By: BobLoblaw
Confucious say: The only thing wrong with a Padres pitcher is he never gets to face the Padres lineup.
View ArticleBy: Aaron
As a Padres fan, I have conflicting reactions to Garland’s performance. On one hand, the results have been fantastic. On the other hand, as Joe pointed out, he’s overperformed and he is all but certain...
View ArticleBy: JoeyO
“His 3.54 road ERA comes somewhat close to this 4.13 FIP and 4.05 xFIP.” I’ve never understood why everyone chooses to put ERA against FIP/xFIP to figure out if someone has been lucky. It is Runs/9...
View ArticleBy: batpig
yes, the unearned runs have to be taken into account when looking into Garland’s season so far. He has allowed 14 earned runs…. but 7 unearned runs! So when you look at his overall RA/9 of 3.57 he...
View ArticleBy: Nathaniel Dawson
Why would his groundball rate help his BABIP? Well, I suppose it would if it was reducing the number of line drives he allowed, but that’s not the case — he’s right at his career rate. Allowing more...
View ArticleBy: Garison
“Allowing more groundballs while allowing the same amount of line drives should increase a pitcher’s BABIP.” That may be true in general, but in any case, the context matters. What is the nature of the...
View ArticleBy: Garison
Er, that should read “Allowing more flyballs while allowing the same amount of line drives should increase the amount of home runs allowed.” Not necessarily the HR/FB rate.
View ArticleBy: Nathaniel Dawson
Well…..maybe. And there’s a lot about how parks affect the game that we don’t really know about. So I can see how in Garland’s case it might be true. Still, fly balls are turned into outs more often...
View ArticleBy: JMHawkins
And here I thought “Strading Runners at Home” was a euphemism for upping his strikeout rate.
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