Good post over at Dan & Steve about Yovani Gallardo’s excessive pitch counts and his being the victim of Ken Macha’s abusive management. After his excessive 126-pitch outing on May 25, he’s proceeded to also have starts of 110 pitches, 105 pitches, 116 pitches, 107 pitches, and 118 pitches in consecutive starts. Considering the rest [...]
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 [...]
All of a sudden I’ve been brought back to the days of Ruben Quevedo and Jamey Wright tossing up a consistent array of doubles and gopher balls to the opposition when posting ERAs of 5.76 and 5.35 in 44 total starts and a combined 11-24 win-loss record. In 2002, the Brewers went 56-106. Glendon Rusch [...]
–Take a look at this video. You stay classy, Philadelphia. You know, for all the joking flak that Philly gets for violence in the stands and being the faux City of Brotherly Love, there are quite a few little incidents that back up the stereotype. It’s fun for me to hate Philadelphia because I’m still [...]
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.
Joe Buck got lit up the other day on his television show, and since then everybody’s been blasting his cred. The worst blog on the planet really happy he was embarrased on HBO. Honestly, I don’t see all the hubbub about Buck. He’s a good, solid announcer; he knows the game of football very well; [...]
Now that Doug Melvin has basically confirmed that he’s going to make some kind of move as the trade deadline comes to fruition and the pitching situation has become much murkier. If Melvin is going to make a move in the pitching department, it’s definitely going to come in the next couple of weeks when [...]
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 [...]