2011 Community Projections Review: Matt Harrison
by Brad on Dec 7, 2011 1:00 PM CST
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The collapse of Matt Harrison had become an annual Texas Rangers tradition. In 2008, 2009 and 2010, Harrison was given opportunities early in the year to stick in the Rangers rotation. His numbers were awful, never posting a FIP below 5.00. He had a combination of few strikeouts, lots of walks and lots of home runs. During Spring Training in 2011 we heard of a new Matt Harrison, one that decided that 25 years old was the perfect time to finally read a book. His spring performances were fairly promising and yet again, he broke camp in the rotation. The projections were still extremely skeptical with a 4.76 ERA in 107.8 innings. The sentiment was that we had seen this all before.
| IP | ERA | K | BB | HR | RMSE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LSB Average | 107.8 | 4.76 | 70.0 | 44.8 | 12.2 | 41.15% |
| ZiPS | 102.7 | 5.00 | 61.0 | 42.0 | 13.0 | 49.07% |
| Snark (Marcel) | 84.0 | 4.55 | 54.0 | 33.0 | 10.0 | 44.51% |
| 2011 Results | 185.7 | 3.39 | 126.0 | 57.0 | 13.0 | 0.00% |
And yet... 2011 really was different. In 2011 Matt Harrison finally pitched a full season of quality baseball. He posted a 3.39 ERA in 185 innings with career numbers in K/9, BB/9, HR/9 and GB%. He was one of the Rangers most consistent starters and outperformed his projections more than any other projected Rangers player (if only we had projected Ogando).
Using a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) approach [lower is better] the top and bottom individual projections have NorCalRangers at the top of the projections (but JBImankee close behind) and Akalhar at the bottom.
Everyone's rankings can be found in this Google Spreadsheet and the top and bottom 5 shake out as:
| Top 5 | IP | ERA | K | BB | HR | RMSE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. NorCalRangersFan | 175.0 | 4.51 | 100.0 | 60.0 | 13.0 | 17.59% |
| 2. JBImaknee | 140.0 | 4.23 | 75.0 | 40.0 | 10.0 | 18.52% |
| 3. Bats and Balls | 181.0 | 3.85 | 105.0 | 48.0 | 18.0 | 21.70% |
| 4. jshcmp | 122.0 | 4.67 | 84.0 | 39.0 | 8.0 | 23.07% |
| 5. rockin_rangers | 110.0 | 3.85 | 85.0 | 40.0 | 6.0 | 23.94% |
| Bottom 5 | IP | ERA | K | BB | HR | RMSE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61. ruben_sierra#21 | 54.0 | 6.22 | 25.0 | 26.0 | 8.0 | 75.75% |
| 62. NothinG | 70.0 | 6.10 | 38.0 | 40.0 | 10.0 | 76.04% |
| 63. Robert L. Bishop | 92.0 | 5.58 | 75.0 | 62.0 | 18.0 | 103.54% |
| 64. TooLegitToQuit | 70.0 | 6.85 | 50.0 | 70.0 | 13.0 | 136.08% |
| 65. Akalhar | 45.0 | 6.33 | 30.0 | 55.0 | 14.0 | 210.10% |
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Heck yeah
I hate The Angels so much, it's actually cramping my style. (See RevHaloFans SBN profile page)
by Gay For Feliz on Dec 7, 2011 1:04 PM CST via mobile reply actions
YES!
I make the bottom 5. I think JBl wins that discussion again
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Wow, I'm sorry, Matt.
I sure was wrong.
"...out of the shadows of unprecedented success, the sun shines down upon this team waiting to thrill anew." - ghostofErikThompson
heh, I don't think I've been this close on a ranking yet
I’m still only 12th :(
Josey Wales: "And if you think intangibles really do exist, how in the F could you vote Ellsbury as the MVP?"
Adam J. Morris: "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college."
Alot of Matty H haters
I hate The Angels so much, it's actually cramping my style. (See RevHaloFans SBN profile page)
by Gay For Feliz on Dec 7, 2011 1:17 PM CST via mobile reply actions
i should have won this one
Go Rice Owls!
Would be a Matt Harrison fan, but I only like superstars
by JBImaknee on Dec 7, 2011 2:05 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Too pessimisstic on the innings.
But we all know who was driving the Harry bus.
"I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else." by Earl Weaver
you yelled even louder than his wife
Some see a glass half empty, some a glass half full. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be. - George Carlin
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