Comments on: Colorado’s Playoff Rotation

By: Poseidon's Fist

Poseidon's Fist — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:00:49 +0000

Hammel wouldn’t be as bad at Coors Field as his ERA might indicate. His BABIP at home (.376) is extremely unlucky, especially compared to his .290 road BABIP and .289 overall BABIP in 2008. Predictably, both home/road ERA’s have regressed slowly to the mean as the season went on.

It’s not like they can’t win with Hammel on the hill at Coors. They are 11-4 in his home starts this season.

By: Rockiesmagicnumber

Rockiesmagicnumber — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:01:32 +0000

He hasn’t pitched well from the pen in awhile. He has electric stuff, but he always struggles in the first inning before he can settle down.

His particular skillset would be redundant to Morales, Betancourt, Daley, and Street. We don’t need another high K9 high BB9 in the pen. Not that a high BB9 is ideal from the rotation, but he’s done much, much better in the rotation than he has in limited bullpen work (like one outing).

Ubaldo, Cook, DLR, Hammel are our best 4 pitchers. Marquis has regressed to the mean pretty badly, and while his past start only resulted in 2 runs, he was missing locations badly, got himself into too many jams and worked out of them by pretty much pure luck. I’d rather have him as mopup relief than have him in the rotation.

DLR’s ERA isn’t very indicative of being a “good” starter, but his 2.28 K/BB and 3.96 FIP and his growing maturity (in terms of reaction to bad outings/innings) has really made him a threat from the rotation. Also, his 2nd half numbers are pretty solid in general http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?n1=rosajo01&year=2009&t=p#half

By: Eric B

Eric B — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:36:15 +0000

sorry, the cards didn’t make the playoffs in 07. But he was left off playoff rosters in 06 and 08.

By: Eric B

Eric B — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:32:20 +0000

first, he was left off the playoff roster three of the last four years (cubs in 08, card in 07 and 06), and pitched all of one inning last year. Second, he was bad when he did pitch. In 22 playoff innings he’s walked 18 and struck out 14.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marquja01.shtml

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:55:49 +0000

Nothing.

That year Marquis was the worst starter in baseball and his team made the WS in spite of him. That was truly one of the most teeth-nashing seasons to watch in recent memory for we Cardinals fans.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:54:44 +0000

A righty heavy team that can’t hit lefties. George of the Rose should start against them. LHP’s cripple Rasmus/Ankiel, send Schumaker to the bench in lieu of Lugo, and Ludwick is a reverse split hitter.

By: MU789

MU789 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:39:35 +0000

Marquis does have playoff experience but the only time his team won the WS, he was left off the post-season roster. I’m not sure what that says about Marquis though.

By: Kevin G

Kevin G — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:20:50 +0000

If you are deciding between Marquis and Hammell, I think who starts depends on the ballpark. Hammell’s home ERA is 5.73 and his road ERA is 3.19. Marquis is basically even home and away (approx 3.95). Marquis’ groundballs might be valuable in the pen, but there is no way I’d start Hammell in a Coors Field game.

By: bikozu

bikozu — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:44:15 +0000

De La Rosa would be pretty killer out of the bullpen, I would think. He’s had a good year starting though.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:17:13 +0000

Absolutely agree with you on the rotation order. As hard as it is to believe, Colorado is set up very well to make another run to the World Series.