Matt Capps sucks. Joe Mauer is a wuss. This was the worst ...
Nope. I'm not going to say it. Every time someone says it, a worse one comes along.
I just would like to know if this was the eighth inning and Capps was considered a setup man, how long would he have been in there? I would have to believe that he would not have been allowed to face Nyjer Morgan.
Maybe some good will come out of this if Joe Nathan is reinstated as the closer. It certainly couldn't hurt.
Back from my FIL's brother's wedding.
Reaaaaally glad I missed this one.
My once only somewhat irrational hatred of Capps has become completely rational, methinks.
We had a good time at the ballpark until the end. My daughter cried when the Twins lost. Matt Capps, you made my four year old cry.
how the heck did the Twins let Nyjer Morgan of all people kick the living crap out of them all night? (although the umps helped out a bit when they ruled him safe instead of out and he came around to score)
It wasn't nyjer, it was tony plush.
Guess who has the best WHIP of all Twins relievers?
Yeah, Crapps. His only peripheral this year that has stunk is his home run ratio, which is kind of a big no-no for a closer. He also doesn't strike as many people out as most of our relievers, and I'm thinking with our mediocre to blah defense, it's less important to not walk guys as it is to not let them put the ball in play.
Or, whatever. GOSO.
Chuck James 0.600
Anthony Slama 0.857
Matt Capps 1.114
Glen Perkins 1.295
Joe Nathan June-July 0.250
Alex Burnett June-July 0.889
Glen Perkins June-July 1.500
Matt Capps June-July 1.636
Capps' GB% was also way better last year. I think he's a good not great reliever that would benefit from not being the closer for a while. Give him a shorter leash in the 7th/8th innings. Either way it's looking more and more like Nathan returns as our closer next year. You know, when the games are important again.
Capps has developed a bad knack for giving up runs at the wrong time. Of the last 10 runs he's allowed, all of them have contributed to a blown save. Closers give up meaningless runs all the time (a solo home run with a three-run lead, for instance) and yet Capps has not allowed a meaningless run since allowing a meaningless solo HR at Baltimore on April 18. Capps has allowed 18 runs this year and only three of them were meaningless.
How many would have been "meaningless" if he'd stopped the bleeding a little sooner?
That's the point. He rarely gives up a run with a multiple-run lead. He has difficulty stopping the bleeding. Or has had bad luck with the timing of his run-scoring outings, however you want to look at it.
In other words, he sux.
That one really stings... but I 'm not onboard with the GOSO yet, not when they can still win the series. That's the goal, right? Keep winning each series and you get back in it.