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The Everything MLB Thread
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The Yankees just knocked Shields out of the game and Wang has only allowed 2 hits through six. Not tonight Kirby.
And now the Milk-man is up!
The team I alternately root for is off to a surprising 5-1 start: The St. Louis Cardinals as Rick Ankiel now has 3 home runs. Hopefully the whole HGH thing is well in the past as I'd like to see a great season from them.
Agreeing with this comment about Detroit - you can't say anyone is ok after a five game losing streak in the AL. They already have tough competition for the AL Central in the Indians, but then if you consider the AL as a whole the wild card is incredibly competitive too when you think of the other teams that might not win the division (see -> red sox/yankees - one of them isn't winning it).
Baltimore having a .500 season would be a miracle. Not as much of a miracle as the Giants having a .500 season, but close. Did anyone see Ben Sheets mow down the Giants today? I'm feeling good about the BrewCrew right not...unless Sheets gets hurt. Then their done. Thirty starts from him = playoff team. - 20 starts for him = third place in central (behind reds).
The pirates are looking good? The funniest thing about the season so far is that none of these hot teams will likely finish above third in their divisions. And that's being generous, I'm giving the royals a shot here.
The Giants are gunning for that league's worst record like they fucking mean it!
see i said that because they have some players that are very good right now (nady doumit and mclouth)
also i think that if the white sox can take the division this year if detroit continues to have terrible luck
speaking of detroit and the white sox:
white sox won 13-2 against the tigers.
according to espn.com:
GIDP (grounded into double play): M Cabrera 2, I Rodriguez, B Inge, R Santiago
Team LOB (left on base): 7
also i think that if the white sox can take the division this year if detroit continues to have terrible luck
speaking of detroit and the white sox:
white sox won 13-2 against the tigers.
according to espn.com:
GIDP (grounded into double play): M Cabrera 2, I Rodriguez, B Inge, R Santiago
Team LOB (left on base): 7
Santana gets no run support through 7 innings - wait a second.. is that a headline from last year's Twins? Oh never mind, good job Mets, waste a solid outing by Santana just like my good old Twins.
And of course Im not bitter Santana is gone or the Twins dont score more runs!
And of course Im not bitter Santana is gone or the Twins dont score more runs!
Don't forget Cleveland. Two Aces, a lights out middle relief, Sizemore, Hafner. There probably the better overall team then Detroit. I just feel like once Detroit starts hitting...It's gonna be brutal.
Jays sweep the redsox, I was at the halladay vs beckett game, soo good! Frank the Tank with the Grand Slam, leading the AL in RBIs.
Both games they lost have been by one run, I really am liking what I am seeing. Our 3-4-5 hitters are really producing so far, can it keep up though? I am also very excited that we are running more, look for rios to top 25 SB for your fantasy team.
I think its safe to say that our (healthy) rotation is the best in baseball, but CAN they stay healthy is what scares me.
Our pen has givin up 1 run in 13 innings, against Boston and Yankee offenses no less. They should be ok down there. We have depth too.
Both games they lost have been by one run, I really am liking what I am seeing. Our 3-4-5 hitters are really producing so far, can it keep up though? I am also very excited that we are running more, look for rios to top 25 SB for your fantasy team.
I think its safe to say that our (healthy) rotation is the best in baseball, but CAN they stay healthy is what scares me.
Our pen has givin up 1 run in 13 innings, against Boston and Yankee offenses no less. They should be ok down there. We have depth too.
I hope the Tigers can beat up on the Red Sox and not the other way around!
The hitting has to get it in gear very quickly to bail out the below average pitching staff, and their amazingly horrible bullpin. If they can stay in playoff contention by late July-early August, when Joel Zumaya comes back (and I dunno about Fernando Rodney's return), the bullpin will be back to shape and can hopefully get them back in the playoffs...............and then pull a Yankess move and lose in the first round because of lack of starting pitching.
Who here plays fantasy baseball?
I may live closest to the Yankees of all teams and yet I despise them. Go Royals!, Go Red Sox!, Go Cardinals!
Cardinals are now off to a 7-2 start as Albert Pujols hit not only his first home run of the year but his 2nd as well, and yet the Cardinals are ranked 19th on the Power Rankings while the worst-record Detroit Tigers are ranked 6th, go figure...
I get what you're saying, but you don't make huge changes in the power rankings by only what occurs in one week! Only 8-9 games have been played so far in the season, and you just cannot make a huge shake-up in the rankings just by who has had a better opening week.
IMO, Tigers should be lower with them just winning their first game yesterday, but not below the cardinals.............not yet.
Zack Grinke of the Royals..........keep an eye out for him this year. He might have been in the big leagues since 2004, but he's still only 24 years old, and finally through all his injuries and personal problems he's faced in the past two seasons, he could potentially be a 15 game winner this year. Last season, he went 7-7 in his 14 starts, and had an e.r.a. of 3.69 (league average was 4.50) In his rookie season, he had an 8-11 record in 24 starts, but still had a 3.97 e.r.a. (the league average that year was 4.63). So he has the potential to do so, but has got to get run support, which the offense is starting to look much better.
Greinke was amazing thus far this season. Giving up one run in his first start and an eight-inning shutout in his second start. And those two starts were against teams that featured pretty prominent offensive lineups (Tigers and Yanks). I'm glad I took chances and drafted this guy on my fantasy league.
Although I think he's been a pretty popular sleeper pick this year.
Tigers finally get a win, beating the Red Sox... I actually was thinking they would've gone 0-8 for '08 and then start to kick it up afterwards but they got a win already.
I found a site with very advanced statistics on it! I am lost in some of these numbers, but I'm trying my best to get this page fully understood lol! Anyway, here's the web address
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/sortable/
BTW, so far, after glancing at a few of them, the most intersting one is the pitchers expected wins. I guess that is based off their numbers for the year, they calculate a formula and determine how many wins a pitcher is supposed to have without the addition of run support. Just to prove how bad the Royals offensive have been, from last year, Gil Meche had a 9-13 record and a 3.67 e.r.a., but based off his numbers, his expected wins was 13.3.
The most shocking was Matt Cain of the Giants. He had a crazy 7-16 record, BUT his e.r.a. was 3.64! That is almost a whole point below the league average, yet his win percentage was 30.4%. According to this stat, he was expected to win 13.6 times. Guess who had the exact same number? Johan Santana! Also, Cain was expected to lose only 9.4 times, yet he lost a whopping 7 more times!
Go here, and the expected wins should have a red arrow below it [the stat reads E(W)], and the expected losses are to the right of it. I was shocked to see that a stat like this even existed, but the formula shows how they truly performed if run support did not play a role in altering wins and losses.
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/sortable/
BTW, so far, after glancing at a few of them, the most intersting one is the pitchers expected wins. I guess that is based off their numbers for the year, they calculate a formula and determine how many wins a pitcher is supposed to have without the addition of run support. Just to prove how bad the Royals offensive have been, from last year, Gil Meche had a 9-13 record and a 3.67 e.r.a., but based off his numbers, his expected wins was 13.3.
The most shocking was Matt Cain of the Giants. He had a crazy 7-16 record, BUT his e.r.a. was 3.64! That is almost a whole point below the league average, yet his win percentage was 30.4%. According to this stat, he was expected to win 13.6 times. Guess who had the exact same number? Johan Santana! Also, Cain was expected to lose only 9.4 times, yet he lost a whopping 7 more times!
Go here, and the expected wins should have a red arrow below it [the stat reads E(W)], and the expected losses are to the right of it. I was shocked to see that a stat like this even existed, but the formula shows how they truly performed if run support did not play a role in altering wins and losses.
O_O So far the only teams playing up to expectations of last season's ending are the Angels and Diamondbacks.
Some of those statistics seem hard to apply to anything to me Bran. Batters' Quality of Pitchers Faced is contingent upon the quality of the batters they face, and there is no way to clearly denote that, for instance.
Some of those statistics seem hard to apply to anything to me Bran. Batters' Quality of Pitchers Faced is contingent upon the quality of the batters they face, and there is no way to clearly denote that, for instance.
I knew it wouldn't apply to everybody. I just luckly ran into this, because I was looking for the league's E.R.A. from last year, because I knew the e.r.a of Grinkie and Meche were below the league average despite their record, but I didn't know how much. I googled for it, and I found that site. Bascially, from what I see and learned from my older brother, there are top statistictians that create this complex formulas for these situations. I don't know how some of these statistics could apply too, but the 'expected wins and losses' helps show who gets a lot of run support and who does a good job on a bad team (see Matt Cain).
I just looked over that list, and while I guess it makes sense for guys like Meche, Greinke and Cain...I feel like it doesn't give credit to truly elite pitchers. Honestly 17 expected win from Peavy, with the Giants to feast on in that division? Maybe I'm reading this wrong...actually I think I am. I think the context they are putting it in is something like, "Peavy pitched above his run support".
Is everyone on Smogon from Canada? I think 3/4 of the posts in this thread are "GO JAYS!"
Is everyone on Smogon from Canada? I think 3/4 of the posts in this thread are "GO JAYS!"