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    Re: Tracking - Alonso, Grandal, Volquez, Boxberger, Sappelt, Wood, Torreyes

    I loved watching Volquez pitch that year. As dominat as any Reds pitcher I've ever seen. Should have started the ASG.
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    Re: Tracking - Alonso, Grandal, Volquez, Boxberger, Sappelt, Wood, Torreyes

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    Apparently Oakland is expected to DFA Adam Rosales. That was still one of my favorite trades, where we sent Rosales and Willy Taveras to Oakland for Aaron Miles (who would never put on a Reds uniform).
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    Re: Tracking - Alonso, Grandal, Volquez, Boxberger, Sappelt, Wood, Torreyes

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    horse hockey. Nolan Ryan led the league in walks 8 times.

    One stat does not make one a bad pitcher... It isn't walks that are killing him. It's hits. You can be successful walking a lot of guys if you keep the hits down and the ball in the yard. I liked Volquez because I believed he could do that. I was wrong. Had he stayed a 200+ IP guy and kept his hits allowed below 170, then he's valuable regardless of the walks. But the hits creeped up and the walk rate bumped up a bit too. That negated his best weapon, the strikeout.

    But I don't believe the walk rate led to more hits. I think his stuff just became a bit more hittable.
    Using Nolan Ryan to dispute the point that guys that walk too many people aren't going to be an ace is kinda missing the big picture. Ryan, as remarkable as he was, is one of the top-5 pitching outliers/freaks (a good freak) of all-time, if not the top one.

    Certainly not worthy of the grand "horse-hockey" comeback.

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    Re: Tracking - Alonso, Grandal, Volquez, Boxberger, Sappelt, Wood, Torreyes

    Quote Originally Posted by kaldaniels View Post
    Using Nolan Ryan to dispute the point that guys that walk too many people aren't going to be an ace is kinda missing the big picture. Ryan, as remarkable as he was, is one of the top-5 pitching outliers/freaks (a good freak) of all-time, if not the top one.

    Certainly not worthy of the grand "horse-hockey" comeback.
    How about Tom Glavine? A pitcher that really wasn't as good as his hype?

    Blylevin?

    How about Jim Palmer?

    four examples of guys that walked a lot of hitters. What they have in common was a relatively low hit rate. Glavine wasn't a big K guy, but he kept the hits down. It isn't walks alone, Big K guys walk more batters in general. Volquez's problem wasn't the walks, it was the hits. If he gave up 30+ fewer hits than IP, you'd be looking at a guy with 200K seasons and a decent 1.20ish WHIP. He'd probably have an ERA in the mid 3's to boot. He does walk too many guys, I'm not denying that. It drives his pitch counts up, but his H/9 this year is 10.0. I don't care if his walks were cut in half, that's a recipe for disaster.

    The difference between Volquez and a guy like Cueto is Johnny became a pitcher and EV is still a thrower. Had he taken to coaching better, he'd likely be the better starter.

    I do think he's been pitching better lately. 4 out of his last 5 starts have been pretty good with one stinker in there. Maybe he's finally listening.
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    Re: Tracking - Alonso, Grandal, Volquez, Boxberger, Sappelt, Wood, Torreyes

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    Adam Rosales might be my least favorite player in Reds history.
    Why? Everything about him is so likable (maybe other than his performance)

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    Why? Everything about him is so likable (maybe other than his performance)
    Nothing about him was likeable. He was that goofy kid in gym class who tried too hard, except instead of being good he was terrible.

    Plus everyone loved him for running around the bases really fast despite the fact he was awful.
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    Quote Originally Posted by reds44 View Post
    Nothing about him was likeable. He was that goofy kid in gym class who tried too hard, except instead of being good he was terrible.

    Plus everyone loved him for running around the bases really fast despite the fact he was awful.
    Hunter Pence, but awful?

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    Yeah and I hate Hunter Pence too.
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    Re: Tracking - Alonso, Grandal, Volquez, Boxberger, Sappelt, Wood, Torreyes

    Quote Originally Posted by TRF View Post
    How about Tom Glavine? A pitcher that really wasn't as good as his hype?

    Blylevin?

    How about Jim Palmer?

    four examples of guys that walked a lot of hitters. What they have in common was a relatively low hit rate. Glavine wasn't a big K guy, but he kept the hits down. It isn't walks alone, Big K guys walk more batters in general. Volquez's problem wasn't the walks, it was the hits. If he gave up 30+ fewer hits than IP, you'd be looking at a guy with 200K seasons and a decent 1.20ish WHIP. He'd probably have an ERA in the mid 3's to boot. He does walk too many guys, I'm not denying that. It drives his pitch counts up, but his H/9 this year is 10.0. I don't care if his walks were cut in half, that's a recipe for disaster.

    The difference between Volquez and a guy like Cueto is Johnny became a pitcher and EV is still a thrower. Had he taken to coaching better, he'd likely be the better starter.

    I do think he's been pitching better lately. 4 out of his last 5 starts have been pretty good with one stinker in there. Maybe he's finally listening.
    None of Palmer, Blyleven or Glavine walked guys like Volquez did. In fact, Blyleven had a career rate of 2.39 per 9 innings, an excellent rate.

    They also had very low BABIP's, so they undoubtedly benefited from great fielding behind them.

    If a pitcher has few K's and a low hit rate, he's either got great fielding behind him or has discovered the secret of controlling BAPIP.

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    Re: Tracking - Alonso, Grandal, Volquez, Boxberger, Sappelt, Wood, Torreyes

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    horse hockey. Nolan Ryan led the league in walks 8 times.

    One stat does not make one a bad pitcher... It isn't walks that are killing him. It's hits. You can be successful walking a lot of guys if you keep the hits down and the ball in the yard. I liked Volquez because I believed he could do that. I was wrong. Had he stayed a 200+ IP guy and kept his hits allowed below 170, then he's valuable regardless of the walks. But the hits creeped up and the walk rate bumped up a bit too. That negated his best weapon, the strikeout.

    But I don't believe the walk rate led to more hits. I think his stuff just became a bit more hittable.
    This is going to sound crazy, and I honestly can't believe I am going to type it, but was Nolan Ryan truly an ACE? If we take away the sheer amount of innings he threw in a bunch of seasons, I just don't know if he was. He had four seasons in 27 years with an ERA+ over 128. Compare that with current "ACE" type of guys:

    Sabathia has 6 such seasons.
    Halladay has 9 such seasons.
    Hamels has 5 such seasons.
    Pettite has 6 such seasons.
    Hudson has 8 such seasons.
    Santanta has 9 such seasons.
    Oswalt has 7 such seasons.
    Lee has 6 such seasons.
    Kershaw has 5 such season (in 6 seasons).
    Heck, Mark Buehrle has 3 such seasons.

    Nolan Ryan may have been an ace because he was a pure workhorse and it is incredibly tough to replace those innings, but very seldom in his career was he an ACE in terms of run prevention compared to the league.

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    Re: Tracking - Alonso, Grandal, Volquez, Boxberger, Sappelt, Wood, Torreyes

    Quote Originally Posted by dougdirt View Post
    This is going to sound crazy, and I honestly can't believe I am going to type it, but was Nolan Ryan truly an ACE? If we take away the sheer amount of innings he threw in a bunch of seasons, I just don't know if he was. He had four seasons in 27 years with an ERA+ over 128. Compare that with current "ACE" type of guys:

    Sabathia has 6 such seasons.
    Halladay has 9 such seasons.
    Hamels has 5 such seasons.
    Pettite has 6 such seasons.
    Hudson has 8 such seasons.
    Santanta has 9 such seasons.
    Oswalt has 7 such seasons.
    Lee has 6 such seasons.
    Kershaw has 5 such season (in 6 seasons).
    Heck, Mark Buehrle has 3 such seasons.

    Nolan Ryan may have been an ace because he was a pure workhorse and it is incredibly tough to replace those innings, but very seldom in his career was he an ACE in terms of run prevention compared to the league.
    I think the no-hitters support the ACE argument; on any given night, you had the excitement associated with Ryan absolutely dominating. When he was on, he was a wrecking machine. But he was "off" quite a bit due to his control issues, lowering his seasonal averages.

    When classifying players, people tend to err on the side of peak performance. What was a guy capable of, not what did he accomplish on net.

    Ryan strikes me as like Jay Bruce from a volatility standpoint. When he's hot, he dominates. But he's not consistently at that level of performance. Particularly in terms of looking backward, we increasingly filter out the usual and mundane and focus on the interesting extremes. So our remaining impression is that of a dominant "ACE" rather than a wild-thing who wasn't the most reliable guy.
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    Re: Tracking - Alonso, Grandal, Volquez, Boxberger, Sappelt, Wood, Torreyes

    Quote Originally Posted by dougdirt View Post
    This is going to sound crazy, and I honestly can't believe I am going to type it, but was Nolan Ryan truly an ACE? If we take away the sheer amount of innings he threw in a bunch of seasons, I just don't know if he was. He had four seasons in 27 years with an ERA+ over 128. Compare that with current "ACE" type of guys:

    Sabathia has 6 such seasons.
    Halladay has 9 such seasons.
    Hamels has 5 such seasons.
    Pettite has 6 such seasons.
    Hudson has 8 such seasons.
    Santanta has 9 such seasons.
    Oswalt has 7 such seasons.
    Lee has 6 such seasons.
    Kershaw has 5 such season (in 6 seasons).
    Heck, Mark Buehrle has 3 such seasons.

    Nolan Ryan may have been an ace because he was a pure workhorse and it is incredibly tough to replace those innings, but very seldom in his career was he an ACE in terms of run prevention compared to the league.

    I think there were some seasons when he was an ace, the 2 years he led the AL in ERA+, for instance, but mostly his legacy is throwing very hard for a very long time, both striking out and walking a lot of guys.

    His career has always reminded me of Pete Rose's in a way- a few seasons of excellence where they were at the very top of the game, and very long careers that added up to big counting numbers in the end.

    And as RMR said, those 7 no hitters are hard to ignore.
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    Ryan has 5 of the top 20 game scores all time

    So yes he could be on.

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    Re: Tracking - Alonso, Grandal, Volquez, Boxberger, Sappelt, Wood, Torreyes

    Ace or not (which is an interesting topic), fact is EV should not be mentioned in the same breath as Nolan Ryan, which is where this all started.

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    Re: Tracking - Alonso, Grandal, Volquez, Boxberger, Sappelt, Wood, Torreyes

    Quote Originally Posted by kaldaniels View Post
    Ace or not (which is an interesting topic), fact is EV should not be mentioned in the same breath as Nolan Ryan, which is where this all started.
    While Doug is right about the walks always being present, I stand by my original statement that it seemed as though EV was on his way to becoming an ace given his performance in 08.
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