Recently posted article by Tom H. Dave Bush struggled in his outing last night and complained of arm fatigue after being erratic and awful for AA-Huntsville last night. That means Mike Burns will make a start. If he’s out for any extended period of time, maybe even I’d advocate trading for a nice pitcher.
Manny Parra made his first start today after a four-start stint in AAA where he did pretty darn well compared to his big league disaster. His peripherals aren’t quite there yet (19K, 13BB, 24 2/3 innings pitched), but he did a good job of keeping the ball in the park and on the ground. He’s [...]
Lost in all this talk about the destruction of Milwaukee’s starting rotation has been the recent slide offensively. Outside of the Cleveland series, the Brewers have scored 4 runs or less 14 times this month. For reference, they did this 12 times in April and 16 times in May (note that this month still has [...]
Here’s a little tidbit I saw in the Journal-Sentinel: Assistant general manager Gord Ash said it’s becoming evident that the Brewers won’t be getting a contribution from left-hander Chris Capuano this season. Capuano remains in Arizona, undergoing a throwing program after his second “Tommy John” reconstructive elbow surgery in May 2008. “He threw a bullpen [...]
So, The Hardball Times has a neat stat looking at how “cluch” each hitter has been so far this year. “Clutch,” in this case, is produce from Bill James’ formula. I’ll let THT explain: “Clutch” is the name we’ve given to the portion of Bill James’s Runs Created formula that includes the impact of a [...]
…isn’t going much better than his Major League starts. 6 innings, 4 hits, 2 runs (1ER), 4 K’s and 4 walks. 114 pitches. That doesn’t sound like anything dominating. He still has a few more starts, so at least only giving up two runs is encouraging.
First I said Bill Hall will revert back to 2006 Bill Hall and put up a drastic improvement. Well, that’s gone to hell, since the great majority of his secondary stats have gotten worse and he’s become a replacement-level player (even against lefties, it seems now). I’ll be changing the title on the main page [...]
The world lost a baseball legend today with the passing of Harry Kalas. Kalas was probably my personal favorite announcer and arguably the second most important baseball announcer outside of Dodgers great Vin Scully. I’ve always had a beef with the Phillies and Philadelphia in general (I’m still not over 4th and 26), but there [...]
Using the Baseball Musings Lineup Simulation tool, here’s a quick look at what the offense will do in 2009. Note that these numbers are all CHONE projections, with one objection: I’m predicting Bill Hall will do much better than his projections, considering he’s due for a BABIP correction year and I have a good feeling [...]
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