Thursday, May 17, 2012
THT: More sliders, more success for Logan
So far this season, Logan is striking out batters in 35 percent of their plate appearances against him, placing him ninth among big league relievers and well above his career norms in that category. The reasonable next question is: what’s up? How has Boone Logan become so good? The answer, it appears, has mostly to do with his low-80s slider, his breaking pitch of choice.
Maybe we can finally put to rest the silly notion that Boone Logan stinks?
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Boone Logan SO:BB since 2009:
1.11
1.90
3.54
4.00
I’ll take it. And he’s been durable, which means that he should pull an oblique or sprain an ankle any day now.
I don’t understand why anyone ever thought he stinks. I mean, I do understand, in that I understand that people catch 3 outings spread out over a month and make a judgment that they won’t change even faced with objective analysis. So in other words: forget I said anything.
[2] In the gamechatters, all Yankees stink. In reality, it’s only 70 to 80% of this team that stinks. Logan has been awesome this season.
The Yankees stink-Boone Logan is good. We can probably get a nice player or two when we ship him to a contender in a few months.
So, we’re down to rejoicing in Boone Logan?
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by him.
Speaking of baseball, according to Boston radio this morning, there are actually statistics being kept on how fast pitchers work, i.e., average time taken by each pitcher (might have just been SPs, but whatever) between each pitch. Now, by rule, I think they are all supposed to be pitching every 20 seconds or less. The AVERAGE time however is 21-point-something. Buccholz is the slowest at 25-something. But get this: of the top 7 leaders, FIVE are Red Sox.
I don’t understand why anyone ever thought he stinks.
Because sometimes he doesn’t retire every single batter he faces I guess.
[2] In the gamechatters, all Yankees stink.
Except for Mo and D-Rob. Dammit.
Tex definitely stinks. even not in game chatters.
Speaking of baseball
This made my day.
[7] Mo and DRob are currently not on the Yankees active 25 man roster.
Logan’s Run, baby.
Arod sitting tonight, Tex in cleanup spot.
[12] I’ll give the yanks a 10% chance to win this one.
Can we make him into a starter? Then we might have two good ones.
Can we make him into a starter? Then we might have two good ones.
He can throw with his right hand too?
So “Congratulations! You are the #1 seed! As a reward you get to open the best of 5 series with 2 road games!” Yes the team they are playing has to burn their #1 (maybe) to advance to that round but still. And if the #2 wild card wins, they have to travel anyway. That would mean BOTH teams would have to travel in that scenario. What travel does this save?
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