Bird Seed for 13/04/14
http://www.breakingblue.ca/2014/04/13/bird-seed-foreign-substances-early-jays-stats-frenchy-is-dumb-etc/
Scattered thoughts on early season Jays stats, foreign substances, closer carousels, Jeff Francoeur being dum
Two 7 inning gems in a row (no ER, 11:1 K:BB), and then a DL stint.
Oof!
Oblique stuff can be all over the map too. Just 15 days on the DL is possible, but IIRC we've seen Morrow miss like, 2+ months with oblique s*** in years previous.
Law is such a f***ing downer. Almost everything ends on a sour note. He doesn't even touch on Mondesi's D, and stops about a centimetre short of calling Nick Williams a non-prospect. C'mon!
Basically the antithesis of Parks, who is overly positive and practically falls in love with players.
"Manaea...take Stanek's hip issues and multiply them by 100. At least he had a tear and several guys have had solid recoveries from that. I see him as a guy that will be limited in his innings and his lack of secondary stuff will give him that "might be a bullpen guy" Stigma. If the guy that dominated the Cape returns...maybe he'll be in the equation again. I don't see it. I love future closers as prospects in fantasy though."
Some glowing reports re: Manaea coming out of BP already this season
Ump crews rotate home plate though. Even if they get the same crew for 8 games, pretty sure they'd see 4 different home plate umps 2x. So I don't think the ump bias would be large. With four umps you'd think some of the tendencies would cancel out.
Could definitely be a factor though!
It's not even that crazy, really, considering that 4 games could equal 500, 600+ pitches. So four games might sound like a small sample, but when you think about it like 500+ events, is it really that small?
He turns 34 this year and he was pretty bad in 2012 before being downright terrible in 2013. I have no optimism, and ZiPS projects 0.1 fWAR in 101 games for a reason.
I really think his type of role is something that any not-retarded team can fill with a more talented 500k player.
Izturis needs to just be cut loose! He provided extreme negative on-the-field value last year, and this year he's providing a different kind of negative value by getting in the way of more useful players (Diaz or Goins).
He's a sunk cost that should have been punted away before the season began!
I think I've said this like 20 times now! Why won't AA listen to me!?
scald·ing (skôl′dĭng)
adj.
4. Harshly critical or denunciatory; scathing: a scalding review of the play.
*slams dictionary shut*
*re-opens "weird insertions" tab in IE*