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Whit is on fire.

Nice change in gameplan, don't go up/away to lefties, worked wonders.

I haven't pitched competitively, no; it is still an enigma why Berrios gets into micro-grooves and then comes out of it, sporadically, missing arm-side. Maybe the Pete talk corrected it, we'll see this inning.

Nah he started jogging out of the box, again lol. Dude makes it harder on himself.

Bo decided to start pulling.

Nice. 2 runs is nothing. Lets go.

Okay, if we get out 2 - 0. Not bad.

How does he forget what he did the previous game or two games or three games?

Okay then, guess they are going to hit every thing.

Welp. Come on Berry! Keep it here!

Meatball.

Vladdy's hit xBA of .730 (103 mph) Bo's hit: 102.8 mph. Smacking him so far.

Vlad has some hard ass CF fly outs this year lol.

Guess he just has our number then. f***in hell, another Mountcastle.

No he hit it off Manoah's fastball.

Okay here's the breakdown. I accounted for any catching changes during the game, so the values might be different Overall Kirk: 4.41 ERA | Danny: 4.2 ERA * The one houston inning that I gave to Kirk initially, attributed to Danny now; Cimber pitching a 54 ERA doing wonders to even this up Kirk: 5.017 FIP | Danny: 3.98 FIP Kirk: 46% HH Rate | Danny: 34% HH Rate Kirk: 15% Sw Strike | Danny: 15% Sw Strike Romano Kirk: 4.5 ERA | Danny: 0 ERA Kirk: 2.505 FIP | Danny: 1.58 FIP Kirk: 31% HH Rate | Danny: 10% HH Rate Kirk: 17% Sw Strike | Danny: 19% Sw Strike Mayza Kirk: 1.29 ERA | Danny: 0 ERA Kirk: 1.67 FIP | Danny: 1.88 FIP Kirk: 25% HH Rate | Danny: 19% HH Rate Kirk: 12% Sw Strike | Danny: 8% Sw Strike Swanson Kirk: 1.5 ERA | Danny: 1.15 ERA Kirk: 3.38 FIP | Danny: 2.755 FIP Kirk: 72% HH Rate | Danny: 25% HH Rate Kirk: 24% Sw Strike | Danny: 20% Sw Strike Richards Kirk: 1.1254 ERA | Danny: 0 ERA Kirk: 1.67 FIP | Danny: 1.88 FIP Kirk: 25% HH Rate | Danny: 19% HH Rate Kirk: 12% Sw Strike | Danny: 8% Sw Strike Garcia Kirk: 7.59 ERA | Danny: 3.6 ERA Kirk: 3.41 FIP | Danny: 5.78 FIP Kirk: 54% HH Rate | Danny: 47% HH Rate Kirk: 17% Sw Strike | Danny: 15% Sw Strike Pop Kirk: 2.25 ERA | Danny: 9 ERA Kirk: 7.18 FIP | Danny: 2.55 FIP Kirk: 45% HH Rate | Danny: 28% HH Rate Kirk: 14% Sw Strike | Danny: 10% Sw Strike Bass Kirk: 12.75 ERA | Danny: 2.25 ERA Kirk: 10.30 FIP | Danny: 2.13 FIP Kirk: 51% HH Rate | Danny: 54% HH Rate Kirk: 8% Sw Strike | Danny: 15% Sw Strike Cimber Kirk: 2.25 ERA | Danny: 10.29 ERA Kirk: 10.88 FIP | Danny: 9.24 FIP Kirk: 58% HH Rate | Danny: 52% HH Rate Kirk: 3% Sw Strike | Danny: 8% Sw Strike TL;DR: Danny consistently seems to get better FIP and lower HH%. The Sw Strike (Whiffs) and ERA are largely even (Pop and Cimber worse with Danny; Garcia and Bass worse with Kirk). Cimber just sucked the entire month, irrespective of catcher, and if he remove his one 54 ERA inning, Danny's metrics are significantly higher. Maybe its all variance and maybe it equalizes from all the stolen strikes due to Kirk's framing. But the HH% rate typically in favor of Danny might imply he can read batters better than Kirk.

Manually crunched it, I can compare those later when I get home. Shouldn't be that difficult for 28 games.

I did something like this last year's June as well, when we had the stretch of west coast nightmare. It wasn't as drastic but the cumulative ERA/FIP was in favor of Jano versus Kirk/Moreno. Kirk is still young, so I am not putting this on him, someone from the god damn bench should be like "NO SLIDER TO RALEIGH unless it is a noncompetitive pitch, off the f***ing plate and away!"

fangraphs

Jays have the hardest schedule across the league in May. Fun times ahead!

Went and looked at data. Over this month, Kirk called 14 games, Jansen called 14 games (not accounting for any late inning substitutions). When Kirk called, overall ERA and FIP were 4.81 | 4.58 respectively. When Jansen called, overall ERA and FIP were 3.17 | 3.60. This has a lot to do with Manoah/Bassitt calling their own games more than anything imo (or at least confounding enough for this to not have any merit). But for just relief pitchers, When Kirk called, ERA and FIP were 6.08 and 5.44 respectively. When Jansen called on the other hand, ERA and FIP were 2.52 and 3.39 respectively. There is a substantial difference.

Gotcha, eye test failed. Then it has to be the gameplan set, cause slider choice is baffling.

Went and rewatched. No shake of the head. Slider was called, Kirk set the target middle of the strike zone (so it'd go below strike zone). He hit two HRs in the series already on a slider that went below strike zone, why would you ever call that when he K-d multiple times to fastball This is like Chi Sox giving Biggio a slider when dude has not been able to square up a fastball all season.

Schneider said he had to learn from that experience... clearly, he did not. Same beats! The only issue was not using Mayza against Crawford or just walking Crawford, and removing Whit. Couldn't really control what Espinal, KK (failed bunt), Bass, were going to do. I still don't get why Kirk called a slider to Raleigh. That is mind boggling. These bullpen blowouts rarely (if ever) happen when Jano is behind the plate.

Meh Ump Scorecard only shows 0.89 favor to SEA. Should've been 5, including the K that should've ended the game against Crawford.