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Monday, March 21, 2011
Milwaukee Brewers 2011 - 25 in 25 - Kameron Loe (16 of 25)
Brewers pitcher Kameron Loe does draw comparisons to the Addams' Family butler Lurch. At 6'8" Loe is the tallest and most intimidating force in the bullpen. Lurch is pretty intimidating himself and most like will scare the bejesus out of representatives from the Church of Latter Day Saints when the come door to door looking to spread the good word and collect donations. Lurch would scare them Lutheran. When Loe stands on the mound he gains 10 inches, putting him at an impressive 7'6" of pitching dominance. It's not too hard to throw pitches on a downward plane from that height to induce ground balls, but you still need to have control to be able to locate your pitches effectively. Lurch was 6'9" tall and stands a full inch taller than Kameron Loe, but I doubt that he could strike out Aramis Ramirez. He could probably break him in half because Lurch was some kind of monster or some shit, but I don't think Major League baseball would allow a pitcher to rip people in half as a way of getting them out. That's the kind of plate appearance that would land you on the permanent DL.
So it takes more than just being tall to pitch a baseball, just like just being tall does not make you good at basketball. Sure it helps, but you also need to have talent and athletic skill. In 58 innings in 2010 Loe struck out 46 batters and walked 15. Now I'm no math whiz or anything, but that looks like a 3:1 ratio, which is pretty damn good if you ask me. And that doesn't take into effect the number of times that he got a hitter to ground out or hit into a double play. There is a stat for that somewhere because there is a stat for everything in major league baseball. If I wanted to find out Kameron Loe's ERA in Miller Park weekday day games when the temperature was below 65 degrees and the roof was closed and the circus was in town and the vending machine was out of Snickers bars that day and he showered that morning and he took the side streets to Miller Park instead of the freeway on days when he was wearing a black undershirt I could find that information out. But that's not why you come to a site like this. You come here because I say that Kameron Loe looks like Lurch from the Addams Family. Now that's some hardcore journalism and sports analysis that you won't get anywhere else. I promise you that.
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