Desmond Hume Need Not Apply
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1| SportsHubLA found this 5/18/2008 on www.truebluela.com [flag] |
There are some weekends where you’re glad you’re too busy to watch any baseball. This was one of them. When losing streaks happen, people tend to look for a scapegoat about what’s wrong with the team, and this is no different. Our new target: starting pitching. Outside of Hiroki Kuroda’s 3.59 ERA, no Dodger starter has an ERA under 4.40 and arguably our two best ...
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The Prodigal Son Returns: Chan Ho Park Revives His Career
Published 5/18/2008 by Phil Gurnee at SportsHubLA
... . By that standard, it’s fair to say that Park (and Colletti, for that matter) is proving everyone wrong. But there are reasons to be worried. The case against Park starts with Fran Graphs FIP, a measure of all those things for which the pitcher is responsible, independent of how the guys around him field. By that standard, Park is one of the worst pitchers on the team, and that his success is more a function of luck rather than superior performance, of excellent results with subpar skills. Eventually, as water seeks its own level, there should be a degradation in his ...
