After a season of inconsistency, Jason Grilli finally seems to have found a groove. I decided to calculate some stats and crunch some numbers to see how Grilli has fared in allowing inherited runners to score.
Via Billfer: Stat of the Day » Best & Worst Inherited Runner Scoring Percentage
Bobby Seay is amongst the best at stranding runners and Tim Byrdak is amongst the worst.
I went and calculated Grilli's inherited runners v. inherited runners scored. He has inherited 50 runners, and allowed 14 of them to score. This means 28% of the runners Grilli has inherited have scored. What this says is that Grilli is jushttp://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7004180488361536292&postID=2199810234458422369t outside the top 25 in stranding inherited runners; Gary Glover is number 25 at 21%. Santiago Casilla is the best at 5%, while Ruddy Lugo is the worst at 59%.
So this means Grilli is not terrible at keeping inherited runners from scoring. One less reason to rag on the guy, perhaps?
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
No. 756
You know, I can't really say I didn't want him to do it or that I did want him to do it. I guess I really just don't care. Baseball has a new homerun record, okay. I'm not celebrating Barry Bonds, and I'm not tearing him down either. I have no feelings for or against him. I'm mostly glad we can put this behind us and just move on. I was starting to get tired of ESPN forcing Bonds down our throats 24/7. "Will he hit it? When will he hit it? Will Hank be there?" It's over and done with, and now we can move on. I think I was suffering from Barry Bonds Burnout at that point. :P
There's always going to be a "shadow" following Bonds and his pursuit of the record, because of what he allegedly did. In some ways that saddens me and in some ways I just don't care. That's a by-product of the steroids era, and that's just how it is. No matter how many players actually did steroids or HGH or whatever, nearly every player who played in this era will have that shadow following him around simply because he played during this era. That saddens me too, a little.
But anyway. I hope A-Rod is the next to chase the homerun record. I could actually see myself getting into that homerun race. It would be fun to be invested in that kind of record chase, on either side of the fence.
There's always going to be a "shadow" following Bonds and his pursuit of the record, because of what he allegedly did. In some ways that saddens me and in some ways I just don't care. That's a by-product of the steroids era, and that's just how it is. No matter how many players actually did steroids or HGH or whatever, nearly every player who played in this era will have that shadow following him around simply because he played during this era. That saddens me too, a little.
But anyway. I hope A-Rod is the next to chase the homerun record. I could actually see myself getting into that homerun race. It would be fun to be invested in that kind of record chase, on either side of the fence.
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