Nate Silver: The figure I used was extrapolated from ESPN.com. ESPN lists only two times of outcomes: groundballs and flyballs.
Hardball Times lists four types of outcomes: GB, FB, popups, and linedrives.
Neither method is inherently "right", but the Hardball Times method (and we used something similar in BP2006) will result in systamatically lower GB percentages.
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"Kudos", as TDeLong might utter.
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Hope you're in like an 8 team, non-keeper league.
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Jun 8 The Minneapolis Star-Tribune's Joe Christensen reports Minnesota Twins SP Francisco Liriano (stomach) came down with food poisoning after he went to dinner with Seattle Mariners SP Felix Hernandez and went to the emergency room early Wednesday morning. But he should be fine.
Very interesting...
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Haikunym OTM!
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Only one pitcher in baseball has given up more tacos per fly ball than FeHan? Up until yesterday the King was numero uno.
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Jim Callis: (2:12 PM ET ) I believe they have him on a 200-inning limit, counting spring training. Unless they're still in contention, I don't believe they'll allow him to exceed it. Which makes sense. Don't fire those bullets unless you have to when it comes to such a talented, young arm.
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Update: Hernandez dropped 20 pounds this offseason from last year's spring training weight of 246, the Associated Press reports.
Recommendation: Earlier reports said Hernandez was in the best shape of his career, but losing 20 pounds makes that a bit more believable. He's at 226, four pounds below the Mariners' goal, after an offseason in which he changed his diet, eating more vegetables, and a daily exercise program.
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Will Carroll: Peavy by far, on both counts.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
I think Hernandez was so hyped last season that his performance is perceived as worse than it actually was. He was basically a league-average starter with pretty good peripherals (24 Stuff score, far above average). After some early-season issues with hit rate and home-run rate, both of those figures came down to expected ranges, and with them, his ERA. I see no reason why the projections from a season ago can’t be Hernandez’s baseline for '07. He’s the only pitcher other than Johan Santana I can see deserving the AL Cy Young Award.
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