Carlos Zambrano
11 posts
Beaning and Fisting
On Monday afternoon, Jacob Peterson of @JunkStats pointed out an anomaly with Doug Fister 's propensity to hit batters this season. As some of you may know, Doug Fister leads the league with 12 HBP. Jacob pointed out…
Checking in on OOPS
A year ago, we looked at leaders in Opponents' OPS , then again with historical perspective . Recapping what we learned last season: Opponents OPS Leaders (ERA Qualifiers) 2000 AL: Pedro Martinez , Red Sox .473 NL:…
MLB Pitchers with Best Stuff
The quantitative bounties found in Fangraphs linear weights help us understand most of the who, what, how, or why certain things happen on the field. It is important to remember that pitch values are not a predictive…
Mentality of Zambrano
This story feels so familiar. We've been through this before with Carlos Zambrano. Heck, the cubs organization has went through something similar with Sammy Sosa and Milton Bradley. Of course, Carlos Zambrano will not…
Throwing Strikes or Effectively Wild?
Warning: This post includes a lot of numbers, some observations, and unfortunately very few conclusions. Last month, we looked at pitchers with extraordinary abilities at missing bats in the zone . Tonight, in the…
MLB Team Snapshots
The Beautiful Mind level insanity around the AL Previews formula I've been tinkering with and referred to in these two posts should (hopefully) be done today. In an effort to not let the homework slow down our…
50 Worst MLB'ers
Good friend and brilliant reader, Jason, comment on our Top 50 Baseball Player series: “Bad contracts can [be] almost as harmful as good contracts can be helpful.” Since this will always be a place for the readers,…
Recent Rumors & Reactions
July is the best month of the year for MLB trade rumors, and thus mlbtraderumors.com . To keep up with the pace, we will try to pull the highlights from recent posts... Miguel Tejada to the Phillies I actually like this…
Juan Cruz to the Cubs?
Over the past week, the Kansas City Royals have taken the steps required to release blog favorite Juan Cruz . Fangraphs' R.J. Anderson raises some good points, while wondering aloud why the Royals made this move. From…
The Managerial Rise of Enyr Grebdnas
Harry Caray, bless his heart, had a fascination with names. Players, teams, countries, no-one was safe from his imagination. He would criticize people who's last name sounded better to him as a first name. For example,…
New Favorite Non-Closer
Warning notice: I'm sorry. This post should only interesting to me and, maybe, longtime friends. Proceed with caution... For some reason, I've always been a fan of flame-throwing relief pitchers who don't get the glory…
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