Ah, nothing like cruising around for cheap relief arms with upside. In order to create room for the newly signed Chan Ho Park, the Yankees have DFA’d 29-year-old reliever Edwar Ramirez. You can read the Wikepedia article on the process of DFA, but the meat-and-potatoes lies here:
If a player is not traded, and clears waivers, [...]
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Cheap Relief Arm: Edwar Ramirez
High Heat vs. Low Heat
Playing around with some PFX tonight. I wanted to plot a graph of fastball height location vs. frequency thrown. I selected Matt Cain and Jeremey Affeldt as comparisons.
Big thanks to Joe Lefkowitz’s Pitch F/X Tool for providing the data. My deskstop is still packaged away, and with it my database. All numbers from the 2009 [...]
2010 Giants WAR Projection
It’s time for my annual Giants WAR projection post. You can find the link to the 2009 projection, here. It explains a few things in general and it’s not a bad place to start if you’ve never seen a WAR projection. But, the basics are that: a team totally devised of ‘replacement level talent’ — [...]
Is Madison Ready?
When left-hander, Madison Bumgarner, made his MLB debut last year, the top pitching prospect in the Giants organization showed up with less velocity than advertised. After working in the low-to-mid 90’s in the minor leagues, Giants fans were shocked to see Madison posting 88’s on the stadium radar gun. Velocity concerns aside, Bumgarner has a [...]
And Now Taking The Mound…The Shortstop?
On the scale of exciting Hot Stove News, the Giants signing Tony Pena Jr. to a minor league deal probably ranks near the bottom of anyone’s list. Pena Jr., the son of former baseball player Tony Pena, has spent parts of 4 seasons in the majors as a shortstop. Unfortunately for Pena, his career as [...]
MadBum FX
In a September game against the San Diego Padres, prized Giants’ prospect, Madison Bumgarner, made his major league debut at the age of 20-years-old. After being drafted in the 2007 draft, Bumgarner has made quick work of minor league hitters. In just two years, Bumgarner has thrown 273 innings, struck out 256 batters, and posted [...]
PFX’ing Sanchez’s No-Hitter
Wow, what a great game to come back to the blog with. If you didn’t know, last night Jonathan Sanchez pitched the first no-hitter of 2009 and the first Giants no-hitter since John Montefusco did it to the Braves in 1976. You’ll often hear sports fans and announcers say: ‘This game had it all’ but [...]
Sadowski FX
This is the post you’ve all been waiting for. Please, hold your excitement because I’m about to use PFX to look at Ryan Sadowski’s first major league start. Madison Bumgarner and Tim Alderson he’s not, but let’s check out what the 26-year-old was throwing in his first major league win.
The Stuff
Pitch
#
mph
pfx_x
pfx_z
spin_dir
FA (Fastball)
41
88.94
-6.62
6.05
225.68
SL (Slider)
24
87.05
1.12
2.48
155.48
CU (Curve)
20
77.5
5.93
-5.12
56.2
Sadowski appears [...]
Matt Cain’s Fastball
In today’s game against the A’s, Matt Cain pitched 9 innings of 1 run baseball with no walks and 9 strikeouts. Oddly enough, a major point with Cain this season has been that despite his newfound ability to win games — hint: sarcasm — some of his underlying peripherials have slipped slightly. Mostly his strikeouts [...]
Wednesday Plots: Randy Johnson
A super-brief post today. I’ve been sitting on a few things that I’ve been meaning to talk about but I haven’t had the time. We all know how amazing Randy Johnson’s career has been but it’s a career that started on shaky grounds. During his first few years Johnson was walking almost as many guys [...]