I.G.T. 5/5/15 Orioles v Mets Norris v. Colon

[Lefty Specialist]

You know, we've really privileged to watch Lagares play center. Just hope he didn't hurt himself.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Harvey's wonderful and all, but you know what? Colon's the real pitching lover's pitcher on this staff.

[Lefty Specialist]

Cuddyer is going to kill Lagares eventually. Maybe he knows Juan doesn't like his fedora.

[ashie62]

Colon beaten by one of the best young players in the game.

But Bar-to-lo leaves up 3-1.

[Lefty Specialist]

As Bob Murphy used to say, fasten your seatbelts.

[G-Fafif]

The curse of Brian Stokes hovers over Familia.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Nice crisp game!

[Lefty Specialist]

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Victorious

[Frayed Knot]

One of those games where it seemed like we should have had more than 3 runs - on the other hand if we didn't bunch those doubles the way we did then it could have been even fewer.
Pitching was great, Machado and Davis can do that to anyone (you know both were gone before they cleared the infield airspace) so there's nothing to worry about on that front.
Nice to get back on the winning side; going for the sweep tomorrow.

Edited May 5, 2015 by Guest

[ashie62]

Well done Metsies, keep it rolling!

[TransMonk]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Colon's the real pitching lover's pitcher on this staff.

Agreed. I don't know that I've ever used this phrase about any player, but Bartolo Colon gives me wood.

[Benjamin Grimm]

So far this year, Colon has walked one batter in 40.1 innings.

I would think that this is a pretty rare feat, but I haven't noticed that anyone has noticed this. Could it be that it's not as rare as I'm thinking it is?

[Edgy MD]

It looks like a typo, doesn't it?

Folks have noticed. Anthony Rieber joined the booth last night and noted his strikeout:walk ratio and joked, "And that's the sort of thing the scouts are looking for."

[Frayed Knot]

Bartolo's walk rate so far this season is less than half that of even the 2nd best in the majors and 1/3 that of the guy in 3rd
- Colon = .223 [walks per/9 innings]
- Jason Hammell (CHC) = .575
- Michael Pineda (NYY) = .686
- Josh Collmenter (ARZ) = .827
- Phil Hughes (MIN) = .956

and those are the only five guys (counting both leagues) that are even under 1.00

Not sure how historically out of line this is. Bret Saberhagen is a guy I think of for low walks and his lowest over a full season (it was his 3rd season as a Met) was 0.6598


oe: ah, here we go, lowest since 1900 is Carlos Silva for the 2005 Twins: 0.4301
To illustrate how freakish Silva's 2005 was, it, Saberhagen's (shortened season) 1994, and Phil Hughes from last year [0.6868] are the only seasons since 1920 in the top 50 of all time.

Edited May 6, 2015 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

He walked Ryan Zimmerman in the sixth inning on opening day, after he had already whiffed Zimmerman twice. The walk set up runners on first and second with two out, but he then whiffed Wilson Ramos.

He's now gone 34 2/3 innings without a walk. The record, amazingly, is 84 1/3 innings, by Bill Fischer of the Kansas City Athletics, in 1962. Fischer was good but not great overall that year, swinging between the rotation and the bullpen, but he was probably the best they had, and they should've stuck with him as a starter. He probably made the games too short and cut into the beer sales.

[Ceetar]

having trouble finding a way to search for pitching streaks w/ only one walk.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/bases_on_balls_per_nine_season.shtml

The single season bb/9 leaderboard is full of 19th century guys, and Carlos Silva 2005 at .43

[Guest d'Kong76]

I was messing with some BB and OBP stuff on some bbr page
I never went to and it gave me results but not the top ten of what
I was querying and I noticed on the upper top right there was a link
to pay $15 for the service? I had to stop anyway, but when did bbr
start offering pay-for-use services?

[batmagadanleadoff]

So far this year, Colon has walked one batter in 40.1 innings. I would think that this is a pretty rare feat, but I haven't noticed that anyone has noticed this. Could it be that it's not as rare as I'm thinking it is?

If the season ended today, Colon would have the record for most IP's in a season while walking exactly one batter.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/season_finder.cgi?type=p#gotresults&as=result_pitcher&offset=0&sum=0&min_year_season=1901&max_year_season=2015&min_season=1&max_season=-1&min_age=0&max_age=99&is_rookie=&lg_ID=lgAny&lgAL_team=tmAny&lgNL_team=tmAny&lgFL_team=tmAny&lgAA_team=tmAny&lgPL_team=tmAny&lgUA_team=tmAny&lgNA_team=tmAny&isActive=either&isHOF=either&isAllstar=either&throws=any&role=anyrole&games_started=60&games_relieved=80&qualifiersSeason=nomin&minIpValS=162&minDecValS=14&mingamesValS=40&qualifiersCareer=nomin&minIpValC=1000&minDecValC=100&mingamesValC=200&number_matched=1&orderby=IPouts&order_by_asc=1&layout=full&c1criteria=BB&c1gtlt=eq&c1val=1&c2criteria=IPouts&c2gtlt=gt&c2val=16&c3criteria=&c3gtlt=eq&c3val=0&c4criteria=&c4gtlt=eq&c4val=0&c5criteria=&c5gtlt=eq&c5val=1.0&c6criteria=&location=pob&locationMatch=is&pob=&pod=&pcanada=&pusa=&ajax=1&submitter=1

http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/season_finder.cgi?type=p#gotresults&as=result_pitcher&offset=0&sum=0&min_year_season=1901&max_year_season=2015&min_season=1&max_season=-1&min_age=0&max_age=99&is_rookie=&lg_ID=lgAny&lgAL_team=tmAny&lgNL_team=tmAny&lgFL_team=tmAny&lgAA_team=tmAny&lgPL_team=tmAny&lgUA_team=tmAny&lgNA_team=tmAny&isActive=either&isHOF=either&isAllstar=either&throws=any&role=anyrole&games_started=60&games_relieved=80&qualifiersSeason=nomin&minIpValS=162&minDecValS=14&mingamesValS=40&qualifiersCareer=nomin&minIpValC=1000&minDecValC=100&mingamesValC=200&number_matched=1&orderby=IPouts&layout=full&c1criteria=BB&c1gtlt=eq&c1val=1&c2criteria=IPouts&c2gtlt=gt&c2val=11&c3criteria=&c3gtlt=eq&c3val=0&c4criteria=&c4gtlt=eq&c4val=0&c5criteria=&c5gtlt=eq&c5val=1.0&c6criteria=&location=pob&locationMatch=is&pob=&pod=&pcanada=&pusa=&ajax=1&submitter=1

[Guest d'Kong76]

Well that's one guy who might know who won't tell me! lol
Anyone else know? I only went to bbr for player, team, and
well, reference type stuff in the past.

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: I was messing with some BB and OBP stuff on some bbr page I never went to and it gave me results but not the top ten of what I was querying and I noticed on the upper top right there was a link to pay $15 for the service? I had to stop anyway, but when did bbr start offering pay-for-use services?

the play-index page is great. It's always (for a while?) been a pay service for all the results. you can sometimes tweak it (sort by the reverse thing and scroll to the end)

but if you run as many queries as I do and are as lazy about setting up your own db (particularly for current season!) it's well worth it.

It's only $15 with a draftkings deposit. otherwise I think it's $30 with code 'bp'.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Thanks, I guess I never notice it as that site got bigger and bigger.

[Guest d'Kong76]

And not to turn this into the bbr thread, but they pissed me off years
ago with some of their pricing strategies. For years I sponsored 3-4
player pages and then all of a sudden when it came time to renew the
price (at least on one specific page) was jacked up like 500%. Thanks,
but no thanks.