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Sunday, August 07, 2011
The Astros on Saturday optioned lefthander J.A. Happ to Class AAA Oklahoma City and placed righthanded reliever Enerio Del Rosario (shoulder strain) on the 15-day disabled list. To fill those roster spots, the Astros recalled righthanded reliever Jeff Fulchino and lefthanded reliever Wesley Wright from Oklahoma City.
Happ is 4-14 with a National League-high 6.26 ERA in 22 starts. In an 8-1 loss to Milwaukee on Friday, Happ became the first pitcher in franchise history to allow five or more runs in eight consecutive starts.
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“It’s not an easy decision,” Wade said. “We wanted to figure out the best way to get him back on track. And I think it truly is a case of back on track. This is not placing your hope and faith on a guy who has only done it at a level below where we are right now.”
Heading into this season, Happ was 19-9 with a 3.27 ERA in the majors. The Astros are 4-18 in Happ’s starts this season. He has the highest walk rate (4.8 per nine innings) of any of the NL ERA qualifiers.
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Posted: August 07, 2011 at 02:44 AM | 12 comment(s)
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1. Didi Dodo Doodoo (1k5v3L)That's a pretty impressive run of sucking.
It probably also means that Mills is leaving him in there to get torched rather than just pulling him out of the game at the first sign of major trouble.
If Mills did that he would burn out the bullpen lickety split. Happ has been giving up runs early and often
Yet, Happ's K/9 and BB/9 are basically the same for both years (actually slightly improved in 2011). The difference? How about a BABIP of .262 in 2010 in contrast to .322 in 2011. Or a LOB of 76% in 2010 vs. 61% in 2011.
I'm sure glad that never happened.
That's a pretty impressive run of sucking.
Especially considering this is the same franchise that gave Lima Time 42 starts in 2000-01 with an ERA of almost 7.
Not really your point, but I thought I'd mention that Happ's ERA+ this year is 60. Lima in those two years averaged roughly a 77 ERA+. Happ's suckiness is certainly impressive.
The more comparable Lima year would part of his career always baffles me) with 168.2 IP of 63 ERA+. That, of course, got ol' Omar Minaya all intrigued and led to me seeing the worst, most hopeless starts I'd ever seen in my life the next year.
EDIT: Looking closer at Lima, he's sort of a lesson in, no matter how shitty your stuff is, if you can throw strikes, you'll do alright. Every time his BB/9 was lower than 2 (which is very impressive), he was pretty good.
EDIT EDIT: Except '97. And '01, he was at 2.1 but an ERA+ of 79 over 169 innings. Ouch. So, uh, nevermind, I guess.
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