Comments on: The Mop Up Awards

By: Tom T

Tom T — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:05:03 +0000

Jason Hammel for the Rays

By: James K.

James K. — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:53:44 +0000

The 3-headed monster of Muniz/Vargas/Figueroa might work.

By: James K.

James K. — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:47:57 +0000

Eric,

I’m OK with picking Muniz as the Mets’ mop-up guy, although he didn’t pitch all that much and didn’t pitch an inning after August 10th.

You absolutely CANNOT pick Stokes as the mop-up guy – most of his appearances came late in the season in big spots. I watched probably 150 of the Mets’ 162 games this year – Stokes does not fit the description of mopup guy whatsoever. He pitched in 4 of the Mets final 5 games, which were all pretty nerve racking and important.

By: Eric Seidman

Eric Seidman — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:47:17 +0000

Tango, sounds like a good idea, and I’ll generate that when I get home and post the results.

By: oldjacket

oldjacket — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:22:38 +0000

Giants had Keichi Yabu, Billy Sadler and Osiris Matos on the mop and bucket brigade at various points of the year.

The first part of the year, Yabu was cleaning up so many Barry Zito messes that Barry Zito starts were known by the fans as Yabuzito starts.

By: per se

per se — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:04:15 +0000

The Yanks also used Ohlendorf as a mop-up guy for a good chunk of the year before they traded him to Pittsburgh.

By: Gary W

Gary W — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:42:08 +0000

For the Orioles I’d have say it was Lance Cormier….but with starters we had, the whole bullpen spent time mopping up so there really wasn’t a go to guy per say.

By: SleepyCA

SleepyCA — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:21:54 +0000

The cardinals had a couple, but the one that sticks out in my mind was Kelvin Jimenez. He was characterized on VEB as "the bridge between Joel Pineiro and Aaron Miles", snicker. And he meets Tango's 40 IP critieria, just barely. Besides Jimenez, brad thompson and a host of AAA guys filled the role for STL.

By: TangoTiger

TangoTiger — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:05:23 +0000

What would happen if you generate a list of pitchers ranked by:
G*LI/IP (min 40 IP)? The lower the number, the more mopuppie he is.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:52:46 +0000

White Sox- Nick Masset

Can’t say I followed the White Sox much, but it looks like Nick Masset is the guy. He sports the lowest pLI of any White Sox reliever with at least 30 IP. Moreover, I recall that he frequently entered games in low leverage situations and pitched for several innings, which is confirmed by his game log.