Monday, May 20, 2013
Joe Maddon calls ump’s position ‘baseball anarchy’
(www.tampabay.com)
Is this the MLUA
Or is this the MLBPA
Read More...Rays manager Joe Maddon insisted Monday he was right — and the umpires were wrong — in the interpretation of replay rules on Sunday, saying it was “baseball anarchy” and “sandlot” for crew chief Gerry Davis to “make stuff up on the field.”
But an MLB review found that that Davis did follow guidelines properly in awarding the Rays’ Matt Joyce a home run.
...“Regardless of what they say, that rule is not in the book where you can change a double to a ...
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1. Austin posted on September 22, 2012 at 02:55 AM # hit 0 | hit 01,404 is just insane, especially for 2003, when strikeouts were noticeably lower than they are now.
Pitcher...................K......IP
Kerry Wood...........266....211
Mark Prior.............245....211
Matt Clement........171....202
Carlos Zambrano....168....214
Shawn Estes.........103....152
Kyle Farnsworth.......92.....76
Mike Remlinger (!)....83.....69
Joe Borowski...........66.....68
Juan Cruz...............65.....61
Antonio Alfonseca....51.....66
no one else with more than 30 K
Those Dusty staffs always K'd tons of guys but Dusty was consistent in his feelings about BBs. The 2003 Cubs also led the NL in walks (in the bad way) while Cub batters were 14th.
Cub pitchers, rank in Ks, rank in BBs (other way around just to confuse you), Cub batters rank in BBs
2003 1, 16, 14
2004 1, 9, 14
2005 1, 13, 16
2006 1, 16, 16
That's the Baker Cubs conundrum in a nutshell. His teams certainly seemed to reflect his expressed attitude towards walks.
With the Reds, things have been much more normal:
2008 4, 8, 8
2009 12, 8, 11
2010 11, 6, 9
2011 12, 13, 6
2012 5, 3, 8
Can't have players clogging the bases.
Top 100 teams in Pitching K, prior to this year.
Striking out pitchers is clearly a huge advantage. The Yankees (now Rays) were 20th.
The Batting K record is 1,529 by the 2010 D-Backs. Oakland currently leads 2012 with 1,277.
The top 22 spots are all post-2000.
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