Monday, May 14, 2007
The Sac Fly Watch & My Fucking Blew Jays
Once I got deep into baseball-stats, I pretty much concluded that Closers weren't a necessity, at least not strictly for the ninth-inning...then, BJ Ryan went down, and it was like the Jays couldn't end games. I'm not talking "there's nobody else to close out the opposition", I'm talking UNENDING GAMES, games that would continue seemingly into the ether, going on & on until Toronto wasn't losing games so much as watching time and space float away with a scoresheet attached.
Ryan should win Team MVP just by his absence, fucking hell.
Regardless, unlike the end of Blue Jays games, time does move forward, and, as such, here are some RBI-padding machines:
Orlando Hudson
Carlos Lee
Bobby Abreu
Ray Durham
Andre Ethier
Gary Matthews Jr
O-Dog & Lee are tied for the Sac Fly lead with 5 apiece; the account for, respectively, 18 & 14 percent of their total RBI.
Now, let the excitement build.
(While building said excitement, how good a year is Hudson having?
.313/.380/.510/.890
13.8 VORP after some 30-odd games
projected totals:
25 HR 37 2B 4 3B 116 RBI
Not bad for a second-sacker...but it is, indeed, early.)
Flush with excitement, we look to the last four above, all knotted-up with 4 Sac Flies each, and their respective RBI%:
Abreu: 21%
Durham: 19%
Ethier: 21%
Matthews: 19%
Those seem pretty high; let's see what these cats are "on-pace" for, RBI-wise:
Abreu: 86
Durham: 92
Ethier: 88
Matthews: 90
Wow, huh? They're all on pace for around 18 Sac Flies as well, which means that they'll fall short of the Legend of Gil Hodges, and no-one will care. Though, should someone "catch fire" in the Sac Fly department, well, maybe they begin their own Legend for no-one to care about!
...Fucking Blue Jays. ¶ 9:24 PM 0 Comments
Ryan should win Team MVP just by his absence, fucking hell.
Regardless, unlike the end of Blue Jays games, time does move forward, and, as such, here are some RBI-padding machines:
Orlando Hudson
Carlos Lee
Bobby Abreu
Ray Durham
Andre Ethier
Gary Matthews Jr
O-Dog & Lee are tied for the Sac Fly lead with 5 apiece; the account for, respectively, 18 & 14 percent of their total RBI.
Now, let the excitement build.
(While building said excitement, how good a year is Hudson having?
.313/.380/.510/.890
13.8 VORP after some 30-odd games
projected totals:
25 HR 37 2B 4 3B 116 RBI
Not bad for a second-sacker...but it is, indeed, early.)
Flush with excitement, we look to the last four above, all knotted-up with 4 Sac Flies each, and their respective RBI%:
Abreu: 21%
Durham: 19%
Ethier: 21%
Matthews: 19%
Those seem pretty high; let's see what these cats are "on-pace" for, RBI-wise:
Abreu: 86
Durham: 92
Ethier: 88
Matthews: 90
Wow, huh? They're all on pace for around 18 Sac Flies as well, which means that they'll fall short of the Legend of Gil Hodges, and no-one will care. Though, should someone "catch fire" in the Sac Fly department, well, maybe they begin their own Legend for no-one to care about!
...Fucking Blue Jays. ¶ 9:24 PM 0 Comments
