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Posted by SBG on Monday, July 24th, 2006 at 10:59 pm

Welcome, SBG fans, to the nineteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching.

All week long, I was thinking “Hey Nineteen” by Steely Dan. But, then I got a little Rolling Stones jones going on and the nerves got the better of me, if you know what I mean.

This report includes the five games ending on Friday, July 21, 2006. Let’s go to the numbers.

Trip IP R ER H BB K HBP HR ERA WHIP FIP QS
19 32.0 15 13 34 7 25 0 5 3.66 1.28 4.33 4
18 32.0 16 15 26 5 30 0 8 4.22 0.97 5.04 3
17 22.3 17 16 31 11 20 1 2 6.45 1.88 4.18 1
16 33.3 10 9 23 6 37 2 2 2.43 0.87 2.48 4
15 37.3 6 5 28 4 23 0 2 1.21 0.86 2.99 5
14 29 13 13 28 3 24 0 5 4.02 1.07 4.10 3
13 33.0 7 7 28 5 26 0 3 1.91 1.00 3.26 4
12 26.7 18 15 35 10 13 0 4 5.06 1.69 5.30 1
11 32.7 13 12 23 8 24 2 5 3.31 0.95 4.64 3
10 28.7 15 15 38 8 23 0 3 4.71 1.60 3.79 2
9 29.0 16 13 32 11 32 1 5 4.03 1.48 4.48 2
8 24.3 24 24 35 5 21 1 6 8.87 1.64 5.42 1
7 31.0 15 14 37 9 29 1 4 4.06 1.48 3.97 3

The Twins had a very nice ERA, but the underlying numbers weren’t as terrific. For one thing, the Twins allowed more hits than innings pitched. With the exact number of innings, walks were up, strikeouts were down, but home runs were down, too. The last three trips show a FIP markedly higher than the four trips before, but still the numbers aren’t terrible. When you consider how much crappiness Carlos Silva contributed, the numbers would be a lot better without him. Hmmm.

When you have someone give up 13 hits and doesn’t get out of the fifth inning, you have to believe that the defensive numbers won’t be good. And you’d be right.

Trip BF BB K HBP HR ROE Hits Def_Eff
19 137 7 25 0 5 3 34 .680
18 126 5 30 0 8 0 26 .783
17 104 11 20 1 2 0 31 .586
16 129 6 37 2 2 0 23 .744
15 136 4 23 0 2 0 28 .757
14 116 3 24 0 5 1 28 .714
13 127 5 26 0 3 0 28 .731
12 125 10 13 0 4 1 35 .673
11 128 8 24 2 5 1 23 .809
10 126 8 23 0 3 2 38 .598
9 125 11 32 1 5 1 32 .632
8 114 5 21 1 6 2 35 .633
7 134 9 29 1 4 3 37 .615

The numbers weren’t good, and when Carlos Silva was on the mound, the defensive efficiency was just .440. Owie.

The Twins starters allowed a collective line of .268/.299/.425/.724 with a .241 GPA. Those are good, not great, numbers. The OBP is very nice, but the slugging percentage is about average.

Let’s look at the individual numbers.

Pitcher AVE OBP SLG OPS GPA
Carlos Silva 0.296 0.321 0.519 0.840 0.274
Francisco Liriano 0.100 0.100 0.100 0.200 0.070
Brad Radke 0.160 0.160 0.400 0.560 0.172
Johan Santana 0.273 0.385 0.455 0.839 0.287
Carlos Silva 0.565 0.536 0.739 1.275 0.426

Brad Radke won last time and he did a nice job (even though his FIP was pretty high with the 2 HRs). But, make no mistake. The F-BOMB wins the 360 Degree Hot Pitcher Award for the 19th trip around the rotation. A GPA of .070? Get serious!


This entry was posted by SBG on Monday, July 24th, 2006 at 10:59 pm and is filed under 360 Degrees, MLB, Minnesota Twins. It is one of 2383 entries by the author. We are no longer accepting Letters to the Editor on this post. Why?

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Moss replied on July 24th, 2006 at 11:03 pm

Only one song should be considered -- Nineteen (or is it "19"?) by Paul Hardcastle.

 
SBG
SBG replied on July 24th, 2006 at 11:08 pm

I considered it, but the Stones win here every time.

 
bjhess replied on July 25th, 2006 at 7:09 am

I can't believe you passed up "Hey Nineteen" by Steely Dan. Seems like a no-brainer.

 
ubelmann replied on July 25th, 2006 at 3:33 pm

The numbers weren’t good, and when Carlos Silva was on the mound, the defensive efficiency was just .440. Owie.

Probably not a coincidence. Silva is broken.

 

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