Rookie pitcher means we will get shutout. Moehler will be the TBA and get a win. Poor Paulino falls to 0-8.
Wandy yanked after 3.1 IP. So far this season, he's looked a lot more like the 2005-6 Wandy than the 2008-9 Wandy.
lol, Caballo with his best defensive play in a looooooooong time. Doesn't help much but it was a solid effort. It's 8 or 9-2 if he doesn't make the catch.
Wandy's line: 3.1 IP, 8 H, 8 ER, 2 HR, 2 BB, 5 K His ERA and WHIP are up to 5.37 and 1.63, respectively.
I have nothing more to say then this is the worst baseball team I've ever seen. These guys are 2003 Tigers bad. Having the Pirates in our division will prevent us from losing 120 games. Maybe they'll turn it around and suck like the 90 loss team that was expected.
I imagine there was a good reason that the pre-season Baseball Think Factory simulations had us as the only team in baseball not making the playoffs once in a single simulation. Just looking at our roster, I figured that everything would have to fall in place perfectly for us to win 70 games.
If Carlos Lee, Berkman, Pence, & Wandy were at their career averages, we probably would be on pace for 70 wins.
Well, they were all at or near those numbers last season and the data says that we got extremely lucky to win 74 games given our run differential and other peripheral stats. We were more like a 65-68 win team and we've gotten weaker at a couple of positions this season. I hear what you're saying but I feel that we would need more than just those 4 playing to their career averages to win 70 games. We would need other players to overachieve and plenty of luck.
Run differential is something I hate. A poor offensive team with a strong front rotation wins a lot of close games, and loses a lot of blowouts. Sure we lost Hawk, Valverde, & Tejada, but we did bring in Lindstrom, Lyon, & Myers that have played very well. Unfortunately Feliz has made me begging for Chris Truby. Kaz Matsui went from bad, to embarrassing.
There are deviations but run differential has a huge correlation with wins and losses over time, in almost every sport. You can make specific arguments for individual teams that explain minor variations but in almost every single season, almost every single team's record correlates strongly to their wins and losses and position in the standings, even teams with strong front ends to their rotations and what not. It all kind of balances out in the end within each team and across teams. Either way, this team blows. They are so bad that we are discussing if they could win 70 games max and finish near the bottom of their division. :grin: I will say this. I think we could finish ahead of the Pirates. They are likely worse than us despite where they are in the standings.
