Grading the Royals at the Halfway Mark

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

s.t.f.u. Crow was garbage that inning and most innings he's pitched this year. Quit defending him because he went to Mizzou. He walked the first batter anyway, and got behind guys he allowed hits to.

Bottom right, below the strikezone, dumbass. That's a pretty ****ing tough pitch to hit. It has nothing to do with defending Crow. I don't give a shit about where he went to school.

[BlackHelicopters]

If loving Kuntz is wrong, I don't want to be right.

[Prison Bitch]

I agree with those grades above for the most part. I would give Shields an A or A- at worst, given he's on pace for a 5 WAR season and the team has won his last 8 starts. Who cares what his personal record is, we'd be much worse without him. LIkely 3 games.


I'd move Butler from a B- down to C-. He's been awful. He has zero power this year suddenly and he's making 8M. That's unacceptable.


I'd make Holland an A+ since he's got the fourth highest K rate in history right now. Surely that's an A+?


I'd move Guthrie and Davies (lol) down a grade too.

[gblowfish]

Hamas: I thought this chart was interesting: How each park figures into things this year:
http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/parkfactor

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Meanwhile, this is why Chen was lucky on Friday:



Dude lived in the middle of the plate and never once got truly punished for it

[Prison Bitch]

Crow came into a 0-0 game with two runners on. And promptly gave up 3 straight hits to break the game open 3-0. Quit defending him. He sucks this year. And quit lying about why you defended him.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Crow came into a 0-0 game with two runners on. And promptly gave up 3 straight hits to break the game open 3-0. Quit defending him. He sucks this year. And quit lying about why you defended him.

Listen you stupid ****ing ****, I don't give two shits about Aaron Crow, Max Scherzer, Ian Kinsler, or any other Missouri Tiger that isn't a St. Louis Cardinal.

Crow is a worthwhile point of analysis for the outcome of his AB vs. Bourn in contrast to what Chen did that same night. Nearly unhittable pitches get hit sometimes, and meatballs get missed.

I'm sorry that such an elementary concept is totally lost upon your infantile cognition.

[Prison Bitch]

Bruce Chen has the same FIP Crow does this year. Why you're trying to make a point about one game (in which Crow sucked anyway) is strange.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Bruce Chen has the same FIP Crow does this year. Why you're trying to make a point about one game (in which Crow sucked anyway) is strange.

Is it even possible to be as dumb as you appear?

I was not defending Crow. Point me to one post or word that suggests he pitched well in that performance. I was making the rather simple to understand point that the pitch Bourn doubled off of him was a pitcher's pitch. Completely irrespective of everything else, that was a hard pitch to hit, and yet Bourn still managed to hit it well.

That's a textbook example of bad luck, just like Chen's performance was a textbook example of good luck.

It's not that hard to figure out, but since you are the type that needs the "CAUTION: HOT" warnings on coffee cups, I'm not surprised that you have to invent a narrative about what I didn't say rather than analyzing what I actually said.

[Al Bundy]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Is it even possible to be as dumb as you appear?

I was not defending Crow. Point me to one post or word that suggests he pitched well in that performance. I was making the rather simple to understand point that the pitch Bourn doubled off of him was a pitcher's pitch. Completely irrespective of everything else, that was a hard pitch to hit, and yet Bourn still managed to hit it well.

That's a textbook example of bad luck, just like Chen's performance was a textbook example of good luck.

It's not that hard to figure out, but since you are the type that needs the "CAUTION: HOT" warnings on coffee cups, I'm not surprised that you have to invent a narrative about what I didn't say rather than analyzing what I actually said.

That was not "bad luck". That was Crow getting bombed like he usually does.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Al Bundy

That was not "bad luck". That was Crow getting bombed like he usually does.

The pitch Bourn hit most certainly was. I said nothing else about the rest of Crow's appearance, and I don't know how someone who is functionally literate could assume otherwise.

[Prison Bitch]

Michael Bourne's hit chart this year shows he hits .272 on low balls over the plate and .462 on low balls inside the plate. Given that your chart shows it was on the border between the two zones, it should come as no surprise he hit it.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/player/...=michael-bourn


Which makes your entire thesis completely absurd and stupid.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Michael Bourne's hit chart this year shows he hits .272 on low balls over the plate and .462 on low balls inside the plate. Given that your chart shows it was on the border between the two zones, it should come as no surprise he hit it.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/player/...=michael-bourn


Which makes your entire thesis completely absurd and stupid.

Except it wasn't a strike, dumbass.

[gblowfish]

Alright you two, mano a mano, Bill James Baseball Prospectus' at dawn.....