Since I’m seeing this thrown around a lot, no we can’t send Andruw Jones back to AAA even though he never used up his option years. Once a player has more than three years of service time, he can refuse any assignment.
Congrats to Blake DeWitt for his first career home run. He’s actually putting up solid numbers now (.295/.382/.436), albeit with a BABIP that’s 120 points higher than expected. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.
For those of you who still hate Jim Tracy, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette talks about Nate McLouth’s breakout (he’s hitting .323/.411/.606 this year), and how Jim Tracy buried him during his tenure as the Pirates manager by benching him for Pierre-a-likes Chris Duffy and Nyjer Morgan.
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I’ll never not hate Jim Tracy.
Tango and Cash - May 6, 2008
BABIP
His LD% is only 8%. I was shocked when I looked it up. I’ve never seen a LD% that low below from a position player. What is the formula that translates LD%, GB% and FB% into expected BABIP? I know there is one for LD% + .120 (or something close to that), but I’ve seen one that also took into consideration GB% and FB%, of course FB% didn’t carry much weight. Thanks.
vr, Xeifrank
Xeifrank - May 6, 2008
Off the top of my head, it’s something like .3GB%.18OFB%.75LD%+.01IFB% on balls in play.
Andrew - May 6, 2008
Nerd.
Tango and Cash - May 6, 2008
Just out of curiosity....
how much did the Dodgers bribe Bud Selig to be able to face Oliver Perez and make the Dbacks have to face John Maine and Johan Santana?
DbacksSkins - May 6, 2008
isn't
Maine penciled for Wednesday..that is a blessing that we miss johan though
Ollie - May 6, 2008
And probably a bit less than the money you wasted on signing Eric Byrnes! Zing!
Tango and Cash - May 6, 2008
We will
sink the Maine in daylight.
I’ve got 4 tickets I can’t use for tomorrows day game. If anyone wants them post it.
Phil Gurnee - May 6, 2008
DeWitt
Happy to see you giving the kid somewhat of a break (kind of back-handed though…). While I have to believe your May 4th comment was more out of frustration at the treatment of LaRoche, I believe DeWitt deserves better from you. While he may not perform to the potential of LaRoche, an OBP of .398 and a OPS of.886 (this is after 28 games…the numbers should be better after this week) aren’t bad for a AA player thrown into the Show.
bobmac - May 7, 2008
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