I've got a few bullet points, but since I'm a little occupied right now and don't know when I'll be able to get to them, here you go.
Biggest Contribution: Erik Bedard, +33.9%
Biggest Suckfest: Jamie Burke, -17.9%
Most Important AB: Ichiro single, +9.7%
Most Important Pitch: Sweeney groundout, Davis double play, +14.2%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): +47.5%
Total Contribution by Hitters: +2.5%
Total Contribution by Opposition: 0.0%
(What is this chart?)
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Awesome game
JJ needs to fix the his control, though I thought a few of those pitches were strikes.
NORTON FOR DH!!!!!
Beltre for King of Awesomeness…oh wait.
dbroncos31 - April 26, 2008
Greg Norton
fuck yes.
PShwa - April 26, 2008
Bedard, Norton looked awesome.
I’ll forgive the BBs today, Oakland has always seemed to be really really good at taking borderline pitches. Basically if it wasn’t in the zone they wouldn’t swing. The only thing that concerned me is he didn’t get a lot of swinging strikes in the zone, but from my seat he looked solid.
Fuck salute to kids weekend and that stupid bitchy six year old who kept whining about his DS and wanting to go home.
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2008
Plus, they knew Bedard was on a pitch count
It’s entirely possible they were told to take a lot of pitches to drive his pitch count up as much as possible since Squinty made sure that fact was readily availabe to everyone, in order to get him removed from the game early so the hitters could face our bullpen for the latter half. Luckily Bedard had enough control to prevent that strategy from being successful.
OlSalty - April 26, 2008
I hope Norton being good isn't counter productive
for obvious reasons. If Norton is consistent, Squinty will think that he has a solid DH, so no need to call up Clement, to leave him to tear him AAA until they decide to trade him for some veteran garbage or call him up and leave him to rot on the bench likes Jones did last season.
Fin - April 26, 2008
On the other hand, I'd much rather go with Norton
than stick with pile-of-suck Vidro.
vkut79 - April 26, 2008
I can't complain about anything tonight.
Bedard look great and the Mariners won. Got a little wild at the end, but it is nice to finally be on the winning side of the tension (last Sunday was good as well).
Wilder. - April 26, 2008
This is off topic but it wasn't intended to be
I was about to suggest a Clement/Norton DH platoon. But I just looked up Clement’s stats and holy crap he had some insane reverse platoon splits last year. .317/.427/.685 against lefties and .261/.348/.433 against righties. 2006 he was noticeably better against lefties as well, though not as extreme. Anyone know why is this and if is it likely to continue at the major league level? Graham, our resident Clement fanboy, any idea?
Nick S - April 27, 2008
Someone did a write up last year
can’t remember who, where they hypothesized that Clement was mashing against AAAA finesse lefties and it was inflating his splits. Plus, without doing any research, I though Norton wasn’t very good batting right handed.
JI - April 27, 2008
That was over at USSM, citing a minor league scout
Jeff Sullivan - April 27, 2008
Yep
I wouldn’t expect Clement to show extreme platoon splits one way or the other at the ML level, though. Reverse splits tend not to be real, unless the player is magical (oh hi Ichiro).
Graham MacAree - April 27, 2008
It's still a very small sample but...
but that split isn’t showing up this year.
vs. left: .391/.500/.478
vs right: .375/.524/.792
Of course, he’s also been playing in some pretty severe hitter parks so far when they’ve been out of Cheney, hence the 1.588 road OPS. It’s something we’ll have to keep an eye on.
JY - April 27, 2008
I would say vs. Left is very different than Vs. Right
CapSea - April 27, 2008
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