How Are Those Yankees Bats Doing?
Posted by Steve L. on April 21st, 2008 · Comments (8)
2008 stats, to date, via the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia:
RCAA SEC ISO OWP BPA 1 Red Sox 20 .276 .151 .585 .479 2 Angels 11 .250 .147 .556 .464 3 Rangers 9 .278 .157 .548 .471 4 Rays 6 .264 .144 .530 .449 5 A's 5 .234 .107 .518 .415 6 Yankees 2 .269 .160 .512 .460 7 Tigers 1 .274 .137 .497 .439 8 White Sox 0 .315 .182 .509 .466 9 Blue Jays -2 .265 .111 .485 .429 10 Orioles -3 .288 .150 .483 .465 11 Mariners -5 .261 .144 .477 .434 12 Twins -14 .196 .099 .412 .381 13 Royals -15 .192 .094 .417 .390 14 Indians -23 .239 .116 .378 .414
Despite decent power (ISO, SEC), New York’s overall offensive production has been “middle of the pack” type stuff (RCAA, OWP, BPA) so far this season. Too much “all or nothing” and not enough “anything and often”? Yeah, you could say that.
Okay, this has nothing to do with the post, but Chris Russo actually just said to a caller, “What proof do you have that (Joba) will be a dominating starting pitcher? Never in his career has he been a dominating starting pitcher. Not in Nebraska, not in the minors. You have no evidence he will be a dominating starting pitcher.”
Joba in Nebraska in ’05: 118 IP, 91 hits, 33/130 BB/K, 2.81 ERA. Seems pretty good to me.
Joba’s brief minor-league career: 88.1 IP, 62 hits, 27/135 BB/K, 2.45 ERA.
Joba only had 8 innings at AAA, but in his one high-level stop in AA, he struck out 66 in 40 innings.
I would say he was pretty dominating in the minors.
How exactly do Mike and the Mad Dog make millions of dollars speaking right out of their asses, without even bothering to do a drop of research?
great question, bailey. this is why i refuse to take sports talk, whoever it is on the radio, with a grain of salt.
you have to remember, their job, first and foremost, is to draw ratings. They tick off the yankees fans about Joba, they flood their telephone lines with a ton of calls and get people agrivated that they feel like they have to listen to bash what they have to say next…
but the advertisers dont care, because its all about the numbers.
best thing we can ALL do is just turn them off, and stop calling.
i just said this on LoHud, but it amazes me that in the largest media market in the world, we cant find an afternoon drive sports talk show that is any better than them.
**to take sports talk seriously (and listen with a grain of salt).
Chris Russo actually just said to a caller, “What proof do you have that (Joba) will be a dominating starting pitcher? Never in his career has he been a dominating starting pitcher. Not in Nebraska, not in the minors. You have no evidence he will be a dominating starting pitcher.”
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He said that a few weeks ago as well. It’s been M&MD’s response every time someone calls in on behalf of moving Joba to the rotation.
Although I do think Joba could be a good starter, I have to agree with those that think it would be too difficult to make the move in-season. Ultimately, Joba would be restricted to about 150 innings. Further, sending him down to Scranton to work on his stamina would involve weakening the ever-burdened bullpen even more. Why not use him like Mo Rivera in 1996, when Rivera pitched 107 innings? Or use him like Johan Santana in 2002/2003 when he’d get a spot-start with a 5 inning limit? Surely Girardi can get creative with this, no?
I like MJ’s ideas for the use of Joba but will Girardi make it happen?
I had similar thoughts bailywalk.
Russo also just said that he “knows” that Joba will eventually be the closer.
As for the offensive stats, that is the difference right now between the Yankees and Sox.
back to the topic Steve, the obvious answer here is simply that they’re not getting the hits to fall when it benifiting them the most. they’re hitting into a boatload of DPs and leaving a boatload of guys on. that’s not a particularly hard logic to understand
hmm, a quick glance and i notice that they’re not actually hitting into as many DP as I thought, in fact, most of the top scoring teams have been hitting into even more (including the Jay’s amazing 30 GDP already)
then the answer is pretty simply that they’re managing to simply not hit when guys get into scoring positions.
another issue, of their 20 HR so far, amazingly 15 of them have been solo shots! and the rest..? all 2 run shots lol! i think this might be the single biggest factor, had some of those solo shots gone as 3 run shots or grand slams the outcome would be vastly different.