Tuesday Morning Astros, etc. Round Up
by Stephen Higdon on Jun 16, 2009 3:00 AM CDT
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PrintThe final leg of the Lone Star Series gets underway, but I won't dignify it with a link about it:
- The Astos have signed 22 of their 51 selections from the draft including just about all of our top picks. Tag's post also has this to say about Mier:
- JJO checks in with Chris Johnson, who apparently truly understands the value of plate discipline and his lack thereof. Plus JJO throws out this interesting tidbit, which hadn't occurred to be, but is pretty much par for the course:
- Miguel Tejada needs help in getting to the All Star game...geeze leading the NL in batting doesn't get you any respect these days...or is it playing for an rather relevant team...
- Why FIP isn't a the best, or even a very good, measure of a pitcher's true talent level. Well written and it informs us that Roy Oswalt has been slightly undervalued this year, while Wandy Rodriguez is, apparently, pretty overvalued—suck.
- BtB wants you, or at least some suggestions.
In fact, the Astros are the only team in the National League not to have a player make his major league debut this year.
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It seems to me that his criticism of FIP, can be fixed...
by using x-FIP (which is also a Hardball Times stat). That stat normalizes the HR/FB rate.
Wandy’s comparative FIP, x-FIP, and RA/9:
RA: 3.62 FIP: 3.16 x-FIP 3.69
His tRA and tRA*
are 3.96 and 4.36, respectively though. That’s a more substantial difference on stats that are more thorough than xFIP.
The Crawfishboxes
A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
by Stephen Higdon on Jun 16, 2009 10:25 AM CDT up reply actions
what am I missing?
the link you posted indicates a tRA of 3.04, tRA+ of 136, and tRA* of 4.10 for Wandy in 2009.
You're missing nothing
I read the wrong year…epic fail.
The Crawfishboxes
A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
by Stephen Higdon on Jun 16, 2009 5:43 PM CDT up reply actions
also the fact that the league tRA is a rather high 4.71...
makes me think that these stats are directly comparable.
Ortiz implies that the Astros should have called up Chris Johnson.
But look at his numbers at Round Rock so far.
.730 OPS.
Isolate power (ISO): .117
K rate: 23.9%
BB rate: 2.6%
He has a lot of areas to improve in order to show he belongs at the ML level.
i think JJO
would be helped out a lot if we pointed him to minor league reference, fangraphs, etc….
by Evan Hochschild on Jun 16, 2009 10:43 AM CDT up reply actions
yeah
and those damn bloggers in their mothers’ basements are screwing up sports, too.
Your friendly neighborhood Dreamshake mod.
Edwin Maysonet
While JJO’s comment that the Astros organization is the only NL team not to have a player makes his MLB debut in 2009 is technically correct, it is a bit misleading.Okay -Edwin Maysonet did play in 7 games as a September 2008 callup – but this year is his first serious playing time in the Majors.
I agree with Clack’s assessment of Chris Johnson (and I favored letting Johnson start third base for the Astros out of spring training – at least until the Astros acquired Jeff Keppinger)
Astros fan for life
by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 16, 2009 3:06 PM CDT reply actions
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