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Line Drive % Possible Error : Minnesota Twins 2006

 

 

 

I was throwing around different sabermetric stats and their validity, I came to the next entry on my list, Line Drive Percentage (LD%). When a batted ball is hit, it falls into one of three categories, groundball, line drive or fly ball. Seems fairly reasonable.

 

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First off, I’d like to thank all of the readers of Mop Up Duty. The site has only been around a little over two months but we’ve already amassed over 8500 hits, including over 5000 in October alone! We are committed to maintain daily updates throughout the off-season, covering the free agent market, upcoming prospects, fantasy baseball 2007, history articles. etc. But, as we’ve done so far, we’ll present unique views on the information, not a carbon copy of an ESPN report. So if you haven’t bookmarked or RSS feed us yet, make a point to do so now.

With my little rant out of the way, I’m happy to say that we’ve finally got around to adding an About Us page, which is located in the top right man corner.

2006 MLB Halloween Costumes

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Balanced vs Front Loaded Rotation: Which is Better?

I’m going to try and simplify the analysis in the coming set of articles. Using odd Sabermetrical stats can be useful when looking at certain sets of data – such as comparing players of different eras– but for the most part they just add a level of confusion. I certainly subscribe to the KISS principle in day-to-day life, so it’s time to start practing it here. Now that my little rant is over, let’s take care of business!

Recently, one of the esteemed co-columnists at the Mop Up Duty (Early), wrote an article on the Toronto Blue Jays off-season pitching needs. I’m not going to speak for him, so here is a little quote from the comments section of his article:

“… the article is proposing a balanced approach, riding Doc’s coattails, much like Minnesota rode Liriano’s pre-ASG and Santana post-ASG, all you need from the rest of your staff is to play average ball.”

(That reminds me, we’re getting a ton of visitors but few comments. Make your voice heard! If you think we’re on to something, let us know. If you think we’re full of crap, kindly let us know.)

Ok, so the basic assumption is this; Let Doc be Doc, have AJ produce an average AJ type year and have the rest of staff hover around .500.

Let’s look into this. We all know that Halladay is one of the best, and certainly the most under-rated pitcher in all of baseball. He should have a strong thirty or so starts like he does every year. Well, this theory is nothing new to the Blue Jays.

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Blue Jays Starting Pitching Situation

The Toronto Blue Jays pitching situation is not as weak as one may think and with certain tweaking could put the Jays over the threshold and into the playoffs. The one intangible that teams such as the Blue Jays depend on is health. The money that they shouldn’t spend on pitching should be spent on glaring needs at SS and locking down a catcher. All of these predictions and ramifications go out the window as soon as a star goes down. The Jays do not have the funding to be able to get an Abreau, Javy Lopez or Greg Maddux when someone is hurt. As we saw in 2006, the situation in Syracuse has to stay in Syracuse and there is very little there worth bringing to the north shore of the lake. Players at replacement level are harder to find in Syracuse than they should be. This is something that JP needs to address on his own.

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Huston Street - Postseason-Traumatic Stress Disorder

At about ten minutes to eight Eastern Time on Saturday evening, Huston Street gave up a home run to Magglio Ordonez that will be the beginning of a quick fall from grace for the Oakland closer.
Unproven playoff closers who lose deciding games for their team may never be the same. The psychological effects can be incurable. Postseason-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder seems to plague relievers, it is usually they, probably unfairly, who bear the brunt of the teams loss.

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