In the offseason, a number of Camden Depot (http://camdendepot.blogspot.com/2015/01/appreciate-what-miguel-gonzalez-is.html) writers (http://camdendepot.blogspot.com/2015/01/looking-at-miguel-gonzalezs-clutch.html) wrote articles discussing how Miguel Gonzalez has outperformed his FIP. This year has turned out to be no exception so far as he has an ERA of 3.33 and an FIP of 4.60 (http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2015&month=0&season1=2012&ind=1&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=7024) based mainly upon a .235 BABIP (2nd best out of 106) and an 82.2% LOB (7th best out of 106).
What is interesting is that this year he is outperforming based on performance against hitters when runs are in scoring position. He’s faced 54 batters in that situation and he’s allowed 8 walks (2 intentional), 4 home runs and caused 7 strikeouts. This is pretty awful because pitchers that give up more walks than strikeouts usually struggle and giving up a home run every ten batters on average is awful. He’s allowed seventeen fly balls and given up four home runs for an HR/FB of 23.5%. Simply put, those numbers are dreadful. Two of the remaining thirty-five batters have hit doubles which is pretty reasonable and shows that hitters aren’t struggling to hit for power against him when runners are in scoring position. The area where Miggy has excelled is that he’s only allowed one single with runners in scoring position. That’s absolutely incredible and
The new approach helped the Oakland A’s succeed because it was ethical. Billy Beane used numbers to evaluate the players. Numbers matter but can be misleading. By looking closely and understanding what he was doing Billy made good decisions based on numbers. The old approach was unethical because it misjudged the players. In the “old fashion statistics of the players some key important factors were left out. For instance the old statistics did not mention the number of walks a batter earned. This left out information misleads coach’s judgments and resulted in scouts undervaluing players.
Baseball statistics are meant to be a representation of a player’s talent. Since baseball’s inception around the mid-19th century, statistics have been used to interpret the talent level of any given player, however, the statistics that have been traditionally used to define talent are often times misleading. At a fundamental level, baseball, like any game, is about winning. To win games, teams have to score runs; to score runs, players have to get on base any way they can. All the while, the pitcher and the defense are supposed to prevent runs from scoring. As simplistic as this view sounds, the statistics being used to evaluate individual players were extremely flawed. In an attempt to develop more
Felix has always maintained an era around 3, threw a perfect game and has thrown over 2,100 strikeouts. Hernandez shows leadership threw confidence in his game. “My age doesn’t matter. I’m a good pitcher. Once I’m on my game I can’t fail.” When considering threw has only been twenty three perfect games in major league baseball one can see how good Felix really is. Unfortunately, not all inspirational leaders are still with us today.
Baseball players have changed in multiple ways and different aspects have changed the way they play.These aspects could make them better like the technology we have came out with to analyze baseball swings we have learned a lot is the same with golf swings .Baseball has started paying players so much money which changes how they play.Giancarlo Stanton's contract
He had to finish the season 6-for-9 to beat out Matty Alou and win the first of two close NL batting-title races.
Kershaw has achieved what many pitchers dream about many times. In 2011, Kershaw produced a appealing record of 21-5 with an Era of 2.28 and 248 strikeouts made it an easy selection to award Kershaw his First Cy Young Award. Kershaw, had achieved a triple crown, leading pitchers in wins, strikeouts and Era in 2011 to go along with a gold glove award. Clayton Kershaw is the youngest, three time CY-Young award winner, and first NL pitcher to win the MVP award since “Bob Gibson” in 68. Kershaw from 2011 to 2014 has had the lowest earned run average in baseball for four straight years. Kershaw is destined for the Hall Of Fame, as a batter, Clayton Kershaw had a higher on-base percentage as a batter [2.35] than opposing hitters against him [.231].Kershaw is a five time all-star from [2011-2015.] Kershaw has thrown two no hitters in his career, but has never made it to the World Series unlike Justin
practice R.A. worked his butt off and in the games he pitched in, he used all his power, blood, sweat and
However, a lack of motivation inspired hitting .300/.363/.511 with 19 doubles, 26 home runs, 49 walks, and 107 strikeouts that year. Altogether, he hit a .304/.366/.523 that season with 20 doubles, 28 homers. 102 RBI, 50 walks, and 10 strikeouts. He fell on a rough patch, therefore he trained intensively on his pitching, because his teammates needed him to win that season. Nonetheless, the rough patch became a temporary problem as his teammates and staff helped him to improve and his motivation to improve exceeded which ultimately reflect on his stats towards the end of the season.
The Chicago Cubs (Arrieta’s team) record is 26-8. Arrieta has pitched in at least 10 of those games, and in each game he’s pitched in, they have won. He pitches more than an average pitcher, and can pitch more innings that an average pitcher. The Los Angeles Dodgers (Kershaw’s team) record is 18-17. Kershaw has pitched in at least 10 of those games, but has not won each game he’s pitched in. This shows that Jake Arrieta holds his opponents to not score, and gives his offense a chance to gain momentum and score and win. “Arrieta didn't say outright that he was worth more than the seven-year, $175 million contract that the Nationals awarded to Stephen Strasburg earlier this week, but he came close. "I'll let you judge that. Just look at the numbers," he said. When asked if he would be giving the Cubs a hometown discount, he said, "No" while shaking his head. This season, the reigning NL Cy Young winner holds a minuscule 0.84 ERA, 0.74 WHIP, and 37/12 K/BB ratio over 43 innings. As is befitting of those fine numbers, the ace right-hander has jumped out to a 6-0 record. May 11 - 11:53 PM” (http://www.rotoworld.com/player/mlb/5017/jake-arrieta). This quote shows that Arrieta has not only the confidence and mental state to be the best pitcher in the league, but that he also has the performance to back it up.
He has a .315 BABIP when putting pitches in the strike zone into play, while having a .442 BABIP against pitches out of the strike zone. Even more interesting, despite the fact that Schoop has more production hitting pitches out of the strike zone than in the strike zone, he has a 6.3% chance of hitting a home run when hitting a pitch in the strike zone compared to a 4.4% chance of hitting a home run when the pitch is out of the strike zone. Likewise, he has an 8.5% chance of hitting a double when hitting a pitch in the strike zone and an 5.2% chance when the pitch is out of the strike zone. It seems that he has had extreme success hitting singles, but only singles, against pitches out of the strike zone as he has a 33.3% chance of hitting a single on a pitch out of the strike zone compared to a 21% chance when the pitch is in the strike
Galusky finished this season second on the team with a career-best seven home runs and fourth with a .412 on-base percentage and 30 RBIs. He batted .253 with 49 hits and 13 stolen bases in 18 attempts.
Marwin Gonzalez: The switch-hitting 1st baseman for the Astros has been the teams hottest hitter. The multi-talented athlete has played at every position for the Astros except pitcher and catcher. To say he is valuable to the Astros would be an understatement. In 24 games, Gonzalez is batting .266, with 21 RBI's and 9 HR's. Many critics are wondering if he can possibly stay this hot for the remainder of the season, but why not ride out the hot streak while you can. Marwin is only $3000 on Fanduel and $3300 on DK. The 1st base position has a lot of talent, but while his price is so low, he is worth the roster
He was the main cause for most of them. He has set numerous records and is something the game of baseball hasn’t saw yet. He broke the most pitched scoreless innings while he was with the Red Sox. He threw 13 scoreless innings straight. Then with the Yankees he is breaking his own home run record over and over and over again. He first broke the record in 1920 by hitting 54 home runs. His teammate Bill Dickey said,” He hits the ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.” Then the following year he broke his own record and hit 59 home runs. Then only two years ago he shocked the game of baseball again by hitting 60 home runs. The reason for hitting so many home runs is because he’s looking to hit so many home runs. He said,” If I’d tried for them dinky singles I could’ve betted around six hundred.” He is looking towards this season to break yet another record. Maybe even his
The other day, I got into an argument about Rick Porcello. One person made that argument that if you believe in fWAR, Porcello has been good. He’s been worth 8.4 fWAR over the past 3.5 years or about roughly 2.4 fWAR per year primarily due to a strong FIP and the ability to pitch a lot of innings. If one win costs $7.5 million then paying $20 million per year is a slight but not huge overpay. Writers at Fangraphs have also argued that Porcello is underrated (http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-underappreciated-and-evolving-rick-porcello/), that he’s developed nicely into a 3 win player (http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/tigers-and-red-sox-swap-cespedes-and-porcello/) that moving to Boston will make him better (http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/three-things-the-red-sox-will-do-for-rick-porcello/) and that he is worth ((http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/rick-porcellos-upcoming-enormous-payday/) roughly $20 million per year (http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/red-sox-lock-up-rick-porcello/). Paul Swydan, an author for Fangraphs, wrote an article in the Boston Globe suggesting that Porcello is the thirteenth best pitcher in baseball (https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/12/19/red-sox-really-need-get-ace-pitcher/mSX30HHA8zMnh1jVd0XGmO/story.html). On the other hand, I made the argument that Porcello is a slightly better version of Bud Norris. Let me explain why I made that argument and why just using one number to decide a pitcher is worth $100 million isn’t always the best
great deal of skill and patience and he deserves credit for that. Ken Mattingly might not