Everyone Loves Ricky Romero, Jays Beat Phillies
by Tom Dakers on Jun 26, 2009 11:38 PM EDT
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JP Riccardi has taken a lot of grief for his drafting, but let me say JP thank you for picking Ricky Romero. Except for a couple of starts after he came on the DL, he had been just great. And tonight was likely his best start going 7 innnigs allowing only 2 hits, both in the 7th inning, walking just 1 and striking out 7. He was helped out by some great defense. If you missed the double play turned by Aaron Hill in the 7th, you have to watch the highlights tonight. Anyway, 10 starts into his major league career, Ricky is 5-3 with a 3.20 ERA.
Offensively we got 8 hits and 4 runs off the best Philly starter Cole Hamels and 2 more of each off Brad Lidge, who's just off the DL. He had the same injury BJ Ryan had, Crappy Pitching Disease (CPD). Every Jay starter had at least one hit expect for Jose Bautista, who, surprise, surprise, took a walk. All the others had 1 hit, except for Adam Lind who had 2. Even Kevin Millar had a hit, though it was almost caught by a leaping Pedro Felix (Rolen would have caught it).
Jays of the Day are Romero (.354 WPA) and Alex Rios (.114). Honorable mention to Hill for a double and a great DP, Rolen and Scoot. No Suckage Jays, Millar come closest (-.081).
The bad news out of the game was that Rod Barajas left with a strained hamstring and is going onto the DL. Apparently the Jays are calling up Kyle Phillips from Vegas, Kyle is hitting .338/.404/.451. He has the best batting average on the 51s and is Jason Phillips younger brother, who played with the Jays in 2006-07, the less said about his play the better. I'm not sure how he is defensively, but I hope he gets to play some because I don't want to watch Raul Chavez play everyday.
Other good news, Roy Halladay has been cleared to pitch Monday. YAY. We do need him. Case in point, tomorrow Brad Mills starts for the Jays. J.A. Happ, another lefty (please Cito we really don't need to see both Bautista and Millar tomorrow) starts for the Phllies. You can read more about Happ in this post by Jessef.
If you are interested in reading more of my Blue Jay opinions (I can't imagine why you would be), I answered some questions for The Good Phight here. He had some interesting questions, can't say I had intersting answers but they came in the middle of a busy afternoon. Yeah I know, excuses, excuses.
The Gamethread was fun tonight, again. It looks like a few of us are going to Seattle for the Jays series at the end of July. So if you can work it out, it will be great fun and Hugo will take us all out for Chinese food one night. If he can make it. We also said we'd each buy a round of drinks after one of the games.
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That's funny
I was sure I heard Hugo was buying drinks. Huh.
Just watched at DP again. What a thing of beauty.
by Temujin on Jun 27, 2009 12:02 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
RickRo
was amazing tonight, his pitches were just devastating. Too bad he had a lot of full-count Ks and long at-bats, otherwise this could have been a game to remember for a long time. Anyway, great to see him continue to improve and it’s really looking like this kid is the real deal. I like the idea of a Marcum/Ricky/Cecil battery at some point… let alone with Doc leading them into battle
Prehistoric Hoops - a neat little Raps blog
by boo15749 on Jun 27, 2009 1:36 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Sucks that everyone in the AL East won tonight, as well as Texas and the Angels…this is gonna be a dogfight right through September
by snaptoit on Jun 27, 2009 2:28 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
That Met fan in the game thread tonight didn't hold up his end of tha bargain
Said they’d deal with the Yankees if we’d deal with the Phillies. Liar!
I do find it funny though to see their entire division lose tonight.
And I’d love to see the Jays wind up .500 in inter-league this year. Sweep the Phillies again and we do it. 7-9 at the moment. No pressure boys.
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ~Rogers Hornsby
by wroth91 on Jun 27, 2009 2:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Actually I think Eric said
that the Mets were playing lousy and we shouldn’t expect any help from them.
by Tom Dakers on Jun 27, 2009 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
UZR
Does UZR take into account hard-hit balls that make for tough plays, but doesn’t require the fielder to move much? I’m thinking of Hill’s sweet stab & DP (off Howard I think) in last night’s game.
Does it just count in indirectly, comparing plays made by player A to similar plays made/not made by player B?
Anecdotally that might be why Rolen’s UZR is merely average, because he makes great plays on hard-hit balls.
by ian1432 on Jun 27, 2009 10:06 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
i am pretty sure
uzr takes batted ball data into account, but it does not account for fielder positioning (playing in against guys who bunt or with runners on, etc.) or speed of the batter (able to beat out slow grounders, difficulty to make barehanded plays, etc.). Rolen’s UZR has actually been increasing recently. A few weeks ago his UZR/150 was (inexplicably) negative, but it is up to 3.5 now.
I am pretty sure that for the above reasons they say that the defensive data alone from one season (in essence, without any anecdotal information) really is not enough to judge a fielder on, let alone 60 some-odd games for Rolen in 2009.
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by jessef on Jun 27, 2009 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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