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Posts: 2515 July 21, 2012 2:23 PM I'm really Jim Nantz	Remove this ad His second straight 6 inning of shutout ball. Pinch hit for the bottom of the 6th with a 1-0 lead. For so long he was the best pitcher for us with no hitting around since he left our hitting has been good but our pitching is spotty. Atlanta fans were like Brewer fans ripping Sheets saying he would get shelled by the Nationals since they were a better hitting team than Pitt. Nice to see Sheets come back! 2.5 seconds to throw? How do you go down field in 2.5 seconds?
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good4buck		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4539 July 21, 2012 2:39 PM	good for him--he had a lot of bad injury luck when with us and as you said, little hitting support. Wish him well
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Posts: 1628 July 21, 2012 2:39 PM Chime's wing man	Sheets had the best Curveball in the game, 12/6 sharp late break. When big league hitters are swinging at stuff that land 2-3 feet in front of the plate, you know it's plus plus plus on the scouting scale. I meet one of the bullpen guys from 2004 and I told him I was at the 18 strike out game of Sheets, he just giggled and said, they (Braves) had no chance what so ever to hit that day. Sad thing is he also said Sheets change up was just as good. __________________"I use to think Drinking was bad for me, so I gave up thinking"
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Posts: 4117 July 21, 2012 4:16 PM	Ben's problem was never his overall stuff or how he performed when healthy. I don't think he took care of himself. For the Braves sake I hope they are looking at him as a bonus and aren't banking on him.
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Posts: 2515 July 21, 2012 7:42 PM I'm really Jim Nantz	Remove this ad mwingb wrote Ben's problem was never his overall stuff or how he performed when healthy. I don't think he took care of himself. For the Braves sake I hope they are looking at him as a bonus and aren't banking on him. I think that was the perception but I don't know how accurate it was. I remember how he tried so hard when CC was here then people ripped him for getting injured but no Brewer the next year pitched as many innings as him. Sheets 04 season was so similar to Johan's who won the Cy Young outside of the wins. Innings pitched: 151.1 216.2 220.2 237.0 156.2 106 141.1 198.1 Ave 178.15 innings pitched. With Sheets injuries find a Brewer pitcher who averaged 178 innings pitched 3.72 era and a 1.201 whip Atlanta probably did pick him up because of that 18 K game. It's been a good year for Ex-Brewer pitchers! 2.5 seconds to throw? How do you go down field in 2.5 seconds?
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WestCoastBadger		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 5743 July 21, 2012 8:17 PM	My sources say he was kind of a couch potato and didn't take care of himself well enough.
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Posts: 2515 July 22, 2012 4:25 AM I'm really Jim Nantz	WestCoastBadger wrote: My sources say he was kind of a couch potato and didn't take care of himself well enough. That's true and he might have been but looking back he was out there. Even his last year with the Crew he pitched 198.2 before being shut down. That 198.1 innings was more than Yovanni pitched in any of his seasons outside of a 207 inning yr. In 05 Sheets had an inner ear infection that knocked him out of 30 games. That wasn't the result of laying around. Ben Sheets did have a reputation for being lazy and his body worsened for a young man but his production might have topped every Brewer pix while the perception of Higuera and other successful one's was not as negative for some reason. He was the man on some bad teams and there was blame that might have been right to throw out there but his production far exceeded the abuse hurled at him. 2.5 seconds to throw? How do you go down field in 2.5 seconds?
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The Ghost of Larry Horse		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2729 July 22, 2012 9:04 AM	With Sheets' work ethic, hard not to be surprised he's making a comeback like this.
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Posts: 10000 July 22, 2012 10:14 AM Ron Santo's Heart & Soul	Remove this ad I added him in my money league, so, look for his demise in his next 2 starts I say. "If you lie, it becomes part of your future. If you tell the truth, it becomes part of your past." ~Rick Pitino
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