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Tuesday, May 10, 2011 |
Some Bullety Stuff
- Beyond The Boxscore has its preliminary 2011 defensive catcher ratings out. Hank Conger and Rod Barajas are both in the upper half, while Jeff Mathis is one of the worst, as is (surprisingly) ex-Dodger, current Yankee Russell Martin. #1? Baltimore's Matt Wieters.
- Rafael Furcal is nowhere near ready for a rehab stint, according to MLB.com's Ken Gurnick. (Via Aaron Gleeman at NBC's Hardball Talk blog.)
- Maury Brown says the Astros sale is down to the details, and should complete soon. Jim Crane will buy the club for $680 million.
Labels: analysis, angels, astros, dodgers, injuries, ratings, sabermetrics
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 |
Pickoff Moves
It's Official: Jed Hoyer New Padres GM
Per the Padres' website."I'm so excited for this incredible opportunity ... My goal is to build a consistent winner, year in and year out, for the city of San Diego. It's a clear goal. I want to make sure we can win consistently, and I'm incredibly lucky to have the pieces in place already, with a really good young core and a good farm system."Tracy Ringolsby has a piece on the front office changes in both San Diego and Toronto.
MLB Postseason Ratings Up 15% Over Last Year
So says Maury Brown; the Yankees being in a longer series against the Angels certainly couldn't have hurt. In New York, ALCS Game 6 trounced the Sunday night Giants NFL game.Baseball America Releases Its Angels Draft Report Card
No surprise that Mike Trout leads this list with a huge Arizona League season; something I didn't know: "Trout has the tools to be a plus center fielder."Labels: angels, draft, front office, padres, ratings, tv
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 |
Three From Maury Brown
- Overlooked yesterday: TBS's coverage of MLB's Division Series was their highest-rated programming in that network's history.
- MLB announces umpiring crews: crew chief Tim McClelland with Dale Scott, Jerry Layne, Fieldin Culbreth, Laz Diaz and Bill Miller in the ALCS, and crew chief Randy Marsh with Gary Cederstrom, Tom Hallion, Ted Barrett, Bruce Dreckman and Sam Holbrook in the NLCS.
- In case you're disappointed at the fact that there's only one lousy World Series going on this year, MLB has announced a Ken Burns-length 20-volume DVD set of selected World Series dating back to the 1943 tilt.
Labels: postseason, ratings, tv, umpires
Friday, December 28, 2007 |
Dayn Perry Ranks The Top Pitching Duos
Via Halos Heaven, Dayn Perry sets out a strange list of what he considers to be the top ten pitching duos in baseball today. It's strange because he gives more weight to rate stats than durability, proof of which comes when he ranks the Twins' Santana/Liriano combo third overall despite the fact that they pitched only 219 innings between them (edit: ... and all of them by Santana!). The full list follows:
Tampa Bay Twins completely fell off the list, in San Francisco's case mostly because Lincecum wasn't as good as Perry represented. With the Rays' Shields, his problem was the longball, tallying 28 in 2007, tying him for third in the league with John Danks, behind first-place Twins starter Johan Santana). Likewise, Kazmir coughed up quite a few taters (18) that hurt his numbers.
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- ARI: Brandon Webb, Dan Haren
- CLE: C.C. Sabathia, Fausto Carmona
- MIN: Johan Santana, Francisco Liriano
- SDP: Jake Peavy, Chris Young
- SFG: Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum
- LAD: Brad Penny, Chad Billingsley
- LAA: John Lackey, Kelvim Escobar
- PHI: Cole Hamels, Brett Meyers
- TBD: Scott Kazmir, James Shields
- ATL: John Smoltz, Tim Hudson
- SDP: (73.7 VORP) Jake Peavy, Chris Young
- CLE: (71.3 VORP) C.C. Sabathia, Fausto Carmona
- ARI: (64.9 VORP) Brandon Webb, Dan Haren
- ATL: (63.1 VORP) John Smoltz, Tim Hudson
- LAD: (58.5 VORP) Brad Penny, Chad Billingsley
- LAA: (57.3 VORP) John Lackey, Kelvim Escobar
- BAL: (47.8 VORP) Erik Bedard, Jeremy Guthrie
- BOS: (47.4 VORP) Josh Beckett, Curt Schilling
- CHA: (47.3 VORP) Mark Buehrle, Javier Vazquez
- TBA: (39.0 VORP) Scott Kazmir, James Shields
Update: I totally screwed up on Minnesota, forgetting that Carlos Silva was a free agent signed by the Mariners this offseason. His absence drops the Twins utterly off this list and moves Tampa Bay back up, albeit their starting two is almost a full win worse than the Chisox, Red Sox, or Baltimore. Liriano gets no love because he didn't pitch a single inning in 2007, and it's questionable what he'll bring to the table in 2008.
Labels: ratings, sabermetrics
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