... Ryan Dempster?
- Looking at a few things: His LOB% this year is 59% (Percentage that batters are stranded). The last few years before that: 76.7%, 73.2%, and 71.0%. So, that's a definite issue. His BABiP isn't ridonkulously higher than before: .326 while the career mark is .302.
- His HR/FB% has shot all the way up to 22% while averaging around 11% during his career
- He is throwing roughly half his pitches into the strike zone, which is fine, but his SwStrk% is 8.5% while it's been in the 11 range for 2008-2010
- Another thing that I found intriguing is that on his pitch type percentage, it show the FB, SL, and SF with percentages all adding up to 100, but then on the side it shows "XX" (unknown) at 20% while it's been around 4% most of his career. Looking at the leaders in this stat, the leader is Alexi Ogando with 34%. One thing peculiar is that there are about 20 people above 15% and then it drops off to 7.6% for Michael Pineda and then to the (what I presume to be) normal numbers of 4% and below. So, maybe Ryan is throwing up some meatballs? I'm not sure. There are plenty of pitchers doing very well with high numbers of XX%
Really, I'm not sure if I can see an explanation of why he sucks now. I haven't been able to watch him for more than the last start against Colorado and I was doing other stuff around the house while it was going on. Plus, I usually choose to not trust my eyes in trying to evaluate someone, because we all have confirmation biases and once we decide a player is some arbitrary classification, then we will be sure to see that in each subsequent instance each time it occurs.
One thing that I have noticed is that Ryan's numbers have gone down each year from 2008-2010 (and 11 of course). To me, the one thing that is encouraging is the face that his xFIP is 3.70, so maybe he won't suck the rest of the year.
He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here.
Rothschild is gone and he's now old. It's pretty much that simple
He's an overrated white guy who's been able to milk it for 8 years in Chicago. He should be applauded, really.
Well, I've watched Opening Day, the start against the Astros, and Saturday. My untrained eye tells me he lacks stamina, or something. He seems to do okay for about 4 innings and then the moonshots come in the 5th or 6th. I mean he was one bad call away from giving up back-to-back-to-back homers in the 6th in Houston and the home runs to Barajas, Blake, and Kemp were in the same location. So my answer to you is that he throws shitty fastballs when he's tired.
Quote from: SKO on April 25, 2011, 07:19:36 AM
My untrained eye tells me he lacks stamina, or something.
What that is, is hard to define.
Ryan Dempster sucks.
Quote from: BBM on April 24, 2011, 10:22:21 AM
He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here.
Rothschild is gone and he's now old. It's pretty much that simple
Yankees team ERA: 4.21. Cubs team ERA: 5.15. I blame Huey for running the guy out of town.
Quote from: R-V on April 25, 2011, 08:24:23 AM
Quote from: BBM on April 24, 2011, 10:22:21 AM
He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here.
Rothschild is gone and he's now old. It's pretty much that simple
Yankees team ERA: 4.21. Cubs team ERA: 5.15. I blame Huey for running the guy out of town.
What we lost, what we never knew we had.
Quote from: R-V on April 25, 2011, 08:24:23 AM
Quote from: BBM on April 24, 2011, 10:22:21 AM
He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here.
Rothschild is gone and he's now old. It's pretty much that simple
Yankees team ERA: 4.21. Cubs team ERA: 5.15. I blame Huey for running the guy out of town.
FDB has been calling for LAWRENCE ROTHSCHILD'S head for years. I blame them
Quote from: Yeti on April 25, 2011, 09:11:01 AM
Quote from: R-V on April 25, 2011, 08:24:23 AM
Quote from: BBM on April 24, 2011, 10:22:21 AM
He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here.
Rothschild is gone and he's now old. It's pretty much that simple
Yankees team ERA: 4.21. Cubs team ERA: 5.15. I blame Huey for running the guy out of town.
FDB has been calling for LAWRENCE ROTHSCHILD'S head for years. I blame them
It SHOULDN'T MATTER if Rudy Jaramillo had turned our offense around like we were promised.
Quote from: BH on April 25, 2011, 09:22:21 AM
Quote from: Yeti on April 25, 2011, 09:11:01 AM
Quote from: R-V on April 25, 2011, 08:24:23 AM
Quote from: BBM on April 24, 2011, 10:22:21 AM
He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here.
Rothschild is gone and he's now old. It's pretty much that simple
Yankees team ERA: 4.21. Cubs team ERA: 5.15. I blame Huey for running the guy out of town.
FDB has been calling for LAWRENCE ROTHSCHILD'S head for years. I blame them
It SHOULDN'T MATTER if Rudy Jaramillo had turned our offense around like we were promised.
But he did.
Why don't they make the entire Ryan Dempster out of airline food?
Quote from: Yeti on April 24, 2011, 06:39:33 AMPlus, I usually choose to not trust my eyes in trying to evaluate someone, because we all have confirmation biases and once we decide a player is some arbitrary classification, then we will be sure to see that in each subsequent instance each time it occurs.
Yeti plucks out his eyes and searches for them where it's brighter. Film at 11.
Pause? (http://www.thegrio.com/sports/pause-is-this-catchphrase-homophobic-or-humorous.php)
He is a fucking dick sucking faggot
the staff ace?
I don't have access to B-R's gamefinder or whatever it's called, but I have a hard time imagining someone else having as epically shitty of a start as that. That was pretty godawful.
Edit: Well, found one. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TEX/TEX199405110.shtml
This one was pretty forgettable, apparently. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200908140.shtml
The writing appeared on the wall in that Game 1 against the Dodgers. Glad that the spiral into shittiness has bottomed out. That or Dempster thinks his Carlos Silva impersonation is hilarious.
He's obviously injured. I think he's got something wrong with his back. He's trying to take one for the team and pitch through but it's not working. The way he's leaving pitches up tells me it's probably his back. Velocity is there, he's not limping. Stiff back.
Quote from: CubFaninHydePark on April 28, 2011, 09:41:31 PM
The writing appeared on the wall in that Game 1 against the Dodgers. Glad that the spiral into shittiness has bottomed out. That or Dempster thinks his Carlos Silva impersonation is hilarious.
The writing was on the wall based upon one start 18 months ago?
The spiral into shittiness included 215 innings with a 113 ERA+?
You are not a good sports fan.
Quote from: PenPho on April 29, 2011, 11:12:56 AM
Quote from: CubFaninHydePark on April 28, 2011, 09:41:31 PM
The writing appeared on the wall in that Game 1 against the Dodgers. Glad that the spiral into shittiness has bottomed out. That or Dempster thinks his Carlos Silva impersonation is hilarious.
The writing was on the wall based upon one start 18 months?
The spiral into shittiness included 215 innings with a 113 ERA+?
You are not a good sports fan.
I thought he meant last Saturday's game against the Dodgers when he couldn't hold a 4-run lead. I was thinking, "That was game two. What a dumbass." This is another thing entirely. I knew that the prequels were going to suck as soon as I saw Luke get his hand cut off in Empire. That looked fake as hell.
Screw Dempster, I want to know what the fuck is up with the Wiesenthal Center feting Tom Cruise (http://askthescientologist.blogspot.com/2011/04/whats-wrong-with-simon-wiesenthal.html).
...Darwin Barney. This is really bothering me. Is he good? I refuse to get sucked into this.
Quote from: Slaky on May 01, 2011, 08:30:44 PM...Darwin Barney. This is really bothering me. Is he good? I refuse to get sucked into this.
It depends. Maybe one of our resident stat penises can answer this - how common is it for a player to outperform his minor league stats? Because I think that's what Darwin is going to have to do to be good for real instead of being good for a month.
Career minor league OBP of .334, slugging of .374. This year he's sitting at .351 and .449. I think he'd need to
- OBP at least .350
- slug over .400
- continue to play great defense
- continue to know his ass from his elbow on the basepaths
to be a legit starter long-term. We can count on 3 and 4 but not so sure about 1 and 2.
Quote from: R-V on May 01, 2011, 09:12:26 PM
Quote from: Slaky on May 01, 2011, 08:30:44 PM...Darwin Barney. This is really bothering me. Is he good? I refuse to get sucked into this.
It depends. Maybe one of our resident stat penises can answer this - how common is it for a player to outperform his minor league stats?
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