Monday, May 20, 2013
Mackey: Quality of Twins’ defense has garnered mixed reports
(www.1500espn.com)
Wonder if this includes yesterday’s gripping Trevor Ploof…
Read More...But those numbers don’t tell the whole story.
Advanced defensive metrics tell us what our eyes have likely suggested all season—that the Twins’ defense, for the most part, has very limited range.
It’s true that Twins fielders, collectively, don’t make many errors on balls hit to their range radius—but that radius is not very large. And it’s impossible for a fielder to make an error on a ball he can’t get to.
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1. Boxkutter posted on August 18, 2012 at 01:49 PM # hit 0 | hit 0In seventh place on the list is Dave Tomlin's disastrous 1978 season with the Reds, where he gave up a buttload of runs: 54, in just 62.1 innings. Only 40 were earned, but that's still a bloated 5.78 ERA (62 ERA+)...for a reliever. (EDIT: also 16 inherited runners scored, for a total of 70, or over 10 runs/9 IP. Yikes.) He finished with a -3.2 WAR, which along with Blass in '73 are the two worst pitcher WARs since WW2.
Oh, and Tomlin's won/loss record that year? See for yourself.
He just knew how to win, he was the Jack Morris of relief pitchers.
Blackie is dead last in WAR this year, although only slightly ahead of Ervin "What the #### happened to me?" Santana. Because seriously, what the #### happened to Ervin Santana?
In fact, granting that pitchers are always a bit erratic, it's pretty odd that the five worst pitchers by WAR (total "contribution" of -8.9 WAR) were worth a total of +8.5 WAR last season. They've gone from averaging nearly two wins in value to subtracting that much.
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