buo scouting report Stories - South Side Sox
Brushing Up On Kyle Davies
Or: CONTROL! CONTROL! YOU MUST LEARN CONTROL! HUPGOOD Fangraphs PECOTA Davies, fortunately, is not nearly as good as Meche or Greinke. Exhibit A, PECOTA's projected triple slash splits: LHB: .275/.373/.453 RHB: .280/.358/.437 PECOTA thinks he'll turn the average lefty into a younger...
Brushing Up On Scott Feldman
HUPGOOD PECOTA card Fangraphs card If you're like me, you didn't know this guy existed prior to about 3pm. That makes it difficult to know exactly what to make of the differences between this and this. It would appear that we're only going to have actual data about half the pitches he...
Brushing Up On Gavin Floyd
Gavin is quite clearly a source of uncertainty amongst SSS faithful. We didn't decide definitively what we think of him and it's for good reason. The same potential that got him drafted in the first round and made him an attractive target for Kenny in the Freddy trade remains evident. He flashes...
A Rapid Investigation Of Matt Harrison
He has a pedigree, as he was KG's number 2 prospect in the Braves system in 2007, achieving what he then called "very good prospect" status. Jumping forward to 2008, he fell to a "3 star" (thanks for the consistent nomenclature, dude). The main issue being the difference between his stuff and...
Brushing Up On Kevin Millwood
HUPGOOD Fangraphs card PECOTA card Millwood is a little bit boring. He doesn't have strikeout stuff and there really isn't anything he does that makes this intrepid blogger shout. It's more of a brow-furrowing consternation at his success. Why? I just find it difficult to believe that...
Brushing Up On Zach Greinke
HUPGOOD PECOTA card Fangraphs card Ah, finally, a plus fastball. It's probably the pitcher in me, but the guys who can really bring it are the ones I like watching best. Greinke is one of those, with a fastball that he comfortably throws early in the count around 93-94. Against RHB, he...
Brushing Up On Brian Bannister
HUPGOOD Fangraphs card PECOTA card When you look at his fangraphs card (and I suggest everyone do so), you see nothing really there to like other than the low walk rate and the decent HR/9. But he gets a below average number of ground balls, strikes out very few batters (though he's not...
Brushing Up On Joe Blanton
HUPGOOD PECOTA card Fangraphs card THT card Blanton is an interesting pitcher. As his charts show, he, seemingly, has no above average pitch. He's got the lowest K rates across the board that I've seen so far and he survives in large part on smarts. For example, check out his 1-0 counts,...
Brushing Up On CC Sabathia
Hooray! We get to face him one last time before Mark Shapiro bends to the avalanche of calls and swaps him out of the AL Central for good! Back to being late! HUPGOOD THT PF/x Primer BP PECOTA Card Fangraphs Card THT Card CC is a long and well known enemy. For Ozzie, he's one of those...
Brushing Up On Cliff Lee
HUPGOOD skipping everything else to make a train to get down to the game LATER DUDES Cliff Lee has been a badass this year. And he's more than respectable. But he's not going to dominate hitters. He's picked up the ability to get groundballs, which likely indicates a newfound cutter that...
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