Jamie Moyer plays for the 2012 Colorado Rockies

Welcome to the thread with the lowest number of posts on the board. Sit back and enjoy the Rockies scrapping to 80 wins with a creaking offence and several starting pictures so young they won't actually be born until after the ASB.

I read a theory today that the rockies acquired a bunch of fly ball pitchers so the other team would hit it over the heads of helton, scutaro and whatever old man combo sticks at 3rd.

It's a theory! Unless they hit them to Cuddyer, of course. Then we're screwed. Unless we're going for Cargo and Fowler on their own in the outfield which would probaly be about as effective - then we can have Helton & Cuddyer share the 1B side, Scutaro and Blake share 3B and Tulo can take the middle. Actually I rather like the sound of this.

Just finished watching Running on Empty for the first time ever. There's a snippet of a baseball game on the radio towards the end, and you can hear Moyer mentioned. The film came out in 1988.

hopefully not an indicator of what he's got left in the tank!!

i want him to play til he's 50.

@DKnobler
Jason Giambi on Moyer: "He threw a changeup at 60-something (mph). You don't think the ball can stay in the air that long."

@DKnobler
Mark McLemore was a Jamie Moyer teammate for 7 yrs. "He used to say, if I hit 82 (mph), tell me. It's too hard." Moyer yesterday: 79-81

Meanwhile, (Brandon) Wood enters what could be his offensive prime at age 27, with a better pedigree than all his third-base rivals combined and an incredibly short burst of success that I've decided to wildly overrate.

Yeah, Wood has totally tailed off as the opposing pitchers have got better. Ah well.

mark c no longer has casey blake to kick around

hes a good dude. only problem is he cant look up because his neck is fucked.

@sportspickle
Not making this up: If Jamie Moyer had been on the inaugural 1993 Rockies team, he would have been the oldest pitcher in their rotation.

tremendous

Stuff Jamie Moyer can accomplish this year:

http://www.highheatstats.com/2012/03/jamie-moyers-gonna-break-a-lot-of-records/

Why all the "since 1918" crap? Is 1918 the new 1901?

is it about the live ball era?

Some guy in the comments section had the same thought I did: will Moyer pitch to Vizquel this year? The Jays and Rockies don't play, though. Their combined 94+ years surely would have been a record.

were there lots of 50-yo pitchers in the Deadball Era? I doubt it.

yes, that wd seem to be a record, but not by that much:

http://www.highheatstats.com/2012/03/oldest-batter-vs-pitcher-matchups/

@StoneLarry
Amazing comeback from Tommy John surgery by Jamie Moyer. FYI, Moyer pitched 4 seasons while Tommy John was still active.

Anyone want to talk about anything Rockies related that isn't Moyer?

Oh.

I suppose I could give an update in case anyone's interested. The Rockies 25-man is now set, albeit temporarily, as they're going with 3 starting pitchers for opening day (Guthrie, Nicasio, Chacin - Moyer will join after a game and Pomeranz will slot in after the 15th), which allows players of deep interest such as Johnny Herrera, Eric Young Jr, Josh Outman and Tyler Chatwood to make the squad.

Tyler Colvin has made it in as 4th outfielder and tied for most ST homers with nominated backup catcher Wilin Rosario. Jordan Pacheco and Chris Nelson will share 3B duties.

Oh god I've just realised how mediocre this team is going to be.

"players of deep interest" is a great euphemism

The final ST outings from all four of our initial starting rotation have been bad to really bad.

I don't understand--what does any of this have to do with Jamie Moyer?

heres an interesting fact from tweeter

Jamie Moyer pitched more than 500 @MLB innings before today’s opponent – Madison Bumgarner – was born in 1989. #MoyerFact

Moyer has the best stats of any of our starters.

Every time I see Country Joe West, I'm kinda surprised he's alive.

think it's about time to wrap the moyer experiment up

Amen.

Can you buy him a two-way ticket to paradise, so he can take Omar Vizquel with him?

MOVEMENT 2012 KICKOFF

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/video-eddie-money-stops-by-7-action-news-this-morning

eddie looking a little schillingian there

Moyer DFA'd

COL leads NL in runs scored, still has -15 run differential. My blood pressure wouldn't stand being a fan of this team.

J Giambi grounded into double play, first to third to pitcher, M Cuddyer out at second.
J Giambi grounded into double play, first to catcher to first, M Scutaro out at home.
J Giambi grounded into double play, second to third to first, M Cuddyer out at second.

this team fucking sucks

The four man rotation experiment will be interesting.

also, Tulo out 8 weeks

really would like to know the what 'plan' is in the front office in colorado.. trading Ubaldo is a good move in hindsight but the other recent moves have been sideways at best.

The Hammel/Guthrie trade seemed like a good idea at the time

The "plan" has been made public - a bridging year in 2012 for the young pitchers and the strong prospects (Arenado, Rutledge maybe) to season, and a real effort in 2013-15 with Tulo and Cargo at their peak.

That things haven't worked out is predominantly bad luck - the current (weird, probably wrong) 4-man rotation contains none of the 5 starters at opening day. Our hitting is top 6 in the majors (our fielding, though, is weirdly crap, and probably the biggest legitimate disappointment).

I was fine with Hammel for Guthrie (I thought Lindstrom as well was verging on an overpay, but not a big deal). Hammel's performance this year has been so far off the charts that no-one could be b lamed for not predicting it; Guthrie was more of a risk in a sense, but even so a 7 ERA is way, way worse than anyone expected. So yeah, hasn't exactly worked out, but that's baseball, not bad decision-making.

I know it's defeatist, but I am kind of happy that things have gone so badly to shit, because now there's no need to make efforts to win now. The 4-man thing is probably a hiding to nothing (though we do have a very good bullpen, somehow) but if it protects/helps development - and I'm not convinced yet that it does - then fuck it, give it a go.

Have you guys seen this? I am, in this season of shit, actually pretty excited to see what happens.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/rockies/story/2012-06-26/rockies-Apodaca-radical-change/55848988/1

"If we get into the postseason," O'Dowd says of a club currently 14 games out of first place, "you might be shocked by what we do."

yeah I look forward to never seeing what you might do in the post season

from Matthew Kory of BP:

"The Rockies blew leads of seven runs (early) and one run (late) before winning in the 11th. They could have blown more leads but blowing a seven-run lead takes time."

humor

http://oldtimefamilybaseball.com/post/29046750056/joe-garagiola-jrs-first-draft-of-the-pace-of

Mets' radio team crucifying Betancourt's funereal pace was funny

rox having a rough 8th inning at wrigley

Team SP ERA is 5.97.

Good lord.

16-13 in August, I'll take that. If EVERYTHING goes right over the next 6 months we might be a decent force in 2013 *brave face*

Just finished watching Running on Empty for the first time ever. There's a snippet of a baseball game on the radio towards the end, and you can hear Moyer mentioned. The film came out in 1988.

― clemenza, Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:20 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i recently watched & noticed this also :)

i was wondering if jamie moyer was an active member of the cubs roster during the baseball game ferris bueller went to, but it looks like it was a game from 1985 (he debuted in 1986.) however his MLB debut was 5 days after the movie was actually released so it was close.

trevor story has hit three homers in his first two major league games

Four (so far) in three games.

thank god he isn't at Coors

five in four games

he did single earlier tho

six

three more hits, three runs and an RBI today so far. what an insane start to a career.

we have tickets to see rockies a week from monday! (also we will be in denver all that week if any ilxors fancy a pint?)

Jorge de la Rosa moved to the pen

this guy is like if a videogame was creating justin morneau but didnt have mlb name rights

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/33257/dustin-garneau

& he just hit a bomb off clay buchholz

Tyler Chatwood 3rd in MLB pitching bWAR

jose reyes has been reinstated from the restricted list and designated for assignment

dude is just a walking liability now. i'm almost, *ALMOST*, tempted to feel bad for the guy. almost. no club will want to pay a player with a tarnished reputation millions of dollars just waiver between the DL and replacement-level performance.

Dave Cameron sez a minor-league deal, somewhere "probably"