Stupidity Never Goes Out Of Style
Dave · October 15, 2007 at 11:49 am · Filed Under Mariners
Joel Pineiro re-signs with St. Louis – 2 years, $13 million.
Proving that you don’t even have to have a General Manager in place to make bad decisions.
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So I went into my 07 DB and pulled out Pineiro’s pitches and sepreated them before and after the trade.
I think we’ve pretty well established that Pineiro’s nice ERA in StL is the result of 2 things:
1. LOB% of 79.6%.
2. Cut his walk rate in half, down to 1.22% of BF.
Is anyone going to argue that point 1 is anything but a total fluke? His career norm is under 70% and it’s very close to a non-repeatable skill (you have to regress it like 90% and the other 10% basically comes from a pitcher’s K rate, which for Joel, sucks).
So really, the theory that Joel Pineiro made *any* sort of improvement in St. Louis rests on his reduced walk rate right?
*Pitches called a ball*
Joel Pineiro in Boston: 35.04%
Joel Pineiro in St.Louis: 35.87%
Guess what that likely means for his walk rate going forward?
How many decades before St. Louis is competitive again?
Who cares, this generation got their ring. There’s several other teams just in the NL Central who deserve their turns.
The way the NL Central has been playing the last several years I’m not sure any of them ‘deserve’ anything.