Well, we’ve passed the fifteen game mark, and so it’s time for another 360 degrees. The purpose of this feature is to chart the progress of our starting staff throughout the year. This trip features games 11-15 on the season. The two of those games were against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays [...]

Well, we’ve passed the ten game mark, and so it’s time for another 360 degrees. The purpose of this feature is to chart the progress of our starting staff throughout the year. This trip features games 6-10 on the season. The first three of those games were against the New York Yankees [...]

It’s five games into the new season and that means that it’s time to take a look at our starting pitching staff in a feature I call 360 Degrees. The purpose of this feature is to chart the progress of our starting staff throughout the year. Of course, this being the first five [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the twentieth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching.
Perhaps the most famous speech in the history of the country was delivered at Gettysburg, PA. I’ve stood on the spot where Lincoln delivered his famous Address. The battlefields at Gettysburg are interesting, but it’s clear [...]

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 [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the eighteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching.
Alice Cooper sang in the song “I’m Eighteen” that he was “in the middle of life”. Well, if he meant that his life was half over, he was wrong about that. I actually heard the song [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the seventeenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching.
Seventeen is my number – I was born on the seventeenth day of the year in 1965. I share my birthday with a first cousin. In addition, another of my first cousins was born [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the sixteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching. I could have called this edition the Frank Viola Edition, but Frankie V was one of my favorite Twins ever and I was being snarky when I named the last (Christian Guzman Memorial Edition) entry, so we'll [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the fifteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching. The further we go, the harder it is to come up with a title for these things (as we can see here), but I've also found that wikipedia has an entry on numbers and we find out [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the fourteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching. This report includes the five games ending on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. It’s clear now that the Twins pitching starting pitching staff is pitching the way we expected they would at the start of the season. [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the thirteenth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching. This report includes the five games ending on Friday, June 15, 2006. Last time, I wrote about how the Twins pitching was pretty bad, with a 5.19 FIP. And now for something completely different. [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the twelfth edition of 360 Degrees, a regular report on the Twins starting pitching. This report includes the five games ending on Friday, June 9, 2006. This trip around the rotation was, in one sense, one of the worst trips around the rotation all year. The pitching staff had [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the eleventh edition of 360 Degrees. This report includes the five games ending on Saturday with the 2005ish 2-1 loss to the Oakland A’s. What a trip around the rotation this was! It started with the last start by Scott Baker for a while – he’s now hanging [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the tenth edition of 360 Degrees. This is one game late and doesn’t include the Baker start on Tuesday. I suppose 360 lashes with a wet noodle are in order. For the second consecutive time, the trip includes two starts by one pitcher – this time it’s Brad [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the ninth edition of 360 Degrees.  In the previous eight rounds only five men started for the Twins.  This time we had starters number six and seven going, allowing me to go to an obscure Rolling Stones reference in the title.
And guess what?  Putting a couple of young guys in the [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the eighth edition of 360 Degrees, a look at the last trip around the rotation.  The Twins have now played forty games, which means it’s also time for an eight-pack.  First things first.  Did you hear?  Things are about to change.  In the off-season, while SBG was advocating cutting Kyle Lohse [...]

Welcome, SBG fans, to the seventh edition of 360 Degrees, a look at the last trip around the rotation.  Of course, you are probably aware that this "trip" includes two starts by Johan Santana.  As KING OF SBG, THE WORLD'S GREATEST ONLINE MAGAZINE, I decreed that a trip around the rotation means five games, regardless [...]

Welcome the the sixth edition of 360 Degrees.
This trip around the rotation started rather promisingly, with three starts in a row in which the starter went seven innings and gave up one run.  Of course, those starts were against Kansas City and Seattle.  The question, of course, was how the starting rotation would do when [...]

It's the top of the sixth and I can write the fifth edition of 360 Degrees.  One would expect nothing less, as only one starter completed six innings this time around. Let's get this over with.
IP:  24 -- Only 4.8 Innings per start
R:   29
ER: 29
H:   44
K:   18
BB: 4
HP:  3
HR: 9
ERA: 10.87
WHIP: 2.00
FIP: 6.49
QS: 1
Things started promisingly [...]

Welcome to the fourth edition of 360 Degrees, a trip around the rotation.  First, let's go to the numbers.
IP:  30.34
R:   19
ER: 19
H:   40
K:   22
BB: 10
HP:  1
HR: 6
ERA: 5.64
WHIP: 1.65
FIP: 4.91
QS: 3
With an ERA of 5.64 and a WHIP of 1.65, you might look at that Quality Start number and not believe that this crew actually got [...]

Oy vey.
Welcome to another edition of 360 Degrees, our once every five games look at the Twins starting pitching rotation.
The last time we looked at the rotation, my one word summary was BETTER.  This time, the one word summary is HORRIBLE.
First let's go to the numbers:
IP:  29 1/3
R:   30
ER: 28
H:   43
K:   9!
BB: 6
HP:  1
HR: 5
ERA: [...]

Well, better late than never, I suppose.
With the trip back to SBGville this weekend and the coincidental timing of having a nephew born while I was there, well if I'd have run down the basement and started tapping away on the Internet for an hour or two, I would have had to answer to just [...]

I read the Twins blogs and there are all kinds of good things out there.  Will Young has been doing his thing with the WPA win charts (Will, I've figured out how to prevent the comment box from going goofy when someone tries to comment e-mail me and I'll tell you the trick).  Aaron and [...]