Tuesday, May 04, 2004 |
What Kind Of Fool Do You Take Me For?
Sele worked himself into the rotation by allowing one run over his last seven innings of relief before his solid start Saturday, though Scioscia indicated the Angels would have taken Ortiz out of the rotation even if Sele had struggled. Scioscia said he did not regret starting the season with Ortiz in the rotation even though Sele had outperformed him in the spring.Lessee:"Aaron's throwing the ball better now than he did in the spring," Scioscia said. "His couple of outings in relief definitely worked toward getting him to where he needs to be. Everything from his command to his consistency has improved."
| Spring Training | 2004 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | ERA | IP | K/9 | BB/9 | K/BB | ERA | IP | K/9 | BB/9 | K/BB |
| Ortiz | 6.66 | 24.1 | 4.44 | 2.96 | 1.50 | 9.28 | 21.1 | 7.59 | 4.22 | 1.80 |
| Sele | 4.24 | 17 | 5.29 | 1.06 | 5.00 | 3.52 | 15.1 | 5.28 | 3.52 | 1.50 |
What's surprising is that Ramon's peripheral stats actually improved in the regular season, where Sele pretty much stayed consistent with his recent years numbers, except that he's now giving up a lot more walks. A K/9 in the low 5's would be a big improvement over last year's awful 3.92. No, the real thing killing Ortiz is his team-leading 16.88 H/9, indicating a pitcher in bad luck... but given his performance, maybe not. He's getting his strikeouts but somehow is managing to find a lot of bats. Regardless, the spring numbers for both pitchers showed which way the team should have gone, and Scioscia's comments don't excuse the four losses they absorbed with Ortiz.
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