April 2004

The Hardball Times have posted their first cut of pitching statistics now as well. Their pitching stats include runs saved above average (RSAA), fielding independent pitching (FIP), defensive efficiency ratio (DER), and line drive percentage. The stats are through the 4/26 games. Like I did with the offensive stats, here’s what I found interesting in [...]

Reader Mark Auman sent me a note last Tuesday following the Tigers 10-4 win over the Indians. Despite splitting the series with Cleveland, the Tigers were struggling. Here is what Mark pointed out: I’ve been keeping detailed scoresheets for each game this season and happened to notice a disturbing trend after that great start. Exactly [...]

Nate has made three starts this year. The first he pitched well enough to pick up the win. The next two starts were atrocious. Cornejo’s ERA is currently sitting at 9.73 and he’s allowed 36 baserunners in 16 1/3 innings. Last year Cornejo was fairly effective despite a cosmically low strike out rate. I decided [...]

Miscellaneous Tiger factoids:-Lead off hitter Alex Sanchez now has 42 plate apperances without a walk. Fortunately he’s batting .300, unfortunately his OBA is .300. -Equally concerning is that Eric Munson doesn’t have a walk this season in 30 plate appearances. Last year Munson had about one walk for every ten PA’s. He was averaging 3.7 [...]

It looked like it might be a tough day against Halladay when the Tigers burned through 6 outs on only 14 pitches. Halladay went on to pitch an eight shut out. The only time the Tigers threatened was in the 5th inning. Trailing 3-0 they managed to load the bases before Brandon Inge, filling in [...]