An Attempt At Early Season Rationality
by Sky Kalkman on Apr 8, 2009 4:20 PM EDT
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PrintI'm not going to write one of those early season articles about how everyone's overreacting to a few games' or a few weeks' worth of performance data, because I think you'll be as sick of reading them as I am of writing them very shortly. But I'd like to give something a try, to see how we can do at it:
Over the next few days, let's keep our eyes peeled for players whose stats are pretty bad, but who appear to be playing well. This might include pitchers who give up shoe-string homeruns or hitters who suffer from a few at'em line drives.
On the flip side, let's see if we can spot any players with good stats that might be getting lucky -- even luckier than we'd assume from a 0.00 ERA or .600 batting average.
Throw your observations in the comments. I'm not really sure what will come of this, but hopefully some discussion from an uncommon perspective will satisfy enough of us.
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Eric Chavez has been lucky
he hasn’t been injured/dead yet.
Bobby Crosby has been lucky too. He hasn’t played much. Does that count?
"If Bowden was a general contractor, he'd build houses with nine bedrooms, six garages, no bathrooms, and half a roof."
Robinson Cano
Has 2 walks in his first game. either that’s a good sign of him improving, or the signs of impending doom, given that the Yankees already lost their first 2 game, it’s probably the later.
Soriano starts out on one of his hot streaks
Milton Bradley is patient and appears very much in control at the plate. Intense, too. He’s better than I thought he’d be, not many guys have an eye like his.
Adam Jones (4 for 6, 2B, 3B, 2BB) is lucky
…that he’s batting between Brian Roberts (4 for 8, 2B, 2BB) and Nick Markakis (5 for 7, 2B, HR, BB).
But it is still his breakout year, right on schedule.
AndHedges: soo... when do I get to throw a couple of pitches and complain about "tightness?"
Mets
Pelfrey looked very good, after that horrendous first inning everyone is talking about.
Santana topped at 94mph, unusual for him this early…he missed a lot of bats but the zone too.
Looking at Perez now – lot of walks, hard contact = the usual + velocity a bit down…ick.
Jon Lester looked way better than his line, up until his final pitch (a home run on 3-1 to Pena) of the night.
Saving countless runs with my defense.
by Sam Miller OCR on Apr 9, 2009 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Glen Perkins
8 innings 4 ks 2 ws 1 r.
And in the same game,
Jarrod Washburn
8 innings 4 ks, 1 w 0 r.
Pitcher’s duel? Or duel of overaggressive hitters finding ways to make outs on 88 mph fastballs? Only time will tell.
by lookatthosetwins on Apr 9, 2009 3:50 PM EDT reply actions
Those are two solid defenses -- any obvious good plays?
Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.
Gutierrez apparently made a nice diving catch.
by R.J. Anderson on Apr 9, 2009 9:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Cahill
Was extremely lucky to get away with the runs he gave up.
3.6 ERA, 2.0 WHIP
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" -Bill Watterson
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