Ryan Madson Has Filthy Stuff
by Bill Baer on Thursday, May 19th, 2011Posted in .gifs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 36 Comments »
No real analysis on this is needed. Ryan Madson was just incredible last night. Click the link to view some beautiful .gifs. Apologies if you run a slower machine that can't handle multiple .gifs at once.
Bullpen Misuse Leads to Another Loss
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 37 Comments »
Game is tied 1-1 going into the bottom of the ninth inning. You have the following relievers left: Ryan Madson: 10.7 K/9, 3.4 BB/9, 65% GB Danys Baez: 3.4 K/9, 3.4 BB/9, 50% GB J.C. Romero: 4.4 K/9, 4.4 BB/9, ...
Charlie Manuel Unnecessarily Taxing His Pitchers’ Arms
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 25 Comments »
The Phillies played their 40th game of the season last night against the St. Louis Cardinals. Cliff Lee threw 122 pitches, marking the 11th time a Phillies starter has thrown 110 or more pitches in a game thus far ...
Statistical Odds and Ends
by Bill Baer on Monday, May 16th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 8 Comments »
The Phillies mustered just two runs in yesterday's loss to the Atlanta Braves, marking the 21st time this season that the Phillies have scored three or fewer runs in a game this season. As they have played 39 games, that ...
Phillies Prospects Q&A with Kevin Goldstein
by Bill Baer on Friday, May 13th, 2011Posted in Interviews, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 7 Comments »
One of the perks writing at Baseball Prospectus given me is access to Kevin Goldstein. There are a lot of prospect gurus on the Internet, but few are as widely respected as Goldstein. I asked Kevin if he could fit ...
Graph of the Intermittent Time Period
by Bill Baer on Thursday, May 12th, 2011Posted in Graphs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 14 Comments »
This one is very self-explanatory. The Phillies offense, runs be damned, have hit a lot of line drives. Presently, they rank third in all of Major League Baseball with an aggregate 20.6 percent line drive rate. Only the Los Angeles ...
Frenchcoeur: Citizens Bank Park “a bandbox”
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 28 Comments »
Via FanNation: "Poor David [Wright] hits the ball to right-center so well and there it's an out," Francoeur said. ... Francoeur didn't waste time knocking his former home field after signing with the Royals in the offseason, and even though it's ...
Tuesday Links and Miscellany
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011Posted in Link Dump, Uncategorized | 13 Comments »
No time to throw up a post today, so I'm going to post a couple of miscellaneous items and then some links to good stuff around the blogosphere. Tune into Phillies 24/7 HD radio today at 2 PM ET or tomorrow ...
Better Starting Rotation: Phillies or Braves?
by Bill Baer on Monday, May 9th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 29 Comments »
ESPN ran two controversial articles yesterday: this one by Stats & Info and this one by Eno Sarris. Both mention that the Braves' rotation, currently, has posted better results than the Phillies'. It's a good story, essentially a David-is-beating-Goliath. However, ...
Fun with B-R Play Index
by Bill Baer on Saturday, May 7th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | No Comments »
By now, everyone is familiar with the addiction that comes with Baseball Reference's Play Index. I can get lost for hours on end on this page. To make matters worse, last night gave us a PI-worthy game, as Cliff ...
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