by joethejet » Thu Jul 08, 2010 5:41 pm
Stoney,
Actually, thanks for the thoughts, I appreciate it actually. Helps you get better even if you don't agree with all the conclusions.
So to address your thoughts. It's not the best fit for my hitters it's true, but I had to weigh off some fairly big HRs on the pitchers side so I chose Fenway which would help the OB and averages. The HRs for RHB isn't that low 1-7 is just below the average.
My actual park numbers are
13.0 6.3 11.0 7.9
So, 1-8 HRs on average for Hill, Tulo, Holliday and Kapler. Not terrible. Pretty average. Not like I had Petco for the home park. Singles are high for guys like Ethier, Morgan, Kennedy and Teixiera and above average for the RHBs. Obviously the singles didn't help my average. My contention is that they should have.
V LHP? Well, the O was counting on Kapler to get OB (didn't happen .316 OB v LHP :() and hit a few HRs (4.2 real Hrs) along with some HRs from Hill (6.0 real) and Tulo (4.6 real). Tulo is the only one that did what I hoped for. As for TBs, were were equal to or better than 4 of the other teams in the league v LHP. (Using my parks for all of the calcs) Our average TB is .445. Also, for most of the year Morales was our Catcher and has more TBs than Redmond (though not a ton)
V RHP, you missed Morales who also had more than 30 hit chances. We were pretty middle of the pack in that regard if you look at the average per team. We had outstanding OB v RHP (as good or better than 8 teams) and we were third in TBs v RHP. Only AT and you had more TBs on average. Even our clutch which I don't consider all that great was middle of the pack.
Platoons. Mostly I had two platoons 3b and RF. Sometimes Crisp played for either Morgan or Sheffield depending on the pitcher.
Morgan played against a lot of backward LHP. A weakness, but look at what Drew has done v backward LHP by comparison.
A Gonz - Due mostly to the injuries that Tulo and Kennedy had.
Crisp was due to the large number of injuries to Morgan (many 8+ gamers) and the number of Hard RHP we faced so he played over Sheffield. My bench was weak for sure and we got nailed by injuries.
Catchers - only platooned the last 20 games. Morales played most of the year. Solid singles hitter both ways.
Not sure why Kapler got so many ABs v RHp other than Hal is stupid. Of course his numbers v RHP aren't that much worse than V LHP.
Weak spots - I think I had one weak spot v RHP - Morales and two v LHP Morales and Morgan/Crisp The rest were pretty decent.
Pitching - Yep, the ratings would say average. The very good D *should* have made them better. The guy that got overworked the most - Sanches - I have no complaints about. 16 of the complete games came from Johson/Beckett. Lannan was on quick hook all season. Prolly should have had Correia there too. He's got a 1.63 ratio and a 5.59 ERA. One thing I didn't do well was get enough IP from Lyon some of that was we had so many mop up IP from Correia and Lannan.
As for closer, different strategies I suppose. Won the championship in NLD 22 and had Johnson and Giese pick up a ton of IP and Hanrahan for the late innings (c3) Had 41 saves on the staff with 17BS. Hanrahan lead with 15.
So, in summary, I agree with you that the park wasn't a great fit for some of my hitters. It was a good fit for others (e.g. Morgan, Kennedy, Morales). And, i think it was pretty good for the pitching. While my O had some holes v RHP, if you look at the whole league, this wasn't unusual. I think it is a complete flunk that we're 10 in runs scored. A joke really. I also agree that the pitching was average and expected the D to make it a good P/F, that didn't happen. In fact we gave up 79 unearned runs 22 more than the next closest team (Silver). Now, that's with an e10 as SS, and e8 at 2b and an e6 in CF. That's 16 of the 30 X factors. Catcher (e16) and 3b (27/24) were the only remotely high numbers of e's.