A New Bambino in Arizona?
Posted by E-6 on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Sure, sure, Santana is a fine hitting pitcher, but c'mon!!!
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I'm using him as a PH for my Diamond Mind team when he's not starting for me since I'm in a DH league. I usually use him to hit for my catchers (a Michael Barrett/Kurt Suzuki platoon). Quite the extra weapon.
Dude had a 16 VORP last year at the plate last year! Only 4 Twins position players had a better VORP than that last year! 16 maybe doesn't seem that big, but over the span of 27 games, that's enough too make a .500 pitcher into a .560 pitcher--which is not insignificant in my book.
This year, before the PH HR, he had a 3.8 VORP. Only two Twins hitters have a better VORP than that.
ubes, remind us. Those VORPs are projections for a whole season based on to-date performance, right? How do they scale the hitting component for pitchers, who (Micah Owings aside) prolly won't hit in more than 35 games?
Nope, VORP is not projected. His VORP is as compared to other pitchers. So, if he hits in 35 games, one wouldn't expect a very large VORP.
What would you do if you had this guy on an AL team?
DH him when he's not pitching? Or just use him to PH? Can he play LF in a pinch? What about 1B?
Do you waive the DH when he's pitching?
He was a 1b at Tulane when not pitching and Bob Melvin has mentioned using him there on occasion this year in double-switches.
If he has any sort of platoon splits as a pitcher, that could be utilized quite nicely. Bobby Cox did a similar thing early this year - the righty faced his hitter. Lefty pitcher came in, RHP moved to LF, LF came out. Next batter, RHP moved back to the mound. And promptly gave up the run.