The FIP & the Pendulum: Jaime Garcia

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Should be ,.033, I believe.

Depends on the type of pitcher someone is. A flamethrower might be more or less affected by extra innings than someone who relies on “Uncle Snappy”, his 12 / 6 curveball or some other combination of pitches.

What particularly worries me is that Verducci (I think) puts some emphasis on whether innings were pressure-filled or fairly low-key. One would think that playoff innings, especially World Series games, would be nerve wracking. I guess time and games will tell. There’s not much more the Cards can do except send Jaime out there and see how he holds up. Just another possible argument for an extra quality starter tucked away somewhere…

I also threw no innings last year. If the Cardinals pay me league minimum, I’ll throw 25 innings and report back as well.

Pitch counts are kept now (Thanks TLR!) why don’t we use pitches thrown. If a guy throws 100 pitches 5 games straight but only gets through 5 each game, and another guy throws 95 pitches each game for 5 straight but throws 7 innings each, would the guy throwing 35 innings really be straining his arm more than the one throwing 25? I get that there are warm ups but wouldnt that be counteracted from the stress of guys in and the more arm centric motion of pitching from the stretch?

but I think the emphasis on innings pitched is wrong. Does that make sense?

There’s no account for side sessions and simulated games thrown, nothing to account for long toss or off day throwing, leg conditioning, etc.

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but as a coach I would direct the player to play the same as they normally would regardless. To me, this is more of a mental thing that needs to be overcome. Whether or not you can take the notion of this player being less aggressive under these circumstances remains a question. You are right, there are a lot of assumptions. At what level of “agressiveness” should this player play under under this circumstance? Is this player playing under these circumstances “better” than the player who would be replacing them?

My main point is that the goal is to maximize the amount of time this player should be on the floor regardless of when it happens. Much like wasting timeouts in a football game. It drove some people nuts that Martz would use them any time but at the end of a half. Martz was using them when he thought he had to because he had no idea what situation he would be in at the end of the half and I always thought that logic made sense. I guess in baseball it is the idea of using your best reliever when needed instead of waiting until he is needed at the end of the game. These all are pretty much the same general principle to me.

I believe refuted that perception that the player in foul trouble would play less aggressively

We’re talking about someone who published an entire book of nude pictures of herself entitled “Sex” and has been in more than one NC-17 rated movie.

Not to mention: Does she really appeal to the audience that watches the Super Bowl? Or does she appeal more to the 40 year old mom’s in the spare bedroom watching Hallmark and Lifetime?

“Oh, she likes to rap about dealing drugs and publicly supports the Tamil Tigers, an infamous Sri Lankan rebel force who originated the use of certain terror tactics like suicide vests.”

“Is she going to show anybody her boobies?”

" . . . No, probably not."

she flipped the bird in the middle of the performance because she didn’t get enough attention growing up.

but just let Prince play it every year, dammit

I (drunkenly) cheered “Metaaaaa!”. To my horror, a conversation about the NBA ensued…

Cracked me up.