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I think this list is missing one man... Tyler Clippard!I know he's not going out there throwing 100 pitches every time he takes the mound... but the kid looks worn down already! Might be time to ease up on him just a bit.
I specifically looked for him in the list, and he's down at the bottom with all the rest who are ranked at zero stress points. Kind of suspicious, not sure why he'd be that low.
Maybe the formula doesn't weight the right categories to properly project stress points for relievers. At first glance it looked to quantify the stress ranking based on number of pitches thrown, innings, etc but for a starter they would see days off between starts where as some relievers are being called upon several days in a row without rest to their arm. So while they throw fewer innings/total number of pitches it's still stressful because they don't get to rest.
Central to this system is the presumption that the threshold is the same for everybody: 100 pitches. Common sense dictates that all pitchers are not built alike; they have different builds, different work ethics, different mechanics and so on. And no, we don't know what the thresholds are for individual pitchers. PAP was not designed to be a universal yardstick, measuring all pitchers' workloads with disregard for context.If your Ford Taurus gets 24 miles to the gallon, while mine gets just 18 miles per gallon, is your car more fuel-efficient? Not necessarily; what if you drive your car on empty highways across Nebraska while mine gets stuck in rush hour traffic around San Francisco Bay? Similarly, who knows for sure if Randy Johnson is more hurt by getting 45 PAPs per start than John Snyder is racking up 20 PAPs per start?
I've never dug into the stat before, didn't even look up the definitions of the various columns, though some are self explanatory. Shocking to see Liriano getting worked so hard, too. Guy just got back and he's being ridden hard.
Shocking to see Liriano getting worked so hard, too. Guy just got back and he's being ridden hard.
Maybe that's the new inefficiency- protecting pitchers who will leave via free agency anyway. Maybe the twins are just riding him hard because they know he's gone at some point. I seem to remember Santana getting similiar treatment.
The Hotel Masturbating, Baltimore-hater drives in two for Giants. They lead 8-6 in the 12th.
These guys Huff once went on the radio and said he used to jerk off all day at the hotel on road trips because he had nothing else to do.
Bubba: "Now Aubrey, do you jack off a lot on the road, like when you're not with your wife."Huff: "It's all I do. It's all I do. You guys have no idea how much downtime there is in baseball. You wake up from a hangover about 1 o'clock."Producer shouts: "In the afternoon?"Huff: "Oh, yeah! Lemme tell you this. When you are hung over, how horny are you? I'm horny, when I'm hungover, I'm horny. So I'm just gonna beat off. And that's all I do."
(After striking out in the 6th inning) Milton Bradley took his ball and went home...http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/marinersblog/2011785415_milton_bradley_packed_up_left.html
What a jag-off.Remember when Air Awesome Guy was rooting for this idiot to become a Nat?
could you imagine an outfield of Bradley, Milledge and Dukes?
Air Awesome Guy would run onto the field with a banana in his pocket trying to capture them all in a bear hug, only to be tased by Nationals Park security
