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by **philliesphhan** » Thu May 06, 2010 02:21:40

You did waste some of your life, I'm afraid. Go to any pitcher's page on baseball-reference and next to Standard Pitching, click on "more stats"

Under Pitch Summary -- Pitching, you'll find 1st%

by **Woody** » Thu May 06, 2010 08:29:00

Both of you are wasting your life, if we're being honest

by **CrashburnAlley** » Thu May 06, 2010 11:10:49

Also found in the Plate Discipline section on FanGraphs:

http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?pl ... discipline

by **SK790** » Thu May 06, 2010 11:54:36

Noted, it's still interesting enough that Kendrick not only seems to be defying statistics with his starts, he's doing the exact opposite of what statistics dictate. When he's been throwing 1st pitch strikes, he's struggled, when he hasn't he's done well. Small sample size, I'm sure, but interesting nonetheless. And if I had just taken them without looking into each game, I wouldn't have seen that.

/trying to justify wasting a half hour.

by **WheelsFellOff** » Thu May 06, 2010 12:16:23

SK790 wrote:Noted, it's still interesting enough that Kendrick not only seems to be defying statistics with his starts, he's doing the exact opposite of what statistics dictate. When he's been throwing 1st pitch strikes, he's struggled, when he hasn't he's done well. Small sample size, I'm sure, but interesting nonetheless. And if I had just taken them without looking into each game, I wouldn't have seen that.

/trying to justify wasting a half hour.

It basically means his stuff is so hittable that when he throws strikes the batters score many, many runs. But when he's wild, the batters remember how many runs other teams have scored and swing like madmen. eventually though they will stop and he'll just suck no matter what.

by **Eem** » Thu May 06, 2010 12:21:52

My favorite Kendrick moment of the year came in his start against Arizona. He struck out Reynolds on a high pitch.

On the radio, LA remarked that it was a slider that didn't slide. He said the pitch was so bad it completely fooled Reynolds.

by **bleh** » Thu May 06, 2010 12:28:25

Kendrick's OPS against is 1.006 :lol:

by **joe table** » Thu May 06, 2010 12:46:26

The Eeming Tree wrote:My favorite Kendrick moment of the year came in his start against Arizona. He struck out Reynolds on a high pitch.

On the radio, LA remarked that it was a slider that didn't slide. He said the pitch was so bad it completely fooled Reynolds.

He had one of those to Pujols last night that he popped up.

I liked how Dubee was basically chewing him out after multiple innings too(mostly for pitch selection to Molina, hitting before the pitcher) while he had a shutout going.

He wasn't throwing many absolute c0ckshots last night though. A lot of effective nibbling

by **smitty** » Thu May 06, 2010 19:44:13

I know the pitch to Pujols you're talking about. Cant' believe he didn't hit that one to Kensington. KK threw a few others the Cards just flat missed. Plus there were the usual lasers right at fielders.

One thing that worked out pretty well for Kendrick was the Cards have quite a few guys in their lineup that just aren't very good hitters.

by **WheelsFellOff** » Thu May 06, 2010 23:20:35

I think I may start referencing the Cardinals as "Albert Pujols and the Average White Man Superband"

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Fri May 07, 2010 02:20:28

smitty wrote:KK threw a few others the Cards just flat missed.

Being he didn't follow Moyer, couldn't be moss still on the ball. So I dunno.

by **Soren** » Fri May 07, 2010 09:03:58

so at what point does Hamels BABIP normalize? It's at .356 so far this year.

by **Woody** » Fri May 07, 2010 09:05:40

soon as he stops pitching with a cack in his mouth

by **Slowhand** » Fri May 07, 2010 22:48:36

Jamie Moyer's WHIP this season is at 1.08. Really.

by **jerseyhoya** » Sat May 08, 2010 06:20:31

I guess the Dodgers had a low draw this past week, because we're tops in average attendance for the moment.

by **jerseyhoya** » Sat May 08, 2010 06:23:05

This past time through the rotation, our bullpen only had to record 25 outs, including 3 in extras. Damn impressive since we were at home, so no skipping the ninth inning. Averaged over seven and a half innings per start.

by **phatj** » Sat May 08, 2010 07:20:38

And Roy Halladay pulled the average *down*.

by **Soren** » Sat May 08, 2010 11:19:49

mute the song, but return of phist pump guy at the :44-:45 second mark

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb8-HcfcIWw[/youtube]

by **21McBride** » Sat May 08, 2010 13:00:20

the Morning Call (at the coffee shop) just informed me that Chooch is leading the league in OBP. Boss!

by 1 » Sun May 09, 2010 18:18:53

he won't be missed.

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