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Monday, May 05, 2008 |
Pickoff Moves
Rocky Mountain Lowe: Rockies 7, Dodgers 2
Derek Lowe owns a 6.23 ERA at Coors Field, but judging from the video I saw of this game (I was at Angels Stadium yesterday afternoon while this one was in progress), Lowe was leaving 'em up, didn't have his sinker working, and was giving up line drive after line drive. Checking his groundball to flyball out ratio, this indeed indicates something is not only amiss with Lowe in Colorado, but thus far all season, as his 3.32 G/F historical rate is well above the 1.94 G/F he's accumulated to date this year. Simply put, Lowe's sinker isn't sinking like it used to, and while a G/F anywhere near two is still a useful pitcher, his 2008 5.72 K/9 is off by almost a full point from his 2007 season of 6.64, though that admittedly was something of an outlier itself (career 5.87 K/9). A guy who misses as few bats (relatively speaking) as Lowe does has to keep that ball down and get batters to beat out grounders to his infield to be effective. It's not clear that Lowe is doing that well so far this year.And yeah, this marked the end of the Dodgers' fun little eight-game win streak. Bummer.
Jay Jaffe Finds A Treasure Trove Of SI Buzzie Bavasi Interviews From 1967
A great find by Jay Jaffe, a series of four Buzzie Bavasi articles:- May 15, 1967: The Great Holdout
- May 22, 1967: Money Makes the Player Go
- May 29, 1967: They May Have Been A Headache But They Never Were A Bore
- June 5, 1967: The Real Secret Of Trading
Full of more than a little bravado, the four-part series offers a revealing window into the tactics of a Reserve Clause-era executive so smug about holding the best cards in the negotiation game that he could afford to lay them on the table for the world to see.
Get To Work, Frank And Arte
... because John Beamer notes you're both underperforming expected revenues, the Angels especially so.Roster Notes
- Chone Figgins is feeling much better today and likely won't need to hit the DL. He had a slight hamstring sprain after a collision with an umpire on Saturday.
- Howie Kendrick will rejoin the team today in Kansas City, which should probably prompt the demotion of Sean Rodriguez.
- Eric Gagne blew his fifth save in a game the Brewers ultimately lost to the Astros, 8-6. Gagne walked in the tying run in the bottom of the ninth. Rotoworld opined that he now has more blown saves (5) than Takashi Saito has saves (4).
- The Hardball Times offered a close-up on Mariners catching prospect Jeff Clement; Derek Carty figured Clement would get a good bit of playing time now that Kenji Johjima has had a poor start. Figuring this is the Mariners, I had to question that, but shockingly, he's received almost every start since he was called up. Not that he's done well so far (.214/.312/.214 in five starts and 16 plate appearances), but it's kind of surprising to see they haven't just thrown him on the bench to rot because they extended Johjima.
Labels: angels, brewers, dodgers, ex-dodgers, history, injuries, recaps, rockies
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