Doll Is Mine wrote:Probably during the 8th inning last night...

My money's on the 2nd.

Werthless wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:Probably during the 8th inning last night...

My money's on the 2nd.

I just noticed that. Dummy.

and probably not last night nor even 2013

td11 wrote:

Werthless wrote:But that's a worse statistic than groundball percentage for understanding the pitchers that are good are inducing groundballs.

worse than what, gb/PA? not trying to be a dick, this is the first time i've seen someone complain about gb/fb not being a good indicator of a pitcher's groundball tendencies

Yeah, gb/PA. It was more of an aside. Think of the progression for evaluating how effective a pitcher is at striking out batters. First level, look at total K's. But we can do better, so we look at K/9. But even better, we look at K's as a percentage of PAs. A guy that K's 10/9IP is less impressive of a strikeout pitcher if he allows a ton of baserunners per inning.

Take Matt Harvey. This year, he has 0.74 GB/FB ratio, 4th worst in baseball. So if we're using gb/fo to evaluate who the groundball pitchers, he's doing poorly. However, he's middle of the pack in groundballs per plate appearance. He's dominating because he's giving up very few line drives (3 total, in 22 innings), striking a ton of guys out, and walking few. His groundball percentage would look "better" if it included the other outcomes.

102 plate appearances since Phillies last unintentional walk.

I know it's about production and not walks, but that seems excessive to me.

Trent Steele wrote:I know it's about production and not walks

What about when you get neither

Trent Steele wrote:102 plate appearances since Phillies last unintentional walk.

I know it's about production and not walks, but that seems excessive to me.

Yuni was IBB'd tonight. Shoulda kept.

Trent Steele wrote:102 plate appearances since Phillies last unintentional walk.

I know it's about production and not walks, but that seems excessive to me.

They have been known occasionally to go together.

we're really bad right now

luckily , its only April, a month we've never really been good in.

unluckily, its only April

haven't really been bad in April since 2007

Are we bad? right now, yes, but our record has hovered around .500 in April hasn't it, except that one year with rule

Might get tickets tonight so I can see a no hitter.

Previous bad Aprils don't make this team better.

ill choose to wait until this month is over before filing a retort

Jayson Stark ‏@jaysonst

Part 2 of #uselessinfo: 1st time Phillies hitters drew 0 BB in a series of 3+ games since 8/20-23/27 (included loss to Grover C. Alexander!)

welp

RT'd by Ruin Tomorrow Jr.

I obviously watched little of this last series....but they didn't draw a walk the entire time?!!!! WTF

It's a chicken and egg thing when you're struggling. Pitchers aren't going to dick around with the zone when you only have one guy swinging well for power

That said, it seems like they're taking too many first-pitch meatballs and then lunging at bad pitches late in the count

having a hard time motivating myself to watch the games at this point. its not a good team.