Tampa Bay Rays Sign Jorge Julio, Release Chad Orvella
DRaysBay —
... Listed from 2006-2009:
K%: 30.8, 20, 25.8, 14.8
uBB%: 11.6, 10.4, 12.9, 17
If you were looking at his previous three seasons last off-season to determine whether he would be a worthwhile addition or not, you would be thinking this year was a ridiculous outlier to date. His FIP over those last three seasons were: 4.09, 4.76, 4.17, 6.40. ZiPS is projecting a 4.5 FIP from here onward, which is on par with what ZiPS expects from Joe Nelson and Jason Isringhausen.
Snide remarks made about this move are going to be full of ...
Rays' Jason Isringhausen Leaves Game With Right Arm Injury
DRaysBay —
... relief pitcher Jason Isringhausen was forced to leave tonight's game with an apparent right arm injury. Isringhausen unleashed a wild pitch and immediately waved Joe Maddon and the training staff out on the field. Izzy walked off the mound with his right arm dangling. It's way too early to speculate on an injury, but for a 36 year-old with a history of arm injuries it did not look promising. Unlike Troy Percival, who fought to stay in games in which he was injured, Isringhausen knew something was wrong right away. Lance Cormier was ...
MVZ? Ben Zobrist Homers Rays To Victory Over Nationals
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... Overall, it was a great night for the Rays sans the Jason Isringhausen injury. They got excellent starting pitching from ...
Will The Washington Nationals' 44th Loss Be Manny Acta's Last? Will The Washington Nationals Fire Manny Acta?
Federal Baseball —
... Jason Isringhausen vs Elijah Dukes. Dukes singles to center. Willie Harris explodes on a fastball but gets it only as far as short right. Corey Patterson K’s swining against two pitchers, after Isringhausen leaves game with apparent injury. Nationals lose. Rays win, 8-3 final. ...
Winston Abreu: Freed
DRaysBay —
Per Joe Smith of the Heater, Jason Isringhausen has been placed on the DL and Winston Abreu has been promoted to the majors. Hate to see it come this way, but the guy has earned his shot. To recap check out this and this.
Basically, Abreu throws hard, has seemingly decent-to-good breaking stuff in his slider, is striking out the International League like nobody's business, and has a long track record of success in Triple-A without much major league time to speak of. Absolute worst case: he turns in an awful ...
Jason Isringhausen Placed on 60 Day DL; Winston Abreu Added To 40 Man
DRaysBay —
... Not good news, but it appears that Jason Isringhausen may have indeed thrown his last major league pitch; at least for the season. While the ...
James Shields Gets Job Done in Rays Sweep; Bullpen Closes Door On Nats
DRaysBay —
... and Jason Isringhausen out indefinitely, hopefully Maddon will continue to call on the Iceman in the ninth inning. J.P. in...game chilled. ...
Jason Isringhausen To Have Tommy John Surgery; Season (career?) over
DRaysBay —
... Jason Isringhausen knew something was wrong immediately after he threw what might be his last pitch. Results of an MRI confirmed the worst today as his right elbow "strain" became a torn UCL. He will undergo Tommy John surgery. It is not known when he will have the surgery, but his 2009 season is over. If he attempts another comeback, 2010 would also be questionable. ...
Joe Maddon is Using J.P. Howell Correctly
DRaysBay —
... That's 15 appearances, two save chances, a 1.73 FIP, and the highest leverage on the team during that time. Maddon's not using Howell as a closer at all, he's using him as a relief ace, a fireman, the iceman, whatever you want to label him, Maddon is using him perfectly. Seriously. He could've easily said he was giving the set closers job to Jason Isringhausen or ...
Toxic sting of Rays' bats the first real challenge to the Rox rotation in weeks
Purple Row —
... (knee) went on the 60-day DL last month, and Jason Isringhausen just lost his season and possibly career due to Tommy John surgery. ...
Part 4 of the D-Backs Deadline Possibilities: The Chad Qualls/Jon Rauch Trade Market
AZ Snakepit —
... to handle the eighth inning duries. However, they could use a more adequate seventh-inning man, with Jason Isringhausen having been out for most of the year with a torn elbow ligament, long-relief guy ...
Where They're At: Your Second-Half-of-2009 Cardinals
Viva El Birdos —
... That's Kyle McClellan, he of the 2.93 ERA. His control was plain average last year; this year it's positively bad. If you can strike batters out like Pitcher E (that's Chris Perez, who was shipped out because of his command problems) it's okay to walk four and a half batters per nine innings. If you strike out fewer batters than Ryan Franklin, it's a bad way to keep your ERA under four. That's the Cardinals' set-up man—that's why I'm worried.
Pitcher D is Jason Isringhausen, last year. It's a rough group.
As far as ...
Why High Priced Non-Elite Relievers Aren't Worth the Money
DRaysBay —
... 's back, arm, and legs gave out along with Jason Isringhausen's arm blowing up, the Rays were left with a rag tag group of pitchers. No current member has held the Rays closer except for ...
Twelve Over
Viva El Birdos —
... was on the team. Jason Isringhausen's brilliant comeback season? Well, he was bad, and then he was really good, and then he was bad again, I don't know. Even Albert was only kind of ridiculous that year. ...
Early Impressions of Jeff Bennett
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Jeff Bennett has been a Ray for two weeks and he's faced 31 batters already. That's more than Chad Bradford has faced, almost more than Jason Isringhausen, one less than Dale Thayer, and almost as many as J.P. ...
The Early September Afternoon Chat Thread
Viva El Birdos —
... , newly minted once and future closer, do his very best latter day Jason Isringhausen impression? if this is what happens when you sign a closer to a long-term deal, then I want no part of ever locking one up again. ...
Choosing The Mets "All-Time 9"
Amazin' Avenue —
... Player Year wOBA wRAA OPS+
Jason Isringhausen
1996
.304
-1.5
87
Dwight Gooden
1992
.291
-1.5 ...
9/26 GDT: Tampa Bay Rays @ Texas Rangers
DRaysBay —
... Troy Percival
shoulder
05/22/2009
Carlos Pena
fingers
09/07/2009
Jason Isringhausen
elbow
06/14/2009
I've ...
Why The Rays Should Target Joaquin Benoit
DRaysBay —
... strikes which is a great sign for any pitcher. When Balfour was busy telling people to STFD in 2008, his swstr 11.2%. That would be low for Benoit.
Despite the nice numbers and the good stuff there is a fair amount of risk in signing Benoit , without this risk he would be at the top of every teams shopping list. The situation is far from ideal, and after the past few seasons we as Rays fans should be weary of any relief pitchers with injury histories: Troy Percival, Jason Isringhausen, Joe Nelson, just to name a few. However, ...
Tampa Bay Rays Continue To Buck Trends And Set New Ones; Market Exploitation 101
DRaysBay —
... and Jason Isringhausen that didn't work out as well, however, the process was and still is good. We should all expect the Rays to continue dabbling in the injured reliever market in hopes of finding that next diamond in the rough. ...
My Maudlin' Career
Viva El Birdos —
... and Not Just Dick-- there is, in fact, a toaster involved in this post
Life Lenses-- in which I discuss the departure of Adam Kennedy
God Bless Us, Every One -- Christmas 2008
The Team Stripped Bare By Its Suitors, Even-- an interesting hypothetical, and my favourite title
Good Bye, Halcyon Days -- mourning for last summer, and my second favourite title
Not With a Bang, but a Whimper-- Jason Isringhausen
Saturday Morning Coming Down-- a discussion of ...
