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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Schoenfield: Scherzer has turned into another Detroit ace

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posted 2 days ago by Repoz to history, sabermetrics, tigers | 20 comment(s)

The Cone of Silence can’t drop on Dan Plesac quick enough.

I still like pitcher wins, warts and blemishes and gaping scars and all. Are pitcher wins perfect? Of course not. Should they be the first recourse in evaluating a pitcher’s performance? Of course not. Should they be discarded into the trash bin of ill-advised statistics, like the game-winning RBI? Of course not.

So I think it’s pretty cool that Max Scherzer is now 10-0, the first pitcher to win his first 10 decisions to begin a ...

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1. ColonelTom posted on January 19, 2012 at 01:57 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

A Pena/Raburn platoon would plug the gap nicely. Career splits:

Pena: .252/.370/.513 vs. RHP
Raburn: .270/.340/.507 vs. LHP

Pena's also a better 1B than Cabrera, so if you use his glove and have Cabrera DH, you gain a bit back there.

Alternatively, just getting a glove off Delmon Young and having him DH instead would be a huge benefit.

2. Hustle-Related Failure posted on January 19, 2012 at 01:59 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Why go out of your way to give VMart credit for an extra 2 WAR via RE24 in paragraph two when you then go on in paragraph three to take that 2 WAR away because it says nothing to the WAR you would have predicted VMart for this year?

3. Hustle-Related Failure posted on January 19, 2012 at 02:25 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

edt: eh, nevermind

4. Walt Davis posted on January 19, 2012 at 02:44 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Is he any relation to Racer X? Cuz I don't think Racer X could hit a curveball.

5. DL from MN posted on January 19, 2012 at 03:20 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

> getting a glove off Delmon Young and having him DH

Call Johnny Damon

6. Cooper Nielson posted on January 20, 2012 at 12:36 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Using purely in-house options:

C - Avila
1B - Cabrera
2B - Santiago
3B - Inge?
SS - Peralta
LF - Raburn
CF - Jackson
RF - Boesch
DH - Young

That's not a terrible lineup, and could potentially even be good, depending on Boesch/Raburn/Young. All of those guys have shown the ability to be productive for extended periods, but rarely for an entire season. 3B is a problem, but that's completely unrelated to the V-Mart injury.

So barring further moves (though further moves seem likely), the impact of V-Mart's injury seems to be that Ramon Santiago will get more PA, and his bat is notably less potent than V-Mart's. However, this offensive downgrade would be offset by a defensive upgrade, as Santiago would be playing more 2B and Raburn will be playing less (big improvement), and Raburn would be playing more LF and Young will be playing less (big improvement).

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Schoenfield: Scherzer has turned into another Detroit ace

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