{"id":120,"date":"2010-08-18T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2012-09-26T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:18:09","slug":"olsens-250k-start-ends-oddly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Olsen’s $250K start ends oddly…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Olsen<\/strong>‘s 12th start of the season eventually ended in a 10-2 nats loss<\/a> last night, though that scoreline wasn’t totally his fault.\u00a0 Strange start for Olsen, who absolutely cruised through the first 5 innings (one hit and one HBP through five, lots of groundball outs, very few hard-hit balls).\u00a0 He was sitting at around 60 pitches and looked like he might put up a solid 8 inning start.\u00a0 Suddenly the top of the 6ths starts pinch-hit homer, then a triple, then a walk of Heyward <\/strong>(hardly someone you can blame pitching carefully to with a guy on third and none down).\u00a0 And he gets the hook!?<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0 Why give him the hook after two guys hit good balls in a row.\u00a0 So that a guy we signed on a minor league contract earlier this year (Peralta)<\/strong> can come in, let both inherited runners score on back to back doubles, and ruin the game for Olsen?\u00a0 That was unproductive.\u00a0 Sometimes I think Riggleman <\/strong>over-manages and over thinks his situations.<\/p>\n

Olsen now sits at 3-5 an ugly 5.14 era and 1.44 whip.\u00a0 But his advanced stats look better.\u00a0 FIP=3.51 and xFIP=4.07, which is actually 2nd best of any starter we’ve used more than once the rotation (behind Strasburg).\u00a0 His BABIP is .320, meaning he’s slightly unlucky on balls in play.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s had three horribly games on the year that have destroyed his era\/whip numbers.\u00a0 But he also had a string of 4 games and 25+ innings with 2 earned runs allowed.<\/p>\n

I think Olsen’s spot in the rotation is safe for now, but either he or Lannan <\/strong>probably gets the hook when we bring up Maya <\/strong>for a few spot starts.\u00a0 But at least he’s earning a contract tender in arbitration proceedings in the off season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Olsen‘s 12th start of the season eventually ended in a 10-2 nats loss last night, though that scoreline wasn’t totally his fault.\u00a0 Strange start for Olsen, who absolutely cruised through the first 5 innings (one hit and one HBP through five, lots of groundball outs, very few hard-hit balls).\u00a0 He was sitting at around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[803,526,857,39,819,883],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-jason-heyward","tag-jim-riggleman","tag-joel-peralta","tag-john-lannan","tag-scott-olsen","tag-yunesky-maya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}