Comments on: B-Log: Lineups and Umpiring

By: Joseph Angelotti

Joseph Angelotti — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:40:00 +0000

At 7-7 as of 02 July, 2008 I ask as a Mets fan why Bannister “today” is not a better value & or teammate then Santana? Yes Santana has the lower era (3.01 vs. 4.88), but with 17 starts and 2.5 years Santana’s junior I ponder if the dollars make Brian’s 7 wins just as good as Johan’s?
Clearly Brian is not looking to throw teammates under the bus as Johan did on 2 occasions.
Mets need to stay away from BIG $ pitchers!
GLAVINE, PEDRO, Randy Jones and Johan can perhaps have a get together so they can all review their portfolios courtesy of Flushing.
;0(

By: buckweaver

buckweaver — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:52:19 +0000

Here’s another: http://tinyurl.com/56smr4 (B-R)

Ichiro, from April 16 to May 16, 2001, had a 128-PA streak without walking. He hit about .375, with an OPS of ~.930 in that stretch.

Ahh, but here’s one for Guillen to aspire to: http://tinyurl.com/6rrfzv (B-R) or http://tinyurl.com/5m4ujc (BM)

Pudge Rodriguez, from July 3 to Aug. 18, 1999, had a 174-PA streak without a walk. Here’s his line: .366/.374/.674. He had 15 homers and 38 RBI in those 38 games, on his way, of course, to the American League MVP.

That seems to be the gold standard, at least of the last 50 years. Quite a few sluggers who might have compiled such streaks before then, especially Nap Lajoie.

By: buckweaver

buckweaver — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:34:14 +0000

Here’s another pretty good streak, by Kirby Puckett: http://tinyurl.com/5l7y9h (for the B-R version) or http://tinyurl.com/6mjb7r (for the baseballmusings version)

From July 5 to Aug. 10, 1988, Puckett produced a pretty crazy .375/.367(!)/.599 line without walking for 139 consecutive PAs.

That’s about the closest comparison to Guillen’s stretch that I’ve found. In 1988, Puckett also had two other streaks of 74 and 88 PAs, respectively, without a walk in which he hit over .370 both times.

But nothing else remotely close to 150 PAs.

By: Former Army Person

Former Army Person — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:50:43 +0000

“This lineup scores 4.556 runs per game â€¦ so, about .35 runs per game fewer, which ainâ€™t much. Thatâ€™s only one run every three days â€” about 57 runs per year.”

The Royals are currently on pace to allow 751 runs. The best lineup scores 794, the worst 738. The best lieup would be a winning season, the worst a losing one. The difference is roughly five games (using the James’ Pythagorean Theorem, play with the exponents as you like) – again not much, but psychologically, a winning season would probably be huge for the fan base. Of course, the games already played may preclude catching up to .500 now, but it sure would be nice to have a winning season.

By: David Wintheiser

David Wintheiser — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:01:48 +0000

Thank goodness for Baseball Reference’s Play Index, because it allowed me to find Bo Diaz.

On June 25, 1987, Bo Diaz went to the plate for the Cincinnati Reds and started a streak of 147 at-bats without a walk, spanning 38 games and lasting through the 10th of August that same year. Over that span, Diaz hit .354 with nine doubles, a triple, and ten home runs, and knocked in 39 RBI. His OPS over that stretch was .988. (This for a player who, for the season, hit .270/721.) That’s not *quite* as good as Guillen’s .359/999 mark over his own 156 PAs, but it’s close enough that I’d let Diaz’s run count as evidence that Guillen’s run isn’t ‘unprecedented’.

‘Once in a generation’, on the other hand? That certainly seems defensible.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:25:32 +0000

My favorite Ebert opinion was the exchange he had a few years ago with Vincent Gallo over Gallo’s film ‘The Brown Bunny’ (for the record, I love Gallo and LOVE Buffalo ‘66, but these comments are just priceless)

Roger Ebert called the “The Brown Bunny” “the worst in the history of Cannes” to which Vincent Gallo responded that Ebert was a “fat pig with the physique of a slave trader.” Ebert paraphrased a remark of Winston Churchill’s and responded that “although I am fat, one day I will be thin, but Mr. Gallo will still have been the director of ‘Brown Bunny’.” Gallo then put a “hex” on Ebert’s colon, to which Ebert responded that “even my colonoscopy was more entertaining than his film.”

By: Creston

Creston — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:44:23 +0000

I’m really confused about the comments system. There is a reply button under every comment, but if you reply, it doesn’t put that reply with the original comment?

And it keeps telling me I already posted a reply to someone, but it’s not showing up?

I hate newfangled layouts. Darn kids. Get off my lawn!

By: Creston

Creston — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:41:12 +0000

I’m talking about the Ebert from Ebert and Roeper. That’s him, right?

I have NEVER, EVER rented a movie that didn’t have

“Two Thumbs Up” Roger Ebert

on the front cover. Ever. I think he gave two thumbs up to Epoch.

By: Creston

Creston — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:35:50 +0000

Ewwww. Can I just say that I REALLY hate this current layout? I LOVED the other one. Why are replies now newest first? If you want to read through the whole thread, you have to start at the bottom and read up.

/sad.

By: Aviles for All Star

Aviles for All Star — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:46:22 +0000

Take a look at the Royals runs per game since Aviles became a starter. He has played 18 straight games, and during that time the Royals have scored 99 runs, for a 5.5 runs per game average. I know Guillen has been red hot, but you can’t discount the replacement of an automatic out (Pena) with a guy hitting .352/652/1.000+