In light of Inge taking over the full time role behind the plate in Detroit, I thought I’d have a peak at who the top catchers are thus far in ‘08. A drafting principle I stick by every year is leaving the last pick for my catcher slot. In a points league, there’s simply no [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 30, 2008
20/20 Club
Remember when membership to the vaunted 20/20 club was an accomplishment to revere? The table below outlines those crossing the threshold over the last calendar year, separated by those who nearly made it.
In The Club
Hanley Ramirez: the Roto Authority made a case for Hanley going #1 in next year’s draft, and the numbers above [...]
July 28, 2008
Edwin Encarnacion
Patrick DiCaprio at The Fantasy Baseball Generals noted the “special” season Edwin Encarnacion is having in Cincinnati, whereby his RBI total (41) is completely out-of-whack with his 19 home runs. Of those with 19 or more HR’s, only Hanley Ramirez has a worse RBI/HR total. This is worth nothing more than trivia, as RBI’s reflect [...]
July 27, 2008
Broken Images
I’m a heavy Firefox user. In fact, the only time I bust out Internet Explorer is when I use work-specific applications which don’t support the Mozilla browser. It is this omission that has caused me a bit of grief in my posting - for some reason Firefox formats my posts beautifully while IE is dropping [...]
July 25, 2008
Zack Greinke
Chris Mulligan over at Behind The Plate wrote up an article on the recent prospects of Zack Greinke, and he pretty much nails it with the commentary. Greinke is an enigma. In his last 6 starts, his LD% is 5% higher than his seasonal rate and his WHIP has jumped significantly, but his GB% has [...]
July 25, 2008
Closer Extrapolation
While sorting through some legacy pitching stats, I noticed something pretty cool. If you compile numbers from the last 3 year calendar years, regular closers who had more than 75 saves threw between 173 - 228 innings. During the last calendar year, starting pitchers in the top third of innings pitched, ripped off between 146 [...]
July 23, 2008
More on BABIP
A post yesterday by ESPN’s Christopher Harris compared hitter’s season BABIP and pitchers’ BIPA against their career lines, suggesting that those with seasonal numbers higher or lower than their career norms are potentially in for a fall or rise. Looking back at my Willie Harris comments, I’ve (painfully) noticed my numbers tables did not show [...]
July 22, 2008
F-Rod: Can He Keep It Up?
As is the news, Francisco Rodriguez is on pace to blaze past Bobby Thigpen’s single season saves record. I never checked the data but every time he takes the mound it seems as though his pitches per inning were quite high. Its as though he voluntarily tempts fate by walking a batter, maybe a single, [...]
July 22, 2008
Now Leading Off….Willie Harris.
While dredging my money league for hidden waiver goodness, I was hoping to unearth a tolerable OF to fill in for a hapless and recently injured Justin Upton (at least I can divert my eyes from this carwreck for awhile). To get a quick look at who’s been hot, I like to query top point [...]
July 22, 2008
Welcome
Welcome! While this site is still a work in progress, I’ve been dying to get some content online because fantasy statistics are a capricious bunch. While baseball stats in general often have a wonderful inclination towards constancy and quo, I want to write mostly about fantasy which relies on exploiting rather immediate data patterns. So [...]
