Some more fun stats

by Adam J. Morris on Apr 17, 2009 11:31 PM CDT

Josh Rupe, since the 2008 ASB:

41 IP, 32 walks, 26 Ks, 7 homers, 7.46 ERA

I'm suspecting the slagging his arm took in the first half of the season has ended up doing some damage.

Because he was terrible after the break last year, was terrible in spring training, and has been terrible so far this year.

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So what you're saying...

is he’s terrible.

Gotcha.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Apr 17, 2009 11:44 PM CDT reply actions

You forgot something

He was terriblely (don’t even try to ask me to spell that word right without spell check) mismanaged.

by Mark from OC on Apr 17, 2009 11:54 PM CDT reply actions

Rangers on pace

to surrender 1,199 runs this year…

I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain.

by red shoe ranger on Apr 17, 2009 11:58 PM CDT reply actions

and we're still only 2 games below 500

this is what i do...i guarantee.

by Longhorn on Apr 18, 2009 12:00 AM CDT up reply actions

of course

we are on pace to hit 356 homers as well….

I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain.

by red shoe ranger on Apr 18, 2009 12:07 AM CDT up reply actions

we are also

on pace to score 1,199 runs this season as amazingly the Rangers Run’s Allowed is exactly the same as their Runs Scored(74).

I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain.

by red shoe ranger on Apr 18, 2009 12:10 AM CDT up reply actions

Unfortunately...

The runs against tend be spread out a bit more than the runs for. The runs for tend to be bunch to together in a smaller number of games.

I propose a 5-year moratorium on trading any young Ranger pitchers who throw over 90 mph.

by Ajax68 on Apr 18, 2009 12:19 AM CDT up reply actions

Tends to be?

I’d like to see the math/science on that. I don’t see any reason for that to be taken at face value.

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by t ball on Apr 18, 2009 7:36 AM CDT up reply actions

It's 10 games

You can’t make any real claims about the distribution of anything with only 10 data points.

However, at glance, its pretty easy to tell that the runs scored is not quite Gaussian, while the runs allowed has a more Gaussian shape. But 10 data points….

by JBImaknee on Apr 18, 2009 11:39 AM CDT up reply actions

I assumed he meant

in general, not just for this team and these 10 games, and I was calling bullshit.

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by t ball on Apr 18, 2009 4:59 PM CDT up reply actions

I wonder if he'll be terrible in AAA next week.

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by Wes Cox on Apr 18, 2009 12:00 AM CDT reply actions

For what team?

After the Rangers lose him when they DFA Rupe.

by Mark from OC on Apr 18, 2009 12:02 AM CDT up reply actions

no

I don’t think he would get claimed. Get ready for the Derrick Turnbow audition.

Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year

by RangerMad on Apr 18, 2009 12:05 AM CDT up reply actions

i highly doubt Turnbow will be the first called up

he needs to have success in AAA first.

The "Fire Wash Watch" is on. I say he's gone by April 26th.

by NothinG on Apr 18, 2009 12:16 AM CDT up reply actions

If another team claims him...

…that team can’t send him to the minors without putting him on waivers themselves.

by Adam J. Morris on Apr 18, 2009 12:10 AM CDT up reply actions

Is Rupe out of options?

I meant that we would DFA/cut him for what RangerMad said, to get the Derrick Turnbow audition since Turnbow is not on the 40. I should know better than to be cloudy after a game like this.

by Mark from OC on Apr 18, 2009 12:15 AM CDT up reply actions

Rupe is out of options

The "Fire Wash Watch" is on. I say he's gone by April 26th.

by NothinG on Apr 18, 2009 12:17 AM CDT up reply actions

Rupe is out of options

Turnbow hasn’t even been getting it done in AAA so far..why would we bring him up to the Rangers?

by Mike E on Apr 18, 2009 12:22 AM CDT up reply actions

Why not?

Can’t be any worse than what the Rangers have seen so far. And I believe his opt out date is coming up soon, so it is either try him out or lose him.

by Mark from OC on Apr 18, 2009 9:27 AM CDT up reply actions

They ARE trying him out...

in AAA, where he’s failing….and that earns him a tryout up here??

The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano

by bking on Apr 18, 2009 9:48 AM CDT up reply actions

D.....F......A......

Support your local Scott Feldman

"Josh Hamilton doesn't act like he is Josh Hamilton. He acts like a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy named Josh Hamilton."

by Martijn1309 on Apr 18, 2009 12:28 AM CDT reply actions

At least Willie Eyre

has embraced his role as a Ranger Reliever.

"The idea that the Rangers are going to be a solid contender for a number of years is a fantasy." - Adam J. Morris

by DJCahill on Apr 18, 2009 1:08 AM CDT reply actions

To Eyre is human.

"I saw your act, just didn't make it for me. Just a lot of fluff."

by scoop16 on Apr 18, 2009 1:12 AM CDT up reply actions

...but to pinch hit Omar Vizquel is just plain stupid.

Coach Washington inspires me to be an hero.

Hello Win Column

by LSJ on Apr 18, 2009 1:17 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

Willie spEyre

If you take the worst pitching staff in baseball, then add Kris Benson and Jason Jennings, what do you have???

surprise!!! You have the worst pitching staff in baseball, that's what.

by tricer on Apr 18, 2009 8:59 AM CDT up reply actions

It’s only slagging if he actually can’t handle either the innings or the frequency. Maybe that’s true. He’s 27, 28 in August. It isn’t his first or second or third try at being a MLB pitcher. If he hasn’t (and he never has) been effective twice as much as he has been ineffective, he isn’t a major league pitcher. Granted, there hasn’t been much better to choose from, so being “good on occasion” is relative – compared to what? It’s possible he could still make the grade on stuff – but no amount of stuff will save you if the majority of the stuff is hittable. I don’t know, maybe he’s a career victim of being told to pitch to contact, OTOH there may be a reason he might have been told that. Synopsis: it doesn’t work.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce

by Ed Coffin on Apr 18, 2009 1:37 AM CDT reply actions

Isn't that the story of most bad relievers?

They have some small window of time they are effective? Isn’t it just called “small sample”?

"The idea that the Rangers are going to be a solid contender for a number of years is a fantasy." - Adam J. Morris

by DJCahill on Apr 18, 2009 1:41 AM CDT up reply actions

Yep

Way too many to count. It may be that anyone who is good enough to be issued a uniform in hopes of sticking in a pitching staff may have a few good outings, or a good run or two, then oblivion.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce

by Ed Coffin on Apr 18, 2009 1:44 AM CDT up reply actions

Yes

and I think the biggest problem of teams like Texas is clinging to guys hoping that their mediocre stuff somehow returns to the “new, poorly scouted” variety that it was when they first came up and showed initial success.

I remember the Yankees dynasty ten years ago. The names that’d appear between Andy Petitte and Mariano Rivera were always changing. For guys like Rupe, its a case of use them while they’re good, and throw ’em off the bus when they start going downhill.

by JBImaknee on Apr 18, 2009 11:42 AM CDT up reply actions

Another fun fact

Only four pitchers on our staff have an ERA under 7 at this point.

3 Exceptional performers so far (Millwood, FX2, Jennings) with an ERA under 1.
1 Solid performer in BMac (ERA right around 5)
All other pitchers have fit the Drek category so far.

"The idea that the Rangers are going to be a solid contender for a number of years is a fantasy." - Adam J. Morris

by DJCahill on Apr 18, 2009 1:40 AM CDT reply actions