempts at goal from every possible angle.
Football training for FC Barcelona isn't a one-off event held every summer in St Andrews; FC Barcelona is one of the greatest football teams in the World and their 2009 season has been a triumph with the highest goals scored against competition in La Liga, and lowest goals scored against in football history. The final against Manchester United later this month is set to be an all-time great Champions League Final. The point here is that when professional footballers are not playing matches, they are training!
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From Petition Creator: The children of YEA! - Youths' Equine Alliance helped to save Nevada's wild horses from slaughter by petitioning the Governor and joining with other advocacy groups' efforts. Together with your support, Nevada's Department of Agriculture, lawmakers, and Governor were moved to take action and make the necessary changes to keep the wild horses safe from slaughter.
This is a picture of Ava, our three-year-old friend who loves horses and wants to continue to grow up with wild horses. We all do, but the State of Nevada and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) frequently takes free-roaming horses off the land.
UPDATE: We have reason to celebrate, as both the BLM and the State of Nevada have recently announced changes to the way they sell horses to keep them out of slaughterhousesand we are very glad about that!
However, we also think the horses should be left on the land to continue their valuable role in the Nevada ecosystem instead of spending time in short- or long-term holding facilities at the taxpayer's expense. Through years of experience and observation of wild herds, renowned wild horse ecologist, biologist and author, Craig Downer, believes wild horses should live on wildlife reserves and be allowed to get to a population that is determined by nature. Craig, along with other concerned people and wild horse organizations, want wild horses and burros preserved and protected and have the expertise to help accomplish this goal.
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We recommend that the State of Nevada work cooperatively not only with the BLM, but also other experienced people and organizations, to restore wild horses into the three...
We recommend that the State of Nevada work cooperatively not only with the BLM, but also other experienced people and organizations, to restore wild horses into the three legal herd areas adjoining the Virginia and Flowery ranges of Nevada. These are areas where wild horses were found in 1971 and have legitimate right to live in freedom.
These horses enhance the ecosystem in many ways, including serving to reduce fire. They have been adapting here for many generations and must not be further reduced. Fences should be constructed together with overpasses in order to accommodate these national heritage horses.
People across America want to preserve the heritage of wild horses and for future generations to enjoy. Please make policies that allow collaboration between public and private sectors to encourage creation and maintenance of horse and burro reserves.
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(To vote for the resolution enter "SJR1" in the "bill name" box, then complete the form and click "submit")
YEA! Nevada's free-roaming horses are safe from slaughter!
We are happy to report that Nevada has reached an agreement with wild horse advocates to prevent free-roaming horses from being bid on openly at livestock auctioning, where they were in danger of kill-buyers.
We cannot express how happy the children are and how MANY children are sleeping easier in Nevada knowing that their beloved horses are safe.
Please read this report from the AP: Nevada Reaches Deal with Wild Horse Advocates by Scott Sonner http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/mar/16/nv-wild-horse-agreement-nevada/
BLM to remove Nevada's remaining 6 mustangs in the Deer Run band.
We are sad to report that there has to date been no agreement made between the State of Nevada, the BLM, and local advocates to keep the horses on the land. In a recent development, the BLM has decided to remove the last of a band that has been living in the are for over 50 years peacefully. How many more areas will be zeroed out?
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Craig Downer MINDEN, NV
- almost 2 years ago
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I remember there was this young stallion that had been separated from his family through the brutal roundups in the Virginia foothills – this poor horse would come up and he was just miserable and he would cry tears out of his eyes. What people did to him represents thousands and thousands like him.
Storey County was the first government in the United States to protect the wild horses through a county law and one of the main reasons was to prevent fire because they knew the horses kept the dry flammable vegetation down. I said in 2010 to the BLM of the Eagle Lake District in n. California: "why are you taking so many wild horses and burros from the Twin Peaks Herd Management Area" because if you do there is very likely going to be a catastrophic fire as a consequence. And sure enough this area broke out in a horrible fire this past summer, burning over half million acres there. This was the last anywhere near viable population in California left. Now BLM seems to be contemplating removing the few survivors. This is so wrong. See my book The Wild Horse Conspiracy. I reveal many such incidents and put forth a plan called Reserve Design so that this torture and set up for demise of America's last wild horses can end. The book is available at www.amazon.com/Wild-Horse-Conspiracy-Craig-Downer/dp/1461068983 or as a color photo eBook at www.amazon.com/dp/B009XJ64P4.
The Virginia Range area is a perfect area for the implementation of § 1336 of the Wild Horses and Burro Free-Roaming Act of 1971, "Cooperative Agreements," so that all these wonderful horses could benefit from the act and the Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund, the Wild Horse Protection League of Northern Nevada, the Virginia Highlands Wildlife Protective Association as well as other public and private entities are more than willing to enter into such an agreements.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Sonja Stimmer CAVE CREEK, AZ
- almost 2 years ago
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They need to be protected and not destroyed!REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Cathy Kindsfather CARSON CITY, NV
- almost 2 years ago
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TEh wild horse are quickly disappearing from our public lands. A great sorrow has come over the people of Nevada, tourists, and the wild horse families. Wild horses make Nevada unique & tourism is a much better option than selling them at auction where kill buyers are present hoping to win bids & profit on their flesh. Protect & preserve our remaing herds for us & future generations. Personally I enjoy seeing them in the wild & photographing them in family bands in our beautiful landscapes. Do the right thing,flip that state quarter wild horses side up with pride!REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Patrick Colletti RENO, NV
- almost 2 years ago
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The Virginia Range of mountains surrounding Virginia City Nevada has a famous history of silver and gold. It has an equally famous history of wild horses! these horses have been living there for hundreds of years and some bands are descendants of the horses that escaped the Spanish in the 1700's. Several years ago the BLM gave up the management of these animals to the State, but the State of Nevada has let these animals horribly managed. Now after essentially ignoring them for years the Agriculture department has resorted to the outdated and inhumane approach of round up and auction, totally ignoring the state law NRS 561. It is time for the people to stand up and demand better care and management for these amazing horses! As a native of historic Virginia I insist on this.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
ellen holcomb RENO, NV
- almost 2 years ago
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The wild horses in this state are in danger of eradication due to loss of environment--ranchers, track home developers, whatever! and, they are a natural fire prevention crew!REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Michael Flanagan CORONADO, CA
- over 1 year ago
- Liked 0
I've seen those NV wild horses in person & they are Beautiful..Leave them alone,let them roam free !REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Gracie Hite FORT WAYEN, IN
- over 1 year ago
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I have been around horses ever since i was young and it breaks my heart that some people don't care what happens to theses amazing and beautiful creatures.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Celia Callahan LOMPOC, UNITED STATES
- over 1 year ago
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It is our responsibility to care for the amazing animals God put on our earth for the human race. Before the automobile the American Indian and white man alike used and needed the horses to survive. Now that BLM no longer think they are needed they are being treated as a throw away item along with everything else of todays generation. NOT all of us feel that way and have a love and concern to protect the God given rights man is trying to take away. The Horses are able to survive and allow nature to take it's normal course for control.REPORT THIS COMMENT:
Serena Yusuf WOODLANDS, TX
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no one in america eats horses. so why hunt? theses beautiful creatures deserve to be free and alway have clean water. NEVER SLAUGHTER THEM AGAIN!!!!!!!!!REPORT THIS COMMENT:
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A Minster Church was established in Southwell in 956: apart from the tessellated floor the only remaining piece of the Saxon church is the late 11th century tympanum (lintel) over a doorway in the North transept. From 1108-1150 the Minster was rebuilt in the Norman style. In 1234 The Norman Quire was replaced by the present Early English Gothic masterpiece. The building was damaged during the Civil War, and struck by lightning in 1711. It was extensively restored in the late 19th century, and became a Cathedral in 1884.
Today the Minster has two functions: it is the cathedral for the 313 churches in the Southwell Diocese and it is an active and well-loved parish church. Maintenance and restoration of the Minster continues. New organs, nave choir stalls, a magnificent new West window and modern artwork have been installed in recent years.
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Homestuck is the modern Aeneid.
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Several complex groups of nonhumans able to exert influences on their adventures? Check.
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Conflict and romance and infighting and more between the two races? Check.
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