Saturday, May 18, 2013
Phil Wood: It’s time for baseball to use technology to make sure umps get it right
(washingtonexaminer.com)
Phil Wood’s still honking…who knew?
Read More...This brings us back to balls and strikes, and the case of minor league ump—and big league fill-in—John Tumpane.
Tumpane was behind the plate May 12 when the Nationals played the Cubs.
Tumpane is a Triple-A guy who’s called up when a regular ump has a day off. He started getting major league assignments in 2010 when he was only 27 and apparently believes that close enough is good enough.
When a pitch is so far off the plate that the catcher makes no ...
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1. BourbonSamurai, vassal of the Harpsburg Empire posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:19 PM # hit 0 | hit 0So did Helen Keller. It's at least one day too late.
Funny, McCoy--I was just thinking the exact opposite.
What would be the exact opposite of that: The Cubs calling up Lidge just to tell him that he sucks and they have no interest in him?
Brad Lidge: 12 Plate Appearances Allowed in 2012, during 9th Inning and score tied
Jonathan Papelbon: 7 Plate Appearances Allowed in 2012, during 9th Inning and score tied
Player SV IP ERA+ GTodd Worrell 256 693.2 122 617
Ugueth Urbina 237 697.1 128 583
Brad Lidge 225 603.1 122 603
Gregg Olson 217 672.0 123 622
Brian Fuentes 204 606.2 131 642
Actually these lists are much less interesting for relief pitchers than almost any other kind of player. Within a given era, their records are pretty interchangeable, because the records of decent pitchers are so tightly defined by usage. (Urbina has a few more innings per appearance because he started a few games in his career.) Well, I haven't contributed anything anybody didn't already know. I think I'll go watch some golf now :-D
Precisely.
Actually, it was more "Hmm...the Cubs have a godawful bullpen. But...no."
Urbina's easily the most lethal closer on that list.
Mike Macdougal has already been selected for that job.
If wins and losses are a faulty indicator for evaluating the year-to-year success of starters, then using them for relievers must be beyond meaningless. Would printing Lidge's K/9, BB/9, and/or K/BB ratios be so controversial?
It amused me that the guy they listed the qualifications of Lidge's replacement as having a 9.00 ERA in A and AA.
...in 3 rehab innings. He had a 2.25 ERA in 20 MLB innings before getting hurt.
5 IBB in 9.1 innings is kind of odd. Looks like two of them were the "oh ####, he put a man on 2nd and 3rd, let's set up the DP/force at every base" variety.
Yes, and they would have been better off using those instead of his rehab numbers
My guess is he still would have been out pitched by the eternally underrated Tyler Clippard.
What, too soon?
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