More Notes N' Stuff

[DOUGHBOYS]

You know what is really hurting some NFBC owners?
A shortage of starting pitching.
Let me explain.
We have had Syndergaard, Hamels, FHernandez, Price, JGray, ShMiller, Shields, JuGuerra, AaSanchez.
These pitchers have not been replaced by suitable 6th pitchers or prospects. It is still too early to start the clocks on most prospects.
Who do we get as 'replacements?
RMontero for Thor, Claudio for Hamels, DeJong for Felix, Wright for Price, Marquez for Gray, Shipley for Shelby, Pelfrey for Shields, Garza for Guerra, Latos for Aa Sanchez.
Like replacing a Corvette with a tricycle.
That is, unless just playing in satelites. There, it seems to be easier.

You know what amazes me about this whole BAL-BOS thing?
These Major League pitchers can work the corners of a plate, but they can't hit a 6' 4" body standing near the plate?
These pitchers should be tossed or suspended...... For MISSING!
When an umpire decides that a batter is being thrown at, and the pitcher misses him, the batter should be awarded second base.
If you're going to hit a batter, HIT A BATTER!

And then, Gausman hits a BoSox player with a curve ball.
A curve ball!
The only thing I can think about the decision to toss Gausman is that the umpire/owner of Gausman, forgot to take him out of his NFBC lineup and used circumstances to his advantage.
Smart guy!

If Greg Bird had 13 homers at this time.....
And Aaron judge was having a ghost injury so that he can work on hitting skills
It wouldn't surprise us
But, it hasn't happened like that and we are surprised.

What do you call a Yankee right fielder and a Diamondback's 2B?
Judge and Drury

Aaron and a light hitting speedster?
Judge Judy

Some Stuff....

Aaron Judge has 13 homers
The Red Sox have 17

Marwin Gonzalez has eight home runs
Carlos Gonzalez, two.
Correa, Bregman, Beltran, Altuve, Gattis, McCann, and Springer, and every individual on the Astros have less homers and rbi than Marwin Gonzalez.

25 players have stolen five bases
So have the Colorado Rockies
Blackmon and LeMahieu owners, miffed

Ryan Zimmerman has walked just six times this year
Struck out 22 times
Ryan Zimmerman owners don't care

Since the mound to home plate distance of 60' 6" was established in 1893, only two pitchers have struck out as many as 63 batters in their first six starts of a season?

Randy Johnson and now, Chris Sale

You may think that Sale has the best k rate in baseball.
He doesn't.
Danny Salazar has a 13.03 rate. Sale, 12.42
Chris Devenski has a Closer-like k rate of 16.69

Has Jason Heyward 'come back'?
He is the only qualified batter,without at least one double
He has four extra base hits
Only three players have fewer
Pedroia, Bogaerts, and Swanson

Swanson's first name has been changed by some of his owners
For drafting him, they'll say... 'Damn Me' Swanson is up

Marwin Gonzalez quietly set a Major League record of sorts last night.
He has homered in four straight games.
You might say, "No, not a record'.
Well, it is.
Gonzalez is the only player in baseball history to homer in four straight games while starting at four different positions.
The player with the best chance of breaking that record is ...Marwin Gonzalez.
If he plays a different position tonight.

This is more to illustrate the history of bad pitching from a franchise.
Antonio Senzatela won his fourth game last night.
He and Christian Friedrich in 2012 are the only pitchers in Rockies history to win four of their first six games.

CC Sabathia gave up six runs to the Blue Jays last night in two innings.
Dallas Keuchel has given up six runs in six starts.
Ervin 'Magic' Santana has allowed three runs in six starts.

Illustrating that 'WAR' is a misused word by Chris Sale and does not belong in fantasy baseball...
Fernando Rodney's WAR is -0.8
WAR finds him to be an unnecessary evil
Fantasy owners find him to be a very necessary evil.

What is more important for getting a Win...
A pitcher who strikes out a lot of batters or a pitcher who does not walk a lot of batters?
This season, only two of the top 20 in K'ing hitters have four Wins.
Six of the top 20 control artists have at least four Wins.

Hector Neris of the Phillies has 14 strike outs.
This alone, is no big deal.
It is one more strike out than Starter teammate Jeremy Hellickson.
Hellickson's k/9 rate is 3.44, worst in baseball.
An unusual three category hurler for fantasy.
Tragically, he has lost 'Hell Boy' status.

[DOUGHBOYS]

Just want to add something that'll probably turn into, well, I don't know ...

I made the mistake of watching Brian Kenny yesterday. As most of you know, he is a stout believer in sabr numbers.
He hates the rbi stat thinking it is more of an opportunity statistic than the measure of a hitter who is efficient at driving in runs.
He thinks the drawn walk is a God.
Brian Kenny is, essentially, the off field Joey Votto.

As I'm listening to Kenny rail about rbi being an overblown statistic, I am thinking about his almighty base on balls.
Isn't a base on balls a product of opportunity as well?
The statistic does not differentiate from free passes on four pitches received from a wild pitcher or a 14 pitch at bat resulting in a walk.
They are all, just a base on balls.

It is with this in mind that I call for a new baseball statistic. (My wife says we need new baseball statistics like we need more politicians)
Anyway, we need a statistic to separate base on balls.
As is, Wayne Edwards could stand at the plate for six pitches with no intentions of taking his bat off his shoulder and draw a walk.
A hero in Brian Kenny's book.
In mine, just another opportunity for a fellow to take a free ride to first base.
So, here is what I have in mind....
Any seven or more pitch at bat resulting in a base on balls is called an 'Earned Base on Balls' or EBB.
EBB would separate those who get intentional walks (now a walk with zero pitches) and base on balls that come from a wild pitcher or a pitcher who wants to avoid a batter. Great hitters like Trout, Goldschmidt and players through history like Ruth and Bonds receive these types of walks.
And they are known as great OBP players because of this.
In effect, these base on balls are defensive indifference. The defense does not care that the batter is walking. It is their way of avoiding a worse circumstance.
Still, the hitter gets credit, especially in Sabrville.
I believe the EBB stat would open a lot of eyes.
Yes, I'm talking about you, Sabrville, where the base on balls, ANY base on balls, is prayed to five times a day.

While on the subject of walks, I have not mentioned Joey Votto in a long time.
This has nothing to do with Votto taking a base on balls.
This has something to do with Joey Votto, sissy.
I say that because to watch Votto with an 0-2 count is like watching a girl with a mouse under her chair.
Next time you watch a Reds game, hope for an 0-2 count and watch Votto hit.
He chokes up on his bat and makes it look like a twig.
He doesn't swing at the next pitch, he aims his bat towards it with miniscule velocity as if not to hurt the stitching.
Progressively, it has gotten more amusing with each passing year.
Here is your stat of the day...

Joey Votto has clouted 230 lifetime home runs. 4.598 at bats.
Joey Votto has hit one homer on an 0-2 pitch. One.
And that came in 2011.

Now, you might say that Votto is choking up in trying to help his team in not striking out.
He's not helping anybody, but it is funny to watch.
Votto over the last four years has progressively looked funnier and gotten worse as a hitter with a two strike count.
He has hit .163 during that time with two strikes.
And get this...this may be more amazing than his one lifetime homer with an 0-2 count....
Over the last four years, Votto has driven in ONE run with an 0-2 count.
In 153 at bats!
Don't tell him or the Reds.
Watching him right now with an 0-2 count is a classic must-watch.

[NorCalAtlFan]

get off my lawn!

don't you have your own forum

[DOUGHBOYS]

get off my lawn!

don't you have your own forum

Sorry. I'll let you guys go back to shutting up about injuries

[DOUGHBOYS]

Correcting myself.
It has been five years and 180 at bats resulting in Votto's one rbi with an 0-2 count.
Truly amazing.

[KJ Duke]

... I see another Marwin HR in the box score.

[Edwards Kings]

Anyway, we need a statistic to separate base on balls.
As is, Wayne Edwards could stand at the plate for six pitches with no intentions of taking his bat off his shoulder and draw a walk.
A hero in Brian Kenny's book.
In mine, just another opportunity for a fellow to take a free ride to first base.

...but...but...you left out the part where I steal second, third, AND home!