Comments on Basement Dwellers: April 2007 Reds Review: Pitching & Defense

Right, forgot about the 50 games Richie played at ...

2007-05-09T14:31:00.000-04:00

Right, forgot about the 50 games Richie played at third. Now it makes more sense.

You're certainly right about SS, and I fully expected to see the defecit there. Sea Bass's 2006 chart is encouraging, and from what I've seen so far it looks on the money. Though I'm not sure if there's any place to see zone-type stats for '07.

By the way, Encarnacion's PMR chart looks like you expected it to--not so good on balls hit right at him, but just fine on balls hit to either side of him.

Aurilia was across-the-boards bad, except down the line, where he seemed fine. -j

I hadn't seen that yet, and it is pretty interesti...

2007-05-09T13:39:00.000-04:00

I hadn't seen that yet, and it is pretty interesting. A few comments:

* Rich Aurilia also played a lot of 3B, and according to both ZR and PMR (see my '06 fielding review) he was absolutely HORRIBLE, even compared to EdE. So his performance--particularly at the extremes of the third basemen's area of responsibility on that graph--might well be having a big effect on that figure. ... 'Course, Eddie wasn't exactly good there either.

* The Reds' problems at SS were far worse than anything happening at 3B.

* The Reds look darn good at 1B. Hatteberg, by all accounts, has excellent range at that position.

* Phillips' performance at 2B isn't looking real hot...the metrics I've seen rate him as average at 2B, so I'm surprised to see those numbers so low. It's not matching up real well to David Pinto's PMR charts...
-j

Agreed - Coffey has to get better, right? In the ...

2007-05-09T12:21:00.000-04:00

Agreed - Coffey has to get better, right? In the game you mentioned he looked good against Lee but made one mistake pitch to Scott, and paid for it.

BTW, you probably saw this but THT has a review of IF defense on grounders only. The graph of the Reds is depressing and interesting, especially EdE's zones. I expected him to be worse on balls hit directly to him but better on balls to his sides, not the opposite.

I just finished listening to yesterday's (May 7) game, and heard Coffey once again give it up in long ball fashion. What a weird season thus far for him. 9.5 k/g, 2.1 bb/g, and 64% GB% are all outstanding rates. But he's given up 2.1 hr/g, and 32% of all his fly balls this season have been home runs. That's absurd. So is his 0.381 BABIP.

It almost has to be a small sample size issue at this point, and there's nothing for it but to keep sending him back out there. But that's not making this tight feeling in my gut any better. Ugh. -J

Comments on Basement Dwellers: April 2007 Reds Review: Pitching & Defense

Right, forgot about the 50 games Richie played at ...

By the way, Encarnacion's PMR chart looks like you expected it to--not so good on balls hit right at him, but just fine on balls hit to either side of him.Aurilia was across-the-boards bad, except down the line, where he seemed fine. -j

I hadn't seen that yet, and it is pretty interesti...

Agreed - Coffey has to get better, right? In the ...

By the way, Encarnacion's PMR chart looks like you expected it to--not so good on balls hit right at him, but just fine on balls hit to either side of him.

Aurilia was across-the-boards bad, except down the line, where he seemed fine. -j