Again, let's start with the current standings.
Pretty big changes from last week, with Caleb picking up a ton of points, and Youk and Spencer dropping a bit. Here are the weekly changes in points.
Looking at the raw weekly stats, Caleb had a huge week in saves, and one of the top performances offensively. Not a ton of strikeouts for him, but the three folks below him (Andrew, Spencer, and Mark) didn't have a ton more K's either. However, it is starting to look like Youk!!! and I are starting to pull away a bit in strikeouts.
As Spencer pointed out in a post last week, one of the key things to keep an eye on for strikeouts is IP. Right now, Caleb, Andrew, and Luke are all projected to be over the IP limit. I'm right around the IP limit, and Mark and Spencer are well under the projected IP limit, due to injuries. However, unlike AB, you can catch up in IP with the use of 2 start pitchers, and fewer relievers. As Spencer and possibly Mark catch up in IP, Caleb may have to keep an eye on strikeouts, possibly switching to high K rate middle relivers, which would help his ratios as well. Although it may still be a bit early in the season to worry about that.
Another interesting thing this week was that all of a sudden everyone seemed to be stealing a lot more bases. The return of Figgins couldn't have come at a much better time for Spencer, as he had Caleb pass him in SB this week, and has Mark nipping at his heels. I'm surprised that Spencer hasn't been more competitive with steals - in the preseason he looked like he would be neck and neck with me in SB, and that was before he picked up Carlos Gomez, who could steal 50 this year. Kendrick, another potential SB contributor, continues to be on the shelf with leg injuries, but could help once he gets back on the field.
Stolen Base Chart
3 comments:
sigh... another week goes by with absolutely no movement in the standings for DTR. Home runs are a very close category that could move me up a bit in the standings if I ever go on a tear. Really need the pitching staff to start producing now. Quality starts start this week.
actually a pretty good week for me if you include this weekend (despite ANOTHER road sweep witnessed live while mz sees no hitters). Hoping I'm finally making up some ground in wins. The lack of SB's was pissing me off - you see the flatline on your chart - but once figgins is in every day, and now that a-rod is back, i should be more competitive. I may be in big trouble when it comes to HRs and RBI's however without a pronk miracle.
And on cue (once he's back in Spencer's starting lineup) Figgins goes down after re-aggravating his quad. Just not a good year for the AAA Legacy.
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