JOEL PINEIRO NEWS
Putting UZR to the Test
10 days ago by
Viva El Birdos
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by Jeff Roberson - AP
St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Joel Pineiro sits alone in the dugout during the fifth inning and considers whether he would rather move to New York, Cleveland, or Milwaukee, after being...
Type-B personalities
5 hours ago by
Viva El Birdos
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Your Type A and B free agents for the 2009-2010 Hot Stove season:
TYPE A
Matt Holliday: This seems pretty obvious. Bad news: the Mets, Holliday's current Media Suitor of choice, have a protected first rounder in 2010, leaving the Cardinals stuck with a second rounder...
Game 133 Open Thread: Shaq/Brewers at Pujols/Cardinals
September 01, 2009 by
Viva El Birdos
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Looper
Pineiro
11-6, 4.88
13-9, 3.11
Braden L. Looper The weirdest of Duncanites Joe L. Pineiro
Free Agent at the End of the Season: Joel Pineiro
September 20, 2009 by
Jorge Says No
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It's a good time to be Joel Pineiro. After muddling around in the land of mediocrity for the past five years, Pineiro's 2009 season has been a revelation. Seemingly out of nowhere, Pineiro has catapulted himself from an average starting pitcher to the productive and sometimes...
Valuing Joel Pineiro
September 29, 2009 by
Jorge Says No
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What kind of contract will Joel Pineiro get on the open market? The great Jon Heyman took a stab at that very question yesterday with this prediction:"Pineiro, two years, $15 million."This prediction is interesting to me because it's far lower than my prediction for Pineiro...
Keeping the Seat Warm
7 days ago by
Viva El Birdos
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I have nothing uniquely insightful to post today so this is more of a holdover until/unless someone else chimes in.
This World Series has been interminably boring. I detest 3 hour 30 minute games. I've watched AJ Burnett with envy for the last few years wondering...
It ended as it began
October 11, 2009 by
Viva El Birdos
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Well, it was a good ride while it lasted – a much better season than most of us expected. We didn’t deserve to win the series. We were outpitched, outhit, and outfielded; the Dodgers were clearly the better team over the 3 game series. First of all, I wanted to deal w/ the...
Game 109 Open Thread: Cardinals at Mets
August 04, 2009 by
Viva El Birdos
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Pineiro
Santana
9-9, 2.84
12-8, 2.96
Santana's strikeout rate is still low, for him, but his last start was his first game over a strikeout an inning since May, when the nosedive began. He's a good enough pitcher that he's still great...
An Open Letter from Christy Mathewson
August 21, 2009 by
Viva El Birdos
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St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Joel Pineiro throws to the plate during the third inning of a base ball game against the San Diego Padres, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Bill James Influence Evident in Joel Piniero Signing
January 09, 2007 by
cooperstownkid.blogspot.com
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I don't know how accurate this article is, but it presents reasoning I hadn't heard yet as to why the Red Sox acquired Joel Piniero to act as the team's closer.
Stats guru and Red Sox senior advisor for baseball operations Bill James has very various theories on what...
Comparing Cards' Champs
September 16, 2009 by
Viva El Birdos
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by Jeff Roberson - AP
Despite not throwing his best game of the season Wednesday, Joel Pineiro is a major reason the '09 Cards would be competitive w/ recent championship Cards' teams. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson...
Over the same time period, Joel Pineiro contributed 1.4 runs
July 21, 2009 by
Viva El Birdos
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by David J. Phillip - AP
St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Rick Ankiel—careful...—catches a fly ball hit by—oh god, oh god, is he gonna—Houston Astros' Lance Berkman during the sixth inning of—man...
Game 131 Open Thread: Nationals at Cardinals
August 29, 2009 by
Viva El Birdos
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Stammen
Boggs
4-6, 5.08
1-2, 4.58
Craig Stammen—who I am assured is a real person—has walked just 1.8 batters per nine innings in his first MLB stint, but he's not striking anybody out, either; if The New Joel Pineiro were indifferent...
Sox Close In On Joel Pineiro
January 04, 2007 by
Red Sox Times
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More on the Red Sox acquisition of Joel Pineiro. There are vesting options and incentives based on numbers of games finished indicating they are going to give him a go as a closer candidate.
2009 Stache All Star: Joel Pineiro
July 14, 2009 by
Jorge Says No
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The St. Louis Cardinals need to get some kind of award for first half mustaches.Ankiel. Kinney. LaRue (picture needed). Carpenter.And how bout this bonus: Ryan Franklin and his under beard thing.Calling the American Mustache Institute....
Superman: Son Of Jo-El
June 24, 2009 by
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I don't get it ... do the Mets orbit around a different colored sun that turns Jo-El Pineiro into a super hero?That has to be the explanation. Oh you remember Jo-El as the guy who helped wreck the Mets season in 2007. And he was back at it again earlier this season. But Tuesday...
Game 113 Open Thread -- August 9, 2009
August 09, 2009 by
Viva El Birdos
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I'm a little under the weather today so I'm just going to put up a game thread early and go back to bed.
Pineiro
Duke
2.91 FIP
4.24 FIP
I don't know about you, but when Pineiro got knocked around by the Mets Tuesday I thought...
Starting Five: Cardinals' Pineiro Stays Hot
by Jeff FletcherFiled under: Cardinals, Giants, Marlins, Rays, Rockies, Starting FiveStarting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action with a quick nod to what is ahead.You Oughta Know ...That the Cardinals' Big Two has quietly become a Big Three. By now most...
Joel Pineiro pitches old enough to vote for Rutherford Hayes
July 10, 2009 by
Viva El Birdos
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by Morry Gash - AP
St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Joel Pineiro throws during the seventh inning of a baseball game Thursday, July 9, 2009, in Milwaukee. It was probably a strike.
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Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past
June 24, 2009 by
Viva El Birdos
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by Frank Franklin II - AP
The question must be asked: Could Joel Pineiro throw a sinker so good that not even Joel Pineiro could put it into the gap? (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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Cardinals Not Expecting Much At GM Meetings
1 day ago by
MLB Rumors
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Cardinals GM John Mozeliak is lowering expectations for this week even though his team has plenty of issues to address this offseason, according to Joe Strauss The St. Louis Post Dispatch.
"I'd say the chances of us making anything happen there is very small,"...
Bill James and Pitchers
18 days ago by
Viva El Birdos
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I think we, as a community of worriers, are relatively pat about the offense—if anything bad were to happen, be it Pujols missing a chunk of time; Rasmus continuing to be Ramos; or the Cardinals seriously going into the 2010 season with Skip Schumaker and Allen Craig dueling...
Game 72 Overflow
June 23, 2009 by
Viva El Birdos
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by Frank Franklin II - AP
St. Louis Cardinals starter Joel Pineiro delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets on Tuesday, June 23, 2009, in New York. If you can't tell...
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