week 12 ass hDLes...and a little fun with statistics

There are only a couple of ass hDLes this week, and I am going to pretty much gloss over them, one...because I can and you cant stop me, two...because they are mostly bit type players whose loss doesnt qualify as a huge hit to either team they are hurting.

If I owned him, I might drop him for crimes
against my WHIP and against common sense
and good judgement.

RP Brett Cecil - Les Moles-  Cecil went on the DL on Wednesday (6/18) with a pulled groin (not the good kind). Cecil was a waiver add a few weeks back for Tom and since he has been on Tom's team, he has recorded a 3.55 ERA with 8 SV/H and 13 Ks over 12 innings; that's the good.  The bad?  He has a 2.05 WHIP in those 12 innings.  He has struggled all season with walks (as have all Blue Jays pitchers for some reason).  Perhaps the Blue Jays should rethink the strategy behind having a pitching coach named Pete WALKER whose biggest baseball achievement was that he won 20 games.  Not 20 games in one season, 20 games total in 8 MLB seasons (19 wins with Toronto, including 10 in 2002).  2002ish was not at the peak of my MLB watching, but I have absolutely zero recollection of someone named Pete Walker throwing 140 innings and winning 10 games (he was second on team in wins to someone named Roy Halladay, who had 19).  Anyways, maybe the Blue Jays should try hiring a pitching coach named Dontarrio Dontgiveupahit and see if that works for them.

SP/RP Drew Pomeranz - Huckleberries - There is a list of things that MLB players should do when they have a rough game as Pomeranz did in his most recent outing, where he gave up 10 base runners and 7 runs in 3 2/3 innings.  Trying to punch a chair in the face should not be on this list.  Pomeranz didnt get that memo and he tried to beat up a chair on his way back to the club house and broke his right hand.  At least he listend to Crash Davis and used his non pitching hand.  Pomeranz was one of Kevin's multitude of waiver adds, and up until this most recent outing, had been spectacular in his 2 starts for the Huckleberries, throwing 14 innings, allowing only 3 runs and striking out 9.  There is no time table on his return.  Who knew that floppy right hand packed enough punch to break bones?

I always love it when players get so mad that they hurt themselves doing something stupid, or just when they hurt themselves doing something stupid when they arent mad.  If I see one of those "craziest injuries" slide shows or lists on some random interwebs site, I have a near complusion to look at it.  It isnt quite as bad as the Sweedish Fish Conundrum, but its close.  Some of my favorites include the infamous 2006 Joel Zumaya Guitar Hero incident, Marty Cordova falling asleep in a tanning booth in 2002, and Bret Barbarie rubbing his eye with chili juice on his finger.  But by far my favorite reason for missing a game comes from Rey Quinones who played 4 mostly terrible MLB season, including 2 as the Seattle Mariners starting shortstop (I am glad I dont remember much from the late 80s in baseball.  The stats arent pretty.)  Late in a game that Rey hadnt started (I dont remember the year and dont feel like looking it up), the Mariners manager looked down the bench to get Quinones in a a pinch hitter.  The manager should have been fired immediately for thinking that this was a good idea.  Anyways, the manager couldnt find him and sent someone into the club house to look for him.  Rey was found, sitting at a TV playing Nintendo, but by the time he got out to the field, the manager had needed to send someone else to the plate.  I wish baseball boxscores had the little DNP thing like basketball ones do, just so Rey Quinones could have had a DNP - Nintendo.  Quinones also once told his manager that he was so good at baseball that he didnt need to play everyday so that they other players had a chance to get better and catch up to him.  Wow.


With so few players getting injured lately, I have had some time to pull some data and do some playing with it.  This week, I wanted to look at the high and low scores across each of the 12 scoring categories as well as the average, median and highest losing score.  For your consumption (the number-name signifies the week and team which had the score):

	R		RBI		SB
Median	24		24		3
Average	23.93		22.67		3.67
Highest	39	5-Dusty	36	10-Zattack   3-Dusty	10	3 times - all by Bob's Aters
Lowest	10	7-Huckle	10	3 times	0	4 times
Most in Loss	29	8-Zattack	30	7-MBHB	5	3 times

	AVG		OBP		SLG
Median	0.268		0.335		0.434
Average	0.2694		0.339		0.436
Highest	0.386	2-BySs	0.441	2-BySs	0.641	2-BySs
Lowest	0.166	2-MTMTAS	0.261	4-Zattack	0.252	2-MTMTAS
Most in Loss	0.308	2-LesMoles	0.380	2-LesMoles	0.528	2-LesMoles

	W		K		ERA
Median	3		52		3.57
Average	3.38		52.45		3.50
Highest	9	7-MBHB	91	4-LesMoles	6.70	10-Dusty
Lowest	0	8-UCCMA 11-Huckle	24	5-Zattack	1.13	11-Bob
Most in Loss	6	1 - MWP     1-LesMoles	80	4-MWP	1.98	3-MBHB

	WHIP		QS		SV/H
Median	1.23		4		5
Average	1.24		4.355		4.95
Highest	1.71	10-Huckle	10	9-LesMoles	12	6-BySs         10-Bob
Lowest	0.84	8-Huckle	2	17 times	0	2-LesMoles
Most in Loss	0.98	11-UCCMA	7	4-MWP      1-Bob	7	7-Bob

I am not really sure what to do with that data, but I know it is interesting to look at.  It tells me that Tom got the shaft in week 2 playing Kyler because both of their hitters went off, but Kyler's went off more.  It tells me that Quality Starts might not be the best category to have seeing as how the low score has happened 17 times!  There might not be enough separation between the teams for it to be meaningful.  It gives us all targets to shoot for.  If your team repeatedly gets over the median for a given category, you should win more than you lose over the long run.  Anyways, enjoy the weekend, try not to miss out on your job because your playing video games.