Comments on: The Unsung Blue Jay

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:45:33 +0000

Jesse Litsch has now also joined that group.

17.7% FB 22.2% SL 37.4% CT 13.4% CB 9.2% CH

Perhaps someone in Toronto is coaching players to do this. Whatever it is, it’s working.

By: Eric Seidman

Eric Seidman — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:00:32 +0000

Evan, I checked the Fangraphs data and found the following guys with ~10% in five different pitches:

Andy Sonnanstine: 36% FB, 19% SL, 27% CT, 10% CB, 7% CH
Adam Eaton: 55% FB, 13% SL, 11% CT, 13% CB, 9% CH

Bronson Arroyo and Kenny Rogers are close, too.

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:24:41 +0000

Marcum also throws a more diverse selection of pitches than other pitchers (possibly than any other pitchers – I haven’t checked that closely). He throws 5 different pitches at least 10% of the time. I can’t find another pitcher who does this.

By: Eric Seidman

Eric Seidman — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:57:36 +0000

Howard took him deep in the first inning though this game is delayed.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:51:52 +0000

History repeats itself constantly… Marcum is looking more and more like Dave Stieb with every start. The Jays look too much like the ’82 and ’83 Jays. Hopefully we’re at the start of the Second Golden Age and pitchers like Marcum, McGowan, and Litsch turn out like Stieb, Guzman, and Clancy.

At least the offense is looking less and less inept at the plate with every passing game.

By: Eric Seidman

Eric Seidman — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:33:58 +0000

And the Fangraphs jinx continues as I say the Blue Jays look lost at the plate and Rod Barajas hits a grand slam.

By: David Appelman

David Appelman — Sun, 18 May 2008 05:35:22 +0000

Come to think of it, maybe the sidebar (or just one of the graphs) would make a really nice widget for other blogs.

By: David Appelman

David Appelman — Sun, 18 May 2008 05:34:03 +0000

What I might end up doing is going back to a format similar to before, but just have the one graph on the main page be a graph from a game in progress, but just a static view.

One of my main goals is to make sure people know we have live win probability data, but having them all of them in the sidebar might be a bit overkill.

By: dan

dan — Sun, 18 May 2008 05:18:38 +0000

Yea the “empty” thing you have right…. It seems like something else should be there besides just recent posts–player of the day is a good idea if you wanted to get away from the “top 5″ lists you used to show.

And what I meant by the graphs being cut off is that the size of your page as it appears is about a half-inch too wide for my screen, so until I scrolled my page to the right, I could only see innings 1-7. But that appears to be fixed now, as I can see the entire box for every game listed.

By: David Appelman

David Appelman — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:28:26 +0000

Dan: I appreciate the feedback. I’m not sure why the graphs would be cut off for the 8th and 9th innings until you scroll over them? I’m not seeing that on my end.

I’d like to put something next to the “recent” stories, like player of the day or something like that. Is that what you mean by it looks “empty” in that there’s some blank space between the recent stories & the game graphs?

You might try hitting F5 a few times to see if anything changes? Sometimes the css file doesn’t update.