Refreshment Index -- April 2006

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Congratulations and ice cold suds to Tom Glavine, Duaner Sanchez and Carlos Beltran, category leaders in the Schaefer Refreshment Index for April 2006.

The Schaefer Refreshment Index uses space age technology to correlate points to plate appearances and innings pitched.

Glavine, the overall Schaefer POTG points leader in April, earned an impressive 0.546 Schaefer points per inning pitched to lead the Met starters. Duaner Sanchez� pristine performance in relief � 10.02 points in just 11 appearances and 16 innings pitched, scored a team-best 0.626 to lead the Met firemen in refreshing goodness.

Beltran, though missing a good chunk of the games in April, played like he meant it while he was active. He refreshed at .208, leading the Met hitters per plate appearance. Overall Schaefer offensive points leader Carlos Delgado edged David Wright by a hundreth of a percentage point, .179 to .178, to take second for the month.

Here are the Schaefer Refreshment Index Leaders for April:

Starting Pitcher	Innings Pitched	Schaefer Points	Refreshment Average
Tom Glavine	39.1	21.48	.546
Pedro Martinez	33.2	17.49	.519
Brian Bannister	28.0	12.69	.453
Steve Trachsel	26.2	10.14	.381
Victor Zambrano	14.0	0.42	.030

Reliever	Innings Pitched	Schaefer Points	Refreshment Average
Duaner Sanchez	16.0	10.02	.626
Billy Wagner	13.0	7.55	.581
Pedro Feliciano	6.0	3.30	.550
Aaron Heilman	13.2	5.94	.434
Darren Oliver	10.1	3.41	.330
Jorge Julio	11.2	2.27	.195

Batter	Plate Appearances	Schaefer Points	Refreshment Average
Carlos Beltran	57	11.85	.208
Carlos Delgado	110	19.70	.179
David Wright	106	18.85	.178
Xavier Nady	95	14.77	.155
Jose Reyes	112	13.49	.120
Paul LoDuca	82	9.52	.116

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think a Schaefer failing is seeing secondary penners beating closers because they are (1) less likely to perform in wins when other peeps are gobbling up points, and (2) have more room for redemptioon when they are imperfect.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Johnny, it looks like you credited Victor Zambrano with Anderson Hernandez's points.

About Sanchez and Wagner, I think there were a few games in April where I gave Duaner a higher score than Billy because the lead had widened by the time the Sandman entered. If Sanchez pitches a scoreless inning with a one-run lead, and Wagner closes with a scoreless inning and a three-run lead, I might tend to give Sanchez a higher score.

[Frayed Knot]

Nothing too complicated about it if you ask me -- Sanchez has just been better than Wagner so far this year.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

We'll see how this goes the rest of the year.

Thanks YSG -- just a typo and not a math error, fortunately.

[Guest Edgy DC]

]Nothing too complicated about it if you ask me -- Sanchez has just been better than Wagner so far this year.

And Hernandez was better than Looper last year. I still think there's an advantage. Or more particularly a disadvantage to the stopper.

[Guest old original jb]

Edgy DC wrote: ]Nothing too complicated about it if you ask me -- Sanchez has just been better than Wagner so far this year. And Hernandez was better than Looper last year. I still think there's an advantage. Or more particularly a disadvantage to the stopper.

Looper.