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Four 360 Degrees and Seven Trips Through the Rotation Ago

Posted by SBG on Thursday, July 27th, 2006 at 9:40 pm

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

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This report includes the five games ending on Wednesday, July 26, 2006. Let’s go to the numbers.

Trip IP R ER H BB K HBP HR ERA WHIP FIP QS
20 28.3 15 15 33 5 24 0 6 4.77 1.34 4.79 2
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 starters and a rough trip through the rotation, but most of that can be attributed to a very tough outing for Scott Baker in a 11-0 loss to the Indians. You see the innings are down, including F-Bomb, who racked up almost 100 pitches in five innings of work. The starter’s ERA was up a run over last time and the FIP was up by almost 0.50 runs. Still, the pitching as a whole was pretty good at the top of the rotation.

The defensive efficiency weren’t all that good this time around, either. Three of the last four times around the rotation, we’ve seen some poor numbers. I don’t know if it’s a symptom the problems with Silva and Baker or it’s the cause of their problems.

Trip BF BB K HBP HR ROE Hits Def_Eff
20 122 9 29 1 4 0 33 .690
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 worst defensive efficiency? When F-Bomb was on the mound. These are small sample sizes, but now we have 20 games where the numbers are down. Keep watching.

The Twins starters allowed a collective line of .287/.311/.548/.859 with a .277 GPA. The OBP is great, but the slugging percentage! The slugging percentage was very high. The Twins gave up a ton of extra base hits. Then again, the Twins weren’t playing Kansas City and Tampa Bay here, it was She-Cago and Cleveland. That might have something to do with it.

Let’s look at the individual numbers.

Pitcher AVE OBP SLG OPS GPA
Carlos Silva 0.375 0.385 0.750 1.135 0.361
Francisco Liriano 0.211 0.318 0.263 0.581 0.209
Brad Radke 0.292 0.280 0.625 0.905 0.282
Johan Santana 0.259 0.259 0.556 0.815 0.256
Carlos Silva 0.286 0.318 0.476 0.794 0.262

Once again, it’s the F-BOMB who wins the 360 Degree Hot Pitcher Award for the 20th trip around the rotation. This just in. He’s pretty good.


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