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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5205828, member: 289"] 42 walks in 6 games was a killer. I heard Bud Poliquin on the radio today saying it drives him crazy when a pitcher with an 0-2 or 1-2 count gets the ball anywhere near the plate. It drives me crazy to go from an 0-2 count to a 3-2 count and then maybe a walk. I think every pitch should at least look like something the hitter might want to swing at. With all the curves, sliders, splitter and sweepers and the velocity and movement on fastballs, that's no point in throwing a pitch a catcher has to stand up to catch or one he has to field in the dirt. A pitcher with an 0-2 count should be trying to strike the guy out. It also killed me when the Dodgers, with a line up full of guys everyone has heard of, beat us with the guys nobody has heard of. We could have beaten Ohtani, Betts and Freeman. We got beat by Edman, the Hernandezes, Muncy and Pages. [/QUOTE]