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peter It seems that Mossi was a pretty good pitcher who happened to have amazingly angular ears. The link here is to a site that Don and his family might find offensive, because he had rather distinctive features, but explains why he’s suddenly the subject of some art.
I’m also going to try to remember to have a sense of humor about the way some schmoes might depict how I look. Since it’s nothing I can control.
The hed makes it sound radical, but this is really a quite useful and meaningful tweak. If you want to know how many batters a pitcher strikes out and walks (and you do), better measures are the percentages of each outcome compared to batters faced. The writer says the average pitcher strikes out 15 percent of batters faced and walks eight percent.
I’ve always tried to make this adjustment on the fly, when doing analysis, but this is a good argument for using the real numbers as a percentage rather than the per game ones.
Snarky, yes, but oddly not mocking. Almost sentimental, and oddly compelling perhaps because Griffey is the NL’s best right-fielder this year? I can’t believe I’m linking to the Onion, and not because it’s ha-ha.
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In this week’s joint, we discuss having too many second basemen, the wisdom of swapping Jose Reyes (and for whom), contradictions of Contreras and a secret story. Enjoy.
I’m mostly saying this because he’s on my Tout Wars team
He pitched seven excellent innings tonight. The sort of innings I expect from him here on out. But he was matched by the ace, Roy Oswalt. Of course you expect that.
What rankles is that after he comes out his crony, Ryan Franklin stumbles through an inning before the Cards seize on the Astros the way a child grabs for candy.
But my point isn’t about the Astros’ surrender. It’s about the fact that he rules say that Ryan Franklin, who got three outs, deserves the win, rather than Wainwright, who got 21. If Wainwright wasn’t on my team I’d simply smile and say, Grow up, but I don’t think it’s wacky to question why the Win rule so misrepresents who the best pitchers are.
I tried to blog about the whole A-Rod lapdance thing yesterday, but the system was down. Let me just say that I can’t think of single reason except venality for the NY Post to run that litany of A-Rod’s appearances in strip clubs. Except, of course, to tittilate. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it is what it is.
This story on Yahoo, which I think comes from Reuters because it is unattributed (though I could be wrong about that), seems to be making the argument that TO shouldn’t get his signing bonus for skipping voluntary workouts. Emphasis on Voluntary.
The reporter seems to know this. Other players who skipped the Voluntary workouts are also listed, though there may be a finger wagging there, too.
I like to think that if they actually had to kill trees to print this stuff someone would try to save the planet, at least a little.
But I’m an optimist.
In the meantime, try to avoid the crap.
Rotoman
Who knew CBGBs was the minor leagues?
Jeff Passan, as always, is much more interesting on the Elijah Dukes case than the headline suggests. There’s no reporter doing a better job of getting at the game, I don’t think.
As for Dukes, who is playing in the big leagues now because they wouldn’t have him back in Triple-A, it is a judgment call when to release him for his offenses. But it can’t be the right message to let him play after he sent those message to his estranged wife.
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Underachieving pitchers, underachieving hitters, and underachieving teams are the subject of this week’s column. It seems that not many write in about their good fortune. Figure out how to measure your bad fortune in this week’s Ask Rotoman.
I got curious about the prognosis for gastroenteritis after it soundeed like he was ready to play Monday, but—as Rotowire put it—”suffered a set back during batting practice.” So, here are some disgusting detail to mull over as he heads to the DL.
Also note that a person with a long history of drug use and an impaired immune system is more likely to have a strong reaction to the virus than someone with a healthy immune system.