Seattle: 50-77
Minnesota: 73-55
| MARINERS | Δ Ms | TWINS | EDGE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HITTING (wOBA) |
-137.7 (30th) | -4.8 | 65.6 (3rd) | Minnesota |
| FIELDING (UZR) | 10.8 (9th) | 0.0 | 24.3 (8th) | Minnesota |
| ROTATION (tRA) |
13.4 (13th) | 6.0 | 49.8 (2nd) | Minnesota |
| BULLPEN (tRA) |
-28.9 (29th) | -1.7 | 24.2 (6th) | Minnesota |
| OVERALL(RAA) |
-142.3 (26th) | -0.4 | 163.9 (1st) | MINNESOTA |
I was sad to see the offense slip down again, but huzzah to the rotation for taking a big leap forward during the Red Sox series. It might not have seemed like they pitched well since Boston scored five runs off Fister and four off Pauley, but both of them avoided any home runs, kept the walks low and generated a lot of ground balls and very few line drives. That's a recipe for a good tRA.
For your information, the Rays are the second best overall team by the above measures and they're at 111 runs above average. The Twins are just really really good in these categories.
Hoping to see Jose Lopez catch up on his 50-walk goal? I wouldn't count on it against these three starters.
I enjoy these matchups because each one is like seeing the Twins put out the archetype for each pitching model and the Mariners are running out the clone. And not even the good quality first-run clones, but like the clones from the model that's been used up and sold to a public Middle School.
Jason Vargas comes from the Scott Baker mold but had his polarity reversed and lost some strikeouts along the way. Doug Fister comes from the Nick Blackburn model line and Luke French is just bad.
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0 recs | 8 comments
Luke French may be bad
But he still has that whole ‘not Jarrod Washburn’ thing going for himself.
Eyeball Kid - August 27, 2010
Luke French and Carl Pavano are so dissimilar that their faces are even oriented in different directions in their profile pictures
Jeff Sullivan - August 27, 2010
This from the Department of the Horribly Obvious:
The Twins are a damn good baseball team.
And all this without Morneau.
JLProck - August 27, 2010
When is he due back?
sanford_and_son - August 27, 2010
Reports I've seen don't state a timetable.
But he’s been working out some.
JLProck - August 27, 2010
Nick Blackburn has 40 strikeouts in 111 innings.
I can’t imagine that any major league starter is worse than that.
Hillstop - August 27, 2010
Nick Blackburn does indeed have the fewest number of strikeouts amongst pitchers with 100+ IP.
John Lannan isn’t too far ahead with 42 K’s.
JLProck - August 27, 2010
Sometimes it's useful to look beyond just this season
Matthew - August 27, 2010
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