Cashman’s Bullpen Of Doom ™
Posted by Steve L. on June 12th, 2009 · Comments (4)
Here’s a couple of different ways to look at bullpen performance, in the A.L., to date, with the stats via Baseball-Reference.com’s Play Index Pitching Game Finder.
First, games “lost” this season where the “L” was credited to a reliever:
Tm Year Games Link to Individual Games +---+----+-----+-------------------------+ LAA 2009 13 Ind. Games CLE 2009 12 Ind. Games SEA 2009 11 Ind. Games OAK 2009 11 Ind. Games KCR 2009 11 Ind. Games NYY 2009 10 Ind. Games MIN 2009 10 Ind. Games CHW 2009 9 Ind. Games BAL 2009 9 Ind. Games TOR 2009 8 Ind. Games TBR 2009 8 Ind. Games TEX 2009 7 Ind. Games DET 2009 7 Ind. Games BOS 2009 6 Ind. Games
Next, games where a team had a reliever allow four or more baserunners during his appearance:
Tm Year Games Link to Individual Games +---+----+-----+-------------------------+ OAK 2009 27 Ind. Games CLE 2009 27 Ind. Games TEX 2009 26 Ind. Games BAL 2009 26 Ind. Games DET 2009 25 Ind. Games LAA 2009 24 Ind. Games NYY 2009 21 Ind. Games TOR 2009 19 Ind. Games SEA 2009 19 Ind. Games KCR 2009 19 Ind. Games CHW 2009 19 Ind. Games TBR 2009 18 Ind. Games MIN 2009 15 Ind. Games BOS 2009 15 Ind. Games
Granted, these cuts are not the “end-all and be-all” measures of bullpen performance. Yet, if you believe the theory that the Boston Red Sox have a great bullpen, it’s interesting to see how well they register in these views – and how close the Yankees are to being the worst in the league (in this rankings).
it amazes me that there’s bullpens that have performed worse than the yanks as far as any metric goes
The title of this entry gives me an excuse to post one of my favorite commercials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmZRDUO1wGQ
i wonder where all the people who lauded girardi for his bullpen handling have gone
@ Jake1:
on this blog? i dont recall anyone praisin the general