Rotating stats
DMZ · August 15, 2008 at 8:31 pm · Filed Under Mariners
K/9
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BEST ~9
Felix 8.34
Bedard 8
RRS 6.97
LEAGUE AVERAGE ~6
Batista 5.72
Dickey 5.19
Washburn 5.17
Silva 3.89
WORST ~3.5
BB/9
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BEST ~1
Silva 1.65
Washburn 2.72
Felix 3.46
LEAGUE AVERAGE ~4
RRS 4.01
Dickey 4.04
Bedard 4.11
Batista 6.09
WORST ~8 (actually, more like 7, 7.5 — at eight you have to be a short reliever who throws 100)
HR/9
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BEST ~.4
Felix 0.6
RRS 0.74
LEAGUE AVERAGE ~1
Bedard 1
Washburn 1.06
Silva 1.12
Dickey 1.15
Batista 1.5
WORST ~1.6
LD%
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BEST ~14%
Bedard 16.7
Dickey 18.3
Felix 18.5
Batista 21.5
Silva 22.2
Washburn 22.8
RRS 23
WORST ~25%
GB%
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RRS 30.6
LOW ~33%
Washburn 36.2
Bedard 40.3
Batista 43
Silva 44.2
Dickey 46.8
Felix 51.5
HIGH ~65.6% (for Webb… mortals aspire to 60%)
Felix is good…we know 😉
So, Miguel Batista is ~WORST?
No no. WORST is an acronym for Batista, Washburn, and Silva.
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Oh, that’s good.
Remember, these are all without factoring in Safeco, too.
That is a good one, JMH…I’ll have to remember that!
Meanwhile, I think I may have solved the mystery of how The Burger Chef (Silva) went from being a “ground ball specialist” at the Metrodome to having his whole repertoire of suck pitches hit out to the warning track (or beyond) at Safeco: namely, there must be some kind of magnetic force-field array built in to the teflon roof there that caused his pitches to sink more.
Yes, I know it’s a reach, but still…
If there was, it must have been manipulated by the Twins, because we can be very certain it wasn’t working tonight.
Great acronym, JMH. Absolutely nailed it. Now, what do we do with them? But even more important, how do we avoid WORST in the future? The answer to the first is obvious, we keep paying them because no one else is going to take them off our hands (at a price the current FO will agree to). I’m really more interested in how to keep the FO from doing this again. Evaluating future pitching performance is difficult for any team, yet some do it much better than we do.
All the fat jokes aside, the compassionate (i.e. non-empirical) side of me at partially wants to believe that The Burger Chef, at 29, is not completely washed up just yet…
However, must this FO really pay him $12+ million next year just to give him some more rope?
The Burger Chef. Hehe.
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So Washburn’s greatest attribute, his heightened skill, is that he walks slighlty fewer batters than league average? Otherwise, he’s below average, except for maybe grit and age.
Washburn is ~BEST in RRARP.
Rodent Resemblance Above Replacement Player
Like what I see out of RRS, especially his K/9 & HR/9. There’s our #5 next year!
Numbers are slightly different for starters and relievers, but mere mortals actually aspire to Roy Corcoran’s ridiculous 72% batted ball rate.
Also the lowest GB%, therefore his FB% is higher, so perhaps the low HR/9 is a bit fluky? Or does this somehow have more to do with his primarily being used in relief?
to quote Larry Stone on the blog, “He is now 0-5, 8.03 in his last eight starts (40.1 ip, 36 er, 61 hits, five homers, .351 opponents average). He is a sinkerball pitcher who is too often throwing the ball thigh high, as Jim Riggleman put it. I’m no Leo Mazzone, but that’s not good.”
Silva, that is.
“edit” doesn’t work if you walk away after hitting the post button.
Selfish players pad their own stats. Stand up guys like Silva are generous and willing to help pad the stats of others.