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Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
The Dead Zone Between The Hot Stove And Pitchers And Catchers
And you thought this was a cobweblog ...
- I started looking at BPro's mind-numbing five part series on their new pitching metric, SIERA (don't ask me what it stands for), which I suppose will replace PECOTA for pitchers. I must say, I'm as baffled as anyone, and while I imagine they were hoping the interregnum between the end of the real hot stove season and pitchers-and-catchers was a good time to launch such a thing, I confess it's just more alphabet soup to me.
- Kendry Morales is a Scott Boras client. Would it have been better if Boras sold Lackey to the Red Sox?
- Chien-Ming Wang is a National, thus ending any speculation that he might become a Dodger. Has there been a bigger drop for any single player in recent memory? I can't think of it...
- Frank Thomas retired, and Jay Jaffe has an appropriate sendoff.
...One can make a reasonable case that Thomas was the AL's best hitter of the Nineties. His .440 OBP was the circuit's best, his .573 SLG was just eight points behind that of Albert Belle and Ken Griffey Jr., and his EqA for the decade trailed only that of Barry Bonds ...
Labels: angels, dodgers, retirements
Comments:
Regarding your rhetorical question about Wang, how about Mulder or Escobar? Seems like it's pretty common for a pitcher to have a couple great years then be seemingly lost for good due to injuries.
I was hoping you'd summarize SIERA, as I haven't had the energy to read up on it myself. Plus my subscription just expired 2 days ago. I haven't decided if it's worth it to re-up or not. BP just hasn't been all that interesting to me for a couple years now, outside Kahrl and Goldstein.
I was hoping you'd summarize SIERA, as I haven't had the energy to read up on it myself. Plus my subscription just expired 2 days ago. I haven't decided if it's worth it to re-up or not. BP just hasn't been all that interesting to me for a couple years now, outside Kahrl and Goldstein.
That might make a good project. There's enough reading for a solid couple hours if you digest it properly.
Mulder's collapse and recently revoked retirement announcement was the subject of a David Pinto brief; David called it "one of the worst trades in [Cardinals] history". I can't disagree.
Mulder's collapse and recently revoked retirement announcement was the subject of a David Pinto brief; David called it "one of the worst trades in [Cardinals] history". I can't disagree.
Absolutely. Can you imagine if Barton had turned out to be half what everyone expected him to be? Beane has received a lot of grief over the last few years after his boy-king veneer melted away, but you have to credit him on bailing on each of the "Big Three" at exactly the right time. Something for Angel fans to think about when they're calling for Reagin's job over letting Lackey walk and screaming for long-term extensions with Weaver and Saunders.
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