by qksilver69 » Thu May 29, 2008 8:24 am
Well, looks like I locked up the East last night. The div went pretty much as I expected, with me lucky to be in a not-so-strong grouping, but I got a strong challenge from AK as I thought I might.
The playoffs are almost set, with the WC still up for grabs. Smokey & Casey neck & neck right now, should be a fun finish.
Casey, forgive me for rooting against you - I'm 8-4 against Smokey & 4-5 vs. your squad! :wink:
Oh BTW Niners, on your whine about Wang (LOL) sorry but you have no one to blame but yourself, or more specifically, your park. Wang has no HRs on his card and only gave up 9 in 199 IP in real life. In that bandbox you call home, he gave up 15 HRs in 86 IP. So we know that a ton of those were BP HRs, likely at least 2/3 of them. If those are outs instead of hits, his H/IP would drop a ton. You still got probably 10% more HR than you should expect, but his natural WHIP is high enough to make a "snowball" effect very likely in your park.
What I mean is in real life, in many cases he gets a runner or two on base with 2 outs & gets a flyball out to end the inning. In your park the flyball might be a HR, which extends the inning. And with his WHIP on the high end for "elite" SPs, the chances that he gives up another hit or BB are higher than say, Harang, which in turn gives him more chances to have a follow-up BP HR hit against him....
Moral of the story? It might be better, even in your park, to trade 1 or 2 pts of BP HRs for .1 or .2 of WHIP improvement. Just my 2 cents...