So, after skipping 5 weeks (and with a burning desire NOT to do any real work today), I’ve updated my little spreadsheet of starting pitcher performance.<\/p>\n
Interesting results to be had, no doubt:<\/p>\n
Nats performance going against Staff Positionals:<\/p>\n
#1s (ie, the other team’s aces): 10-8.\u00a0 that’s right; we’ve got a winning record against the staff aces on the season.\u00a0 Amazingly Livan has pitched in 7 of these 18 contests
\nand will get his 8th ace tomorrow night going against Josh Johnson in Florida.\u00a0 Strasburg has yet to face an “Ace.”<\/p>\n
#2s: 6-12.\u00a0 JD Martin seems to be taking the brunt of these losses, as\u00a0 he’s taken over the Jason Marquis rotation spot apparently.\u00a0 Martin isn’t pitching badly (3rd best ERA+ on the staff) but the Nats are 1-6 in his starts right now.<\/p>\n
#3s: 5-11.\u00a0 Strasburg seems to be in the #3 rotational spot right now though he goes tonight against Florda’s #2 starter in Nolasco in what should be a pretty good matchup.<\/p>\n
#4s: 5-6.\u00a0 Mostly Olsen starts.<\/p>\n
#5s: 7-8.\u00a0 Ironically Lannan usually faced up against #5 starters.\u00a0 it is a testament to his bad season that he couldn’t get more wins against the #5 starters.<\/p>\n
#5+’s: 6-5.\u00a0 5+ means they were not in the original starting 5 rotation at the beginning of the season.\u00a0 Sometimes this is a good thing (going against the 7th best starter in baltimore for example) and other times it means the right guy is finally pitching (like Dickey over Oliver Perez in NY).<\/p>\n
Taking the “rotation order” out of the equation and just looking at the actual performance of the staff member at the time of the series shows a slightly different take:<\/p>\n
#1s: 8-12
\n#2s: 10-9
\n#3s: 7-7
\n#4s: 5-10
\n#5s: 5-8
\n#5+: 3-4<\/p>\n
We’re actually playing WORSE against the lesser pitchers!\u00a0 how is that possible.\u00a0 Ugh.<\/p>\n
Of course, if we trade Dunn and Willing ham we’ll probably head into a tailspin and be closer to 60 wins than 70.\u00a0 Currently the team is on pace for exactly 71-91.<\/p>\n
boss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So, after skipping 5 weeks (and with a burning desire NOT to do any real work today), I’ve updated my little spreadsheet of starting pitcher performance. Interesting results to be had, no doubt: Nats performance going against Staff Positionals: #1s (ie, the other team’s aces): 10-8.\u00a0 that’s right; we’ve got a winning record against the […]<\/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":[139,42,99,39,776,580,41,78,781,819,38],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-adam-dunn","tag-jason-marquis","tag-jd-martin","tag-john-lannan","tag-josh-johnson","tag-josh-willingham","tag-livan-hernandez","tag-oliver-perez","tag-ra-dickey","tag-scott-olsen","tag-stephen-strasburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/4696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}