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[QB Eagles]

While watching the Astros at Rockies game today, I have discovered yesterday Colorado's AAA team won 25-7 last night and two guys hit for the cycle.

Then you saw a record broken:

It certainly isn't as glamourous as Pete Rose's major-league record for hits, but Craig Biggio now owns the modern record for being hit.

Biggio, 39, was hit by a pitch for the 268th time in his MLB career during the fourth inning of Houston's game at Colorado on Wednesday afternoon.

Byung-Hyun Kim's pitch struck Biggio on the pad protecting his right elbow, the second time in two games and 12th time so far this season that he has been hit.

Biggio tied Don Baylor's post-1900 mark of 267 when plunked in the lower back by a pitch from Jason Jennings in Tuesday's 6-5 loss to the Rockies.

[Geowhizzer]

Kenny Rogers throws a hissy fit with reporters.

[Rome]

Kenny Rogers throws a hissy fit with reporters.

Something tells me Senor Rodriguez will have a few extra bucks to spend on his next vacation.



BTW: I wonder if the thought occured to any of the cameramen to pull the camera off their shoulders and smash Rogers in the face with it as he attacked them? 

[Geowhizzer]

UTLEY! 

[Dillen]

While watching the Astros at Rockies game today, I have discovered yesterday Colorado's AAA team won 25-7 last night and two guys hit for the cycle.

Then you saw a record broken:

It certainly isn't as glamourous as Pete Rose's major-league record for hits, but Craig Biggio now owns the modern record for being hit.

Biggio, 39, was hit by a pitch for the 268th time in his MLB career during the fourth inning of Houston's game at Colorado on Wednesday afternoon.

Byung-Hyun Kim's pitch struck Biggio on the pad protecting his right elbow, the second time in two games and 12th time so far this season that he has been hit.

Biggio tied Don Baylor's post-1900 mark of 267 when plunked in the lower back by a pitch from Jason Jennings in Tuesday's 6-5 loss to the Rockies.

I know..im an Astros fan.

[Geowhizzer]

It's official:  Boone cut by Mariners

[BigEd76]

The Astros are trying to trade for Adam Dunn, and 2 of the 3 prospects going to Cincinnati are Astacio and Buchholz.  You may remember them from the Billy Wagner trade... 

[Dillen]

Good. Astacio will love that ballpark. 

[BigEd76]

Fernando Nieve is the 3rd guy, BTW...

[Dillen]

NO. NO. NO.


I wouldnt do Astacio, Buccholz, and Nieve for Dunn. For minor league pitching, that leaves McLemore and Patton...that's pretty much it. I also heard it could be any 2 of those 3, plus Burke or Lane..

[PhillyPhreak54]

Duinn would be well received in Houston since he's from Texas and all.

Plus the Astros need some kind of offense.

[Dillen]

Yeah, their offense hasnt been bad lately though. Im wondering if he goes to Houston, who sits, Burke or Lane? Anyways, there was this one interview where he completely obsessed over going to Houston, they asked if he'd do it for half of what he deserves and stuff and he still said yes.

[Mad-Lad]

Yeah, their offense hasnt been bad lately though. Im wondering if he goes to Houston, who sits, Burke or Lane? Anyways, there was this one interview where he completely obsessed over going to Houston, they asked if he'd do it for half of what he deserves and stuff and he still said yes.

I remember hearing him on the radio a couple years ago talking about how he's still a huge Astros fan.  That being said, I don't know if i'd be willing to sit Lane or Burke.  I can't say i've necessarily followed Dunn's career, but doesn't he strike out ALL THE TIME?

[Geowhizzer]

Yeah, their offense hasnt been bad lately though. Im wondering if he goes to Houston, who sits, Burke or Lane? Anyways, there was this one interview where he completely obsessed over going to Houston, they asked if he'd do it for half of what he deserves and stuff and he still said yes.

I remember hearing him on the radio a couple years ago talking about how he's still a huge Astros fan.  That being said, I don't know if i'd be willing to sit Lane or Burke.  I can't say i've necessarily followed Dunn's career, but doesn't he strike out ALL THE TIME?

I can't remember the show I heard this on (may be the XM Radio Baseball show with Larry Bowa), but they were comparing Dunn to another slugging Reds outfielder of yore, Ted Kluszewski.

For Kluszewski's four "prime seasons," he hit 40, 49, 47 and 35 home runs.  During those four seasons, he struck out 34, 35, 40 and 31 times, for a total of 140 strikeouts over the four seasons, in a total of 2272 at-bats.  "Big Klu" struck out about 6.2% of the time.

For comparison, last season Adam Dunn hit 46 home runs.  He struck out 195 times in 568 at bats! Dunn struck out 34.3% of the time.

Dunn has struck out 55 more times last year than Klu did over four seasons, or in 1704 less at bats. 

Dunn has struck out 39% more in exactly 25% of the at bats.

Hopefully Dunn learns much like our own Mike Schmidt that he can still hit a bunch of homers without swinging quite so hard, thereby reducing the enormous amount of strikeouts (remember, Schmitty had 180 strikeouts in 1975, and had reduced that total to an average of 109 from 1979-1987, while keeping his homerun rate to just under 38, which was his total for that 1975 season.

I still say that 1981 strike kept Schmidt from having an even better year in 1981 than he had in 1980.  He could've had 50+ homers that year.

[Mad-Lad]

Damn Geo.  thanks for the info.

I"m kinda iffy about trading prospects to insert a strikeout machine.  Having Brandon Backe and Roy Oswalt will be around for a while, but Pettitte and Clemens aren't getting any younger.  Losing Wade Miller to the Red Sox hasn't really hurt too bad considering he isn't back at 100%.  Either way, i'd rather hold on to the young arms.