As someone who usually works until ~4:45 and drives home until 5:30, these East Coast games present a problem. Either I can try to pick them up live having missed a bunch of innings, which makes writing more difficult, or I can wait and watch the archived video, in which case I have to do what I can to avoid seeing the score. Neither is great, but I always have to choose one of them, and today I chose the archive.
Funny thing about game archives: you can't watch them until the game's actually over. As we approached 8pm tonight with the game still going strong, I knew I was in trouble; a near four-hour contest would take me close to midnight to watch, and in that scenario there's just no hope for getting much writing done, not with an 8-5 job.
So with the pressure off, I put down my pencil and paper, sat back, and watched a hell of a ballgame. For the better part of four hours.
RRS is so lovable.
Biggest Contribution: Richie Sexson, +38.0%
Biggest Suckfest: Adrian Beltre, -46.2% (that was a costly error)
Most Important AB: Sexson single, +27.8%
Most Important Pitch: Beltre error/fielder's choice, -18.0%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): +42.4%
Total Contribution by Hitters: +7.6%
Total Contribution by Opposition: 0.0%
(What is this chart?)
If I can find the time at work tomorrow I'll throw up a few observations. But for now, after watching that marathon and cleaning up the mess that was today's game thread, I'm calling it a night.
Jarrod Washburn and Andy Sonnanstine tomorrow at 4:10pm PDT. I think we like Sonnanstine more than Rays fans do. That's weird.
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By the way
yeah you better believe I took a screenshot of this.
Jeff Sullivan - April 9, 2008
Yay GTE
SethGrandpa - April 9, 2008
You saw this, yeah?
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/4/9/390982/4-8-open-game-thread-part#4436822
Or I'll repost it here (Props to PositivePaul):
CapSea - April 9, 2008
And a new poster, FrayLo, for the screenshot.
CapSea - April 9, 2008
I missed that
very well done.
Jeff Sullivan - April 9, 2008
Did anyone get...
the dumbass in the grey shirt humping air in the earlier innings, I think when they took the lead?
Faux - April 9, 2008
Is it just me,
or does that man have a grotesquely disfigured right hand?
Bearskin Rugburn - April 9, 2008
That there boy's done got a flipper!
OlSalty - April 9, 2008
Holy crap. Beltre's error was -46.2% Wow.
SethGrandpa - April 9, 2008
No, it was -18%
Graham MacAree - April 9, 2008
Oh...I'm very dumb
SethGrandpa - April 9, 2008
Is it fair to give all the blame to Beltre?
I don't know if they replayed it, but it looked at first glance like Lopez should have caught that throw.
johnbai - April 9, 2008
This is why I ignore the defensive stuff at year's end
Jeff Sullivan - April 9, 2008
Maybe we can steal Sonnanstine from them.
We promise to leave a~durable crafty lefty in his place
Matthew - April 9, 2008
We're screwed tomorrow
315 ft. to left field fence = at least 2 HR's from Washburn
And Sonnanstine is pretty damn good.
OlSalty - April 9, 2008
315 to left field fence = several less yards for Ibanez to run.
CapSea - April 9, 2008
Touche
Does anyone still look at the facebook LL group? Just found it and was curious!
seattlesundevil - April 9, 2008
Graham doesn't ever update it.
CapSea - April 9, 2008
I checked it recently, and it cracked me up
that people are still posting their LL screen names. That thing is like, 9 months old or something.
brayden04 - April 9, 2008
I do when I am reminded it exists
Graham MacAree - April 9, 2008
That won't help him catch the ones that go over the fence
Given Washburn's predilection for long fly balls to right handed batters, I'm not hopeful.
OlSalty - April 9, 2008
Does Tampa have any right handed batters?
johnbai - April 9, 2008
Can I just say
that I can't wait until late May so we can know what team we're rooting for? Cause so far there's been like three incarnations of the 08 Mariners, some of which I'm willing to believe in as contenders, and some of which seem well on track to fulfill DMZ's diamond mind predictions.
Bearskin Rugburn - April 9, 2008
Biggest Contribution: Richie Sexson
When was the last time you saw those words together?
The Ghost of Spike Owen - April 9, 2008
I'm concerned about Bedard.
Not because of the results, but the FSN gun had his fastball at 88-89 mph yesterday.
Phil Hatzenbuehler - April 9, 2008
D'oh.
Though now looking at Fangraphs, pitchFx has his average fastball at 91.6 mph...the exact same as last year.
I withdraw my statement.
Phil Hatzenbuehler - April 9, 2008
Yeah, gun was slow in TB
Graham MacAree - April 9, 2008
His average FBv yesterday was 91.2
Jeff Sullivan - April 9, 2008
And I too was concerned at first
but yeah, radar guns lie, while PITCHf/x does not.
Jeff Sullivan - April 9, 2008
Where do you get your game-by-game breakdowns of PITCHf/x?
Phil Hatzenbuehler - April 9, 2008
Can't thank Dave enough for tipping me off
http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2008/month_04/
Pick a day, pick a game, click pbp, go to Pitchers, import the URL of the guy you want into Excel, and go crazy.
Jeff Sullivan - April 9, 2008
That's awesome
Anyone know if Yahoo's GameChannel/StatTracker has this sort of data available somewhere? I'd love to be able to play with it...
ralphie81 - April 9, 2008
It's not allowed to be publicly dsitributed by anyone else
per MLBAM.
believe me I've tried.
Matthew - April 9, 2008
OK
I was thinking more of specific fantasy league information so I could, for example, see how I would've done against any given team any given week. I suppose I could just do a web page table pull though.
ralphie81 - April 9, 2008
Or not
No way to log in...
ralphie81 - April 9, 2008
Holy fuck there's a lot of data to be had there
seattlebruin - April 9, 2008
indeed
this is what I've been working on for months, is grabbing this data and compiling it in useful ways. I'm hopeful to have as much of it as I can publicly up by the end of the month.
Matthew - April 9, 2008
It's too bad it's displayed in such an annoyingly unusable way though
seattlebruin - April 9, 2008
throw it in Excel and it's perfectly fine
but I still don't understand most of it, because I'm dumb.
pdb - April 9, 2008
That's what I mean though
it's just a pain in the ass to throw all that data into Excel (although selfishly, I'm glad someone else is doing it =D)
seattlebruin - April 9, 2008
that's where I step in.
Matthew - April 9, 2008
Need More Knowledge on RRS
I remember him getting picked up by the Twins in the Rule V draft, but the M's were lucky enough to get him back.
Does anyone got a scouting report on him? If one of our starters were to go down, could he be a suitable replacement?
JoeyJoJoJuniorShabadoo - April 9, 2008
In theory yes
but they'd need to stretch him out, which they aren't doing by making him the high-leverage lefty in the bullpen.
Four-pitch lefty (FB, CH, CU, SL) whose fastball scrapes 90mph in relief. Flyball guy, pretty good command, solid breaking ball that looked terrific last night. I personally think he's capable of being our #3 or #4 starter with a little work in Tacoma, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen.
Jeff Sullivan - April 9, 2008
I always thought RRS was around 92-93 on his FB in relief?
Or have I just been on crack the past year or so.
seattlebruin - April 9, 2008
Well, FanGraphs proves I'm an idiot
RRS avg. FB - 90.7
seattlebruin - April 9, 2008
He can get up there, but not regularly
Jeff Sullivan - April 9, 2008
Scouting report:
-Solid lefty with good MiLB track record.
-Good velocity for a lefty, good breaking ball. Can get righties out.
-Testicles made of brass, clang loudly when pitching as to disrupt batter's timing
-Goggles serve to
protect eyeglassescontain eye-lasersBearskin Rugburn - April 9, 2008
Also
-From Australia
-Has a hyphenated name
-These two things serve to increase awesomeness by about 75%
seattlebruin - April 9, 2008
first major leaguer with a hyphen actually
Bearskin Rugburn - April 9, 2008
Trendsetter!
seattlebruin - April 9, 2008
In his LAST name.
I think Byung-Hyun Kim was one of the first w/a hyphen. Of course, unlike OUR Hyphen, he didn't have his on a jersey, so yeah. The first hyphenated jersey in MLB ever.
PositivePaul - April 9, 2008
This is made of awesome
Best thing I've read on ESPN this year
seattlebruin - April 9, 2008
Dude get TiVo
Get the MLB season pass and a TiVo and you can start watching the game as soon as you get home and and fast forward through commercials. You might even be able to catch up to live action if you start only an hour or so late.
I know you've claimed poverty in the past, but I'm sure there's enough people here that would chip in a few bucks if it would mean the recaps would come a few hours earliar.
Edanger6 - April 9, 2008
I take way too many screenshots to make watching on TV a good idea
Jeff Sullivan - April 9, 2008
Slingbox
seattlebruin - April 9, 2008
Some people call it a slingbox, I call it a kaiserbox... Mmhmm.
Thingray - April 9, 2008
Reckon I'll eat me some mashed O'Flaherties
johnbai - April 9, 2008
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