We all know that Lombardi has been excellent this year, but his strikeout rate is unbelievable. In 13 innings, he has fanned 28 batters for an incredible 19.4 strikeouts per 9 innings. I’ve never heard of such a thing! Montiel is also spectacular, but his 15.4 Ks per 9 innings pales by comparison.
Speaking of our bullpen, thanks largely to Lombardi and Montiel, our relievers are striking out 12.1 batters per 9 innings while our starters only 9.3. Opponents are also batting .281 against our starters and only .220 against our relievers. The ERA’s for our starters is 5.42 and relievers is 4.49. Relievers are harmed by poor control walking or hitting 7.2 per 9 innings while our starters are walking or hitting 5.3— better, but still not particularly good. We need 4 starters and 4 relievers we can trust. We are far, far short of that.
Among our starters, Fladda has been either very good or very bad. His first, third, and fifth starts were good. His second, fourth, and sixth were bad. In his “good” starts, his ERA is 2.37. In his “bad” starts, it’s 10.95. If he is truly good every other start, we should see the “good” Fladda this Friday.
Cehajic has been much the same. During his first, third, and fifth starts, his ERA is 6.92. In his second and fourth starts, it’s 0.82. His next “even numbered’ start should be this weekend. Can we look forward to a “good” performance?
As to the seven other guys who have started a game, none have gone more than 3.1 innings and, as a group, have a 6.82 ERA as starters.
Over to the hitting side, although he’s still hitting .329 on the season, Mathias Haas is only 2 for his last 16. We need him to turn it around.
Like much of the team, Tanner Chun has struggled recently (3 for his last 24), but two of those four hits were HR’s.
Rasmussen, on the other hand, is on a terrific hot streak, Over the past twelve games, while the rest of the team has hit .221, he’s batted .400, to raise his already solid batting average to .366.
Everyone recognizes that Jackson Linn is having a terrible time at bat, but examining his season to date is interesting. He’s struck out 21 of his 48 official times at bat (44%), which is quite a lot. But he’s got 2 doubles and 2 HR’s among his seven hits, which suggest (with very little data) that when he hits it, it goes a long way. But, oddly enough, while the team as a group is hitting .341 when putting the ball in play (hits divided by at-bats minus strikeouts), Linn is only hitting .259 when he puts the ball in play. That is a very low success rate. So, strikeouts aren’t his only problem. Even putting the ball in play isn’t resulting in base hits.
Defense is harder to quantify but anyone who watches us play realizes our defense is bad. Coach rushes defensive replacements onto the field at four to five positions in almost every game to minimize the problem. But our .964 fielding average is the only well documented, though flawed, recognition of our ineptitude. It’s been several years since we fell below .970. Even our opponents, no great shakes either, are fielding at .971. But our inability to make simple plays, missing the cut-off man, and throwing to the wrong base is hard to quantify. Not getting to balls that should be outs is also a problem.
Anyhow, those are some stats that I found interesting. Let’s add some better ones.
Roll Wave!!!
Speaking of our bullpen, thanks largely to Lombardi and Montiel, our relievers are striking out 12.1 batters per 9 innings while our starters only 9.3. Opponents are also batting .281 against our starters and only .220 against our relievers. The ERA’s for our starters is 5.42 and relievers is 4.49. Relievers are harmed by poor control walking or hitting 7.2 per 9 innings while our starters are walking or hitting 5.3— better, but still not particularly good. We need 4 starters and 4 relievers we can trust. We are far, far short of that.
Among our starters, Fladda has been either very good or very bad. His first, third, and fifth starts were good. His second, fourth, and sixth were bad. In his “good” starts, his ERA is 2.37. In his “bad” starts, it’s 10.95. If he is truly good every other start, we should see the “good” Fladda this Friday.
Cehajic has been much the same. During his first, third, and fifth starts, his ERA is 6.92. In his second and fourth starts, it’s 0.82. His next “even numbered’ start should be this weekend. Can we look forward to a “good” performance?
As to the seven other guys who have started a game, none have gone more than 3.1 innings and, as a group, have a 6.82 ERA as starters.
Over to the hitting side, although he’s still hitting .329 on the season, Mathias Haas is only 2 for his last 16. We need him to turn it around.
Like much of the team, Tanner Chun has struggled recently (3 for his last 24), but two of those four hits were HR’s.
Rasmussen, on the other hand, is on a terrific hot streak, Over the past twelve games, while the rest of the team has hit .221, he’s batted .400, to raise his already solid batting average to .366.
Everyone recognizes that Jackson Linn is having a terrible time at bat, but examining his season to date is interesting. He’s struck out 21 of his 48 official times at bat (44%), which is quite a lot. But he’s got 2 doubles and 2 HR’s among his seven hits, which suggest (with very little data) that when he hits it, it goes a long way. But, oddly enough, while the team as a group is hitting .341 when putting the ball in play (hits divided by at-bats minus strikeouts), Linn is only hitting .259 when he puts the ball in play. That is a very low success rate. So, strikeouts aren’t his only problem. Even putting the ball in play isn’t resulting in base hits.
Defense is harder to quantify but anyone who watches us play realizes our defense is bad. Coach rushes defensive replacements onto the field at four to five positions in almost every game to minimize the problem. But our .964 fielding average is the only well documented, though flawed, recognition of our ineptitude. It’s been several years since we fell below .970. Even our opponents, no great shakes either, are fielding at .971. But our inability to make simple plays, missing the cut-off man, and throwing to the wrong base is hard to quantify. Not getting to balls that should be outs is also a problem.
Anyhow, those are some stats that I found interesting. Let’s add some better ones.
Roll Wave!!!
