Comments on: Game 69, Pirates at Mariners

By: joser

joser — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:51:20 +0000

Yeah, you have to expect Putz to regress to his usual 78% eventually, but it could be next season. We’re talking about a very small sample here, and sometimes guys have one otherwordly season (just ask Gagne).

More likely, of course, is that he’ll get lit up in one game. And that’s all it’s going to take to bring him back to his average. He’s pitched 32 innnings and given up 4 ER. If he gave up a grand slam in his next one-inning outing, that would bring his ERA all the way up to 2.25, which is almost what it was for all of 2006 (2.30). And all it could take is one bad pitch — in a perfect storm inning, with a bad throw by Yuni to blow a dp and an outfield fly Raul can’t reach, he could have the bases loaded having done nothing wrong; and then he happens to serve up a meatball (or has the misfortune of facing someone like Vlad with nowhere to put him)…

So yeah, he could regress to his mean, but that could very well just end up as one blown save for him and one loss in the team’s record. Which hurts, but isn’t exactly a “time bomb.”

By: mmccall

mmccall — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:50:42 +0000

Just listened to Curto’s Doyle interview. He opted for treatment rather than surgery and is going to just try playing through it. (he had a cortizone injection) He said he expects to be back in the lineup in a few days. I especially found it interesting that he found out about the Nats trade from JJ Putz.

If you listen to the recording, the interview begins at about the 14 minute mark.

By: Typical Idiot Fan

Typical Idiot Fan — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:58:42 +0000

I love JJ Putz…

But…

FIP – 2.98
xFIP – 2.88

LOB% – 101.1%(!)

Putz’s average LOB% is about 78% so are we looking at a ticking time bomb? I don’t suppose he’ll get wonked too badly when he regresses (if he regresses), but a 1.11 ERA he simply cannot maintain forever.

I’m just hoping he doesn’t do it when / if we get back into serious contention.

By: scott19

scott19 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:47:19 +0000

With the exception of Shannon Dreyer, of course.

By: scott19

scott19 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:26:10 +0000

#267: Yet, sad as it might sound, KJR’s post-game “show” is still light years ahead of the sludge that oozes out of KOMO following the games.

By: joser

joser — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:17:19 +0000

much to the amusement of my Phillie-bred friends, the Adirondacks were played by the Cascades in the film.

Which is why they looked like actual mountains, rather than what passes by that name out east.

By: BKM

BKM — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:49:04 +0000

267. What city needs more than one?

By: chief

chief — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:27:14 +0000

#266 It is a sad state of affairs that KJR is the only local sports talk station in a great area like Seattle metro.

By: msb

msb — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:26:42 +0000

If the pitch could theoreticaly be hit,he was highly likely to swing.

feh. it didn’t have to be anywhere near hittable for Manny to swing

The official scorer calls everything a hit.

I ended up (by accident) hearing part of the KJR postgame last night as Jeff Nelson was proudly proclaiming having brow-beaten the scorer into changing an error into a hit.

Where was the Deer Hunter filmed? I remember it taking place somewhere outside of Pittsburgh.

much to the amusement of my Phillie-bred friends, the Adirondacks were played by the Cascades in the film.

By: Ron Stevens

Ron Stevens — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:15:17 +0000

I didn’t see tonight’s game;with the description that the Pirates were not working the count;it reminds me of Manny Sanguillen,the long retired former Pirate catcher.If the pitch could theoreticaly be hit,he was highly likely to swing.