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c'mon, david. i expect that shit from castillo. but you?

i wonder who pitches this one...

yup, and he slid to the back of the bag, too

im pretty sure he was indeed out. but, again, fox sucks at showing replays

a home run and we tie the record!

man, fox sucks at showing replays... man, the mets fucking suck.

well, if we don;t get some hits now...

eek...

grr...

2 for 2 with a homer and 2 walks is getting barely more beer than 2 innings of blowout relief with 2 walks and 3 strikeouts?

Wright 4.4 Valdes 2.0 Takahashi 1.7 Mejia 1.4 Bay 0.4 Reyes 0.1

y'know, i've always felt their interlocking ny looked kinda sloppy

makes me feel better about giving igarashi a 3.0, at least...

edgy, without getting too deep into your methodology, how are you giving so much love to perez? 4 earned, 4 walks, and 2 bequeathed runners in a 5.2 inning losing effort can't be almost double the next best guy, can it?

ooh, nice. sometime later, we can turn those post numbers into some sort of graphical representation of how the team progress through the year...

Jacobs 3.9 Francoeur 2.6 Valdes 2.1 Igarashi 0.7 Rodriguez 0.6 Wright 0.1

Igarashi 3.0 Mejia 1.5 Tatis 1.4 Feliciano 1.1 Wright 0.9 Castillo 0.5

Barajas 3.1 Francoeur 2.2 Pelfrey 1.9 Wright 1.0 Takahashi 0.8 Nieve 0.5 Mejia 0.5

well, you could always look at run expectancy... for instance, rod barajas contributed 1.68 RE24 and jeff francoeur contributed 2.14 RE24, compared to pelfrey's 0.89 RE24. RE24 (runs above average by the 24 base/out states): RE24 is the difference in run expectancy (RE) between the start of the play and the end of the play. That difference is then credited/debited to the batter and the pitcher. Over the course of the season, each players� RE24 for individual plays is added up to get his season total RE24. so francoeur basically contributed 2.5 times what pelfrey did, and barajas doubled up pelfrey. it would appear that the going rate for a pitcher is that he should be expected to allow 0.48 runs per inning pitched. allowing 2 runs in 6 innings puts him at 0.89 runs below the expected 6 * 0.48 = 2.88 (we'll assume it rounds up to 2.89). y'know, it would be interested if somebody would craft up a 'bot specifically to provide schafer voting based on run expectancy... such voting would probably look like this: francoeur 2.66 barajas 2.08 wright 0.84 pelfrey 0.82 tatis 0.6 takahashi 0.6 nieve 0.6 mejia 0.6 cora 0.47 tejada 0.47 pagan 0.27 or, possibly like this: francoeur 3.5 barajas 2.75 wright 1.11 pelfrey 1.08 tatis 0.78 takahashi 0.78 note: in my discussion above, i forgot about pelfrey's negative contributions with the bat. voters tend to do that, i think. he cost the team 0.23 runs, giving him a net of only 0.66 RE24 for the game, which is clearly a lesser contribution than either francoeur or barajas made.

boo

good heavens, that mcfaddens ad is awful

Francoeur 1.9 Feliciano 1.5 Pagan 1.0 Igarashi 0.8 Castillo 0.5 Takahashi 0.3

Nieve 2.5 Castillo 1.8 Bay 1.8 Wright 1.5 Rodriguez 1.3 Tatis 1.1

what is the penalty for a batter leaving the batters box without time being called? is there any?