Twins Bullpen By 2008 FIP, Entering Monday's game:
1.54 -- Craig Breslow
2.33 -- Joe Nathan
3.71 -- Dennys Reyes
3.76 -- Matt Guerrier
3.90 -- Boof Bonser
4.09 -- Jesse Crain
5.20 -- Brian Bass
Gardy had a bad night with the bullpen management, I'm afraid. Hopefully he bounces back tomorrow.
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I was putting BabySBG to bed and missed the scoring in the eighth. I came back down and saw that Bass was in. I was perplexed!
You think Gardy's trying to get Bass DFA'd too? Just kidding, but still, a mildly ostentatious move. Can something be mildly ostentatious?
No, I got it: the Sox ditched Julian Tavarez earlier this season, so now it's Gardy's job to drag a mediocre-to-poor reliever into any Boston series.
Is there any reasonable defense for using Bass there, at all? Like, was everyone else just dog-tired for a tough weekend, or something?
Even at the start of the inning, the move didn't seem to make any sense. Baker's just pitched a superb 7 innings. It's a taut, scoreless game, where 1 run could well decide the outcome. You're on the road, in a tough venue with a loud crowd, facing a good team, the defending champs, which is running neck-and-neck with the Twins in the wild card standings, so there's a lot of pressure in that spot. So of course the manager would want to tap... a rookie who's also the worst pitcher in the bullpen!?
I guess that's what makes Gardy the best manager in baseball, hey, JoePo?
He's alive!!!!!
Good call, ubes. And boy, that Breslow guy could be a closer on any other team. D'oh!
SBG, can I change my Gardy Poll vote?
Hey ubelmann (or anyone), can you direct me to where/how this season's FIP adjustment factor is derived? I sat here for about 15 minutes trying to figure why the FIPs I have on the charts I've kept this season are all higher than Hardball Times', until I realized I'd been using 3.20 all season and it looks like the adjustment for the AL is closer to 3.04.
I can't tell exactly from the description in their glossary. My guess is that if you plug in a league average strikeout rate, walk rate, and home run rate into the first term, and then subtract it from the league average ERA, you will get the constant that they add to the (HR*13+(BB+HBP-IBB)*3-K*2)/IP term. I am too lazy to check that right now, though.
Have you all heard that Dr. Stat has a brother? His name is Dr. Save and he uses his save gun to make managers incapable of using their bullpens correctly.
OMG. Fantastic.
I wonder if Reusse wrote the script for the Dr. Stat thing?
here's the link: Defenders of the Game
That is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
I will re-post as an Aside. That link deserves to be preserved for posterity.
Ubelmann, nice Strib post. Was the time stamp right? 4:34 am?
Thanks. Yeah, that time stamp was right. I'm on the west coast, so it was just 2:34am local time. The last couple of nights I just haven't gotten to bed very early.
The WGOM server hates me. After serving up several White Screens of Death last night, it just decided not to acknowledge my existance. Sort of like my kids. I'll make a sacrifice to the tube dieties tonight and see if that helps.
I agree with Ubelmann. Gardy's bullpen management last night was, um, Bass-ackwards.