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| Jul-06-15 | | playground player: <Esteemed Baseball Mavens> I turned on the Mets game yesterday and was immediately treated to two inanities. "Last year So-and-so had the ninth worst Velocity Change in the National League." Take about jejune statistics... Followed up by, "Whatsisname doesn't like being in the six-man pitching rotation..." So what's this? Starting pitchers now work only once a week, and hardly ever past the seventh inning? What a bunch of girlie men! Mickey Lolich, 1971--Mais ou sont las nieges d'antan? (Francois Villon) |
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Jul-06-15
 | | keypusher: <playground player> But wouldn't it have been nice for Sandy Koufax to have been able to pitch past age 30? I think Bill James suggested somewhere that someone try a three-man rotation but have them pitch just a few innings each time. The current usage of pitchers is surely sub-optimal (ie not using your most effective short-stint pitcher if you're tied or a run behind), but the days of Mickey Lolich are never coming back. |
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| Jul-06-15 | | Jim Bartle: There are Loliches and Ryans and Spahns, but there are also Gary Nolan, Wayne Simmons, Don Gullett, and those are just the Reds. Many, many pitchers have blown out their arms from overwork. Weren't Kerry Wood and Josh Beckett supposed to be heading straight to the Hall of Fame? Six man rotations do seem going too far the other way, though. To paraphrase James, that's taking six starts away from your best pitcher, six starts away from your second best pitcher, six starts away from your third best pitcher, six starts away from your fourth best pitcher, six starts away from your fifth best pitcher, and giving all those starts to your sixth best pitcher. Then we have Kansas City from last year, who had a sixth-inning reliever, a seventh-inning reliever, an eighth-inning reliever, and a ninth-inning reliever. That's sort of like James' suggestion. |
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Jul-06-15
 | | WannaBe: You know what else 'bothers' me?? Lefty Specialists, Jesse Orosco, 'nuff said. =) |
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Jul-06-15
| | WannaBe: I see, that Detroit Pistons have signed Reggie Jackson for 80M/5 Yrs. If Detroit starts winning championships, will he be called Mr. June? |
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Jul-06-15
 | | Phony Benoni: I remember a book called "Percentage Baseball", published around 1960, which suggested that no pitcher should go more than three innings. Basically, once through the lineup. It would never work, of no, since nobody would ever want to start a game. |
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Jul-06-15
| | WannaBe: Jon Lester just got a hit!!!
Phony Benoni chessforum |
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Jul-06-15
| | Phony Benoni: Newest entry for the Home Run Derby!
It had to happen sooner or later. No matter how bad a hitter they might be, a major league pitcher is a good enough athlete to make contact once in a while. And as long as you make contact, accidents can happen. |
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Jul-06-15
| | WannaBe: Is after 6 innings too early?! Lester have 1BB 0 H against the red hot Cardinals at Wrigley. |
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Jul-06-15
| | WannaBe: No-no over... |
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Jul-06-15
 | | Penguincw: Not to worry though. Jon Lester still has as many hits today as the entire St. Louis team. Later today in SF, Chris Heston will face the New York Mets. He had a very special performance last time he faced the Mets. |
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Jul-06-15
 | | perfidious: Jon Lester at the bat, aka <Cap'n Awesome> as he totes a career OPS of .030 after that hit. |
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| Jul-07-15 | | Jim Bartle: Lackey should have tried to pick him off. |
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Jul-07-15
| | WannaBe: From ESPN MLB via Elias:
<For the first time ever, no Yankees or Red Sox player is slated to start in the All-Star Game.> |
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Jul-07-15
| | WannaBe: Now Donnie Baseball have lost his marbles. He had SS Rollins batting 9th and the pitcher Garcia batting 8th last night (PHI/LAD). http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/... |
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| Jul-07-15 | | Jim Bartle: Rollins is hitting .212 with a .266 on-base percentage. |
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| Jul-07-15 | | Travis Bickle: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.co... "Holy Cow! Cubs Win, Cubs Win! The Cubbies finally beat those damn Cardinals! Hello Phony this is Harry Carey up in Heaven looking down on beautiful Wrigley Field! I'm drinking warm beers (ewww), & shots with The Babe, Ernie Banks & Leo Durocher... Man can Ruth really pound those shots"! ; P "Well The Cubs will play the Cards the 2nd game of the doubleheader tonight after they clear out the ballpark... Man I yearn for the good ole days when ya could buy a ticket & see 2 games!! Greed, Sharee!! Ha,ha,ha... What's that Babe? I'll drink what yer having". P.S. "Phony, Heaven isn't what it's cracked up to be. The air conditioners always on the fritz & it's really humid up here. If that isn't bad enough they don't stock any ice cold Budweisers! I'm drinking this horrible disgusting Schlitz... Well see ya later pal & take yer time getting here." Your pal, Harry Carey |
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Jul-07-15
| | Penguincw: Joey Votto a triple shy of the cycle.
BTW: Does anyone here know when the All-Star Final Vote winner will be <announced> (I know voting closes on Friday at 4pm). I'm currently running the ChessBookie game, and put up 2 preseason bets on them (MLB Final Vote: AL and MLB Final Vote: NL), and fear that I'll need to put up more bets, since that one probably isn't going to pay. |
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Jul-07-15
| | Phony Benoni: <Penguincw> All I could find out about the Final Vote is that it ends at 4:00 ET on Friday. I suppose the announcement would come soon afterward, but could not find a specific time. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/13505... Harry: I don't get what the problem is. Sounds like a typical summer day in the bleachers at Wrigley. |
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Jul-08-15
| | Phony Benoni: With Miguel Cabrera on the sidelines, the Tigers are desperate for first base help. They just acquired Marc Krauss from Tampa Bay, hitting .133 on the year. http://m.tigers.mlb.com/news/articl... I am not getting excited. |
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Jul-08-15
| | Phony Benoni: Just noticed that the Tigers lead the league in both batting average and in double plays hit into. Thinking about this, it might not be that unusual. Higher batting average = more runners = more chances for double plays. More double plays hit into = Fewer at bats = Higher batting average. |
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| Jul-08-15 | | Jim Bartle: Somehow that led me to look at Prince Fielder, who would be a candidate for hitting into a lot of double plays. This year he is leading the AL with 110 hits iin 82 games, and has 38 walks and HBP. Yet he has scored only 41 runs. He has 13 home runs. That means he has been on base 135 times and has scored only 28 times. Can't anybody in the lineup behind him get a hit? |
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Jul-08-15
| | WannaBe: Now, that's some strong wind! Surprised the mascot didn't get blown off top of the dugout. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b... |
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Jul-08-15
| | Penguincw: This was a day or two ago, but as a Dodgers fan, I enjoy this. :) http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2015/07/07... The World Series champions showing you how to play baseball. :) (just mocking, no big deal) |
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Jul-08-15
| | keypusher: <Phony Benoni: Just noticed that the Tigers lead the league in both batting average and in double plays hit into. Thinking about this, it might not be that unusual.
Higher batting average = more runners = more chances for double plays. More double plays hit into = Fewer at bats = Higher batting average.> I remember one of Bill James' breakthroughs was what he called the false equalization of defensive statistics. Bad teams let lots of guys from the other team on base, and so tended to turn lots of double plays. Once he figured out how to adjust for this, it turned out that bad teams were, in fact, worse at turning the double play. One of his theories was one of the main reasons that Ty Cobb's Tigers didn't do better was that they were historically awful at turning the double play. |
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