Official 2014 GT!!! Pennant Bound and Down...

[Neddy]

Greinke has slowly been turning into one of my favorite Dodgders....something I didn't think I would say about a guy who wasn't farm grown.


Mr. Saberman.
Would it be fair for me to say Greinke is actually getting better....or is he the same pitcher he always was and playing in the NL West and Chavez has helped bring his ERA down?

Greinke's career FIP (fielding independent pitching) is 3.42 according to both baseball-reference and fangraphs.
Greinke's career WHIP (walks+hits per inning) is 1.229 according to B-R.
Greinke's carrer BABIP (BA when balls in play) is .305

last year, he posted 3.23 / 1.114 / .276
this year so far, he is 3.23 /1.106 /.296

his numbers to appear slightly better than his career average, but clearly a notch below his Cy Young Year in regards to FIP at 2.33. but even then he recorded WHIP 1.073 / BABIP .303 in 2009, not exactly a huge gap. his SO/9, BB/9 are not too drastically better, although this year his SO/9 is higher, his HR/9 is also up. but not by much. looking at his ball park stat splits from home to away from season to season, it show a slight improvement at home but again, not by much and not at his 2009 year in KC.

in other words, most of his stats have not shown a great deal of swing in year to year comparison other than a small oscillation back and forth, but remarkably consistent over the years, other than 1 great year in 2009 and some early couple of years when he was figuring things out before 2007.

what looks different on paper however, is his ERA and W-L. ERA is defense dependent, ball park dependent, BABIP dependent, and W-L is pretty much meaningless as a pitcher has little control over it.

when ERA numbers are subtracted by FIP, then you will get a clearer picture, of when he was more luckier than good, and some other years not lucky at all. but through it all, since about 2007, he has been pretty consistent in all fielding independent stats, but when it came to luck factor, such as actually having given up worse BABIP numbers in his C-Y year when his FIP is nearly a full run less, it just means he was so dominant that year that even bad lucks couldn't deter him that year.

to sum it all up in a short answer, he has been the same guy pretty much all along.

[Quake Griffin]

Not even going to look at the rest of this road trip as I can see these jabronis fumbling through it.

we have a 10 game home stand after.
3 against Cincy
4 against Pitt
3 against the Chi-Sox.

we need to make headway during that home stand. Typically I'm not a, we have to win X amount of games type of guy. I just think putting together series wins makes you hot.

but ofthose 10 (if we keep fumbling on the road like I think we will)....we need 8 of them.
hopefully we can stay over .500 before we get home.

[Neddy]

I hate Ned.

if we just trade a couple of our OFers not named Puig and bring up Joc, both of our offense and defense will improve. Kershaw will find his groove, Greinke is already firing in all cylinders, Ryu is about to come back, Beckett and Haren suddenly have found their mojo again, with a couple of trade addition of bullpen help, this team can start another 40 out of 50 type of winning streak to take over the NL.

[Quake Griffin]

I hate Ned.

if we just trade a couple of our OFers not named Puig and bring up Joc, both of our offense and defense will improve. Kershaw will find his groove, Greinke is already firing in all cylinders, Ryu is about to come back, Beckett and Haren suddenly have found their mojo again, with a couple of trade addition of bullpen help, this team can start another 40 out of 50 type of winning streak to take over the NL.

i swear to God....I was just telling my buddy this morning that Young Joc IS READY and can come up....we just need to trade some OFs and put him out there.

[Neddy]

perhaps you have seen it already, but i made an entire thread about Joc. if you haven't seen it, check it out.

[Quake Griffin]

what in the blue **** at Guerrero getting his ear bitten?

[Quake Griffin]

oh and looks like Seager is hitting in high A ball.

[Neddy]

happy for Erisbel Arruebarruena for making it to the bigs, but man his at bats are comical.

[Neddy]

so, how many pitches will it take to score 3 strike outs tonight for Erisbel? last night was 3 SOs in what seemed like just 9 pitches and left 4 on bases. love his glove, but he should just walk up to the batters box without a bat. he ain't making a contact with it anyway, pingpong paddle might do better.

[Quake Griffin]

I saw his last at bat....it was pretty terrible.
IDC....i want that glove in the field...we'll work on his bat becoming anything above where it is now later. Look at andrelton simmons....OBP under .300 but his glove is so good he is viewed as a plus.


anywho....im sick of this team's errors.
theyre beyond annoying.

[Quake Griffin]

BTW...our right fielder...you know....that one from Cuba.

kid's a stud.
thank everybody for hating....thank you donnie for trying to hold him back etc. etc. It's becoming clear that this kid is special.


brb let's focus on base running blunder even though the ump called the infield fly rule late as hell.
im sick of people hating on Yasiel.

[Neddy]

I saw his last at bat....it was pretty terrible.
IDC....i want that glove in the field...we'll work on his bat becoming anything above where it is now later. Look at andrelton simmons....OBP under .300 but his glove is so good he is viewed as a plus.


anywho....im sick of this team's errors.
theyre beyond annoying.

finally got a hit! and it only took his 5th at bat to do it. love the fact that he worked up the count to full and made a good contact on a decent looking swing!

still think he should bat 9th and move up the pitcher's position to 8th. and also agree that we can use some defense. our up the middle D has been terrible this year, and all we need now is bring Joc up to patrol the CF.

[Quake Griffin]

three hits and an RBI for Eirsbel.

LEGGO!!!!

[Quake Griffin]

Puig's aggressiveness just got me so freakin hype.

stretching that into what was scored a "double" when dominic brown threw the ball to the left side of the infield.
give me the aggressiveness any day of the week man.

that was beautiful.

oh and Beckett is throwing a no-no thru 6 with 90 pitches.

[Quake Griffin]

He has 110 pitches man.

idc about pitch count Donnie....LET BECKETT FINISH THIS.
we need this no hitter to give us a shot in the arm going into the 10 game home stand.

[Quake Griffin]

NO HITTER!!!!!111

PBBBBBBBFFFFTTT!!!

[Neddy]

hell ya!

and ranma made a no hitter thread!

[Neddy]

hey one more thing that should get a shout out in today's no hitter, Erisbel got 2 hits, an RBI, and smooth glove to give Josh a chance for the no hitter.

[Neddy]

**** GUYS

yesterday I read an article on south korean sports website that Ryu said he didn't know what it feels like to have a no hitter after Beckett's historic night, and he would like to experience it himself, and here he is, going perfect so far in the first 5 innings, only spending 56 pitches........

[Quake Griffin]

**** GUYS

yesterday I read an article on south korean sports website that Ryu said he didn't know what it feels like to have a no hitter after Beckett's historic night, and he would like to experience it himself, and here he is, going perfect so far in the first 5 innings, only spending 56 pitches........

this post should have come after the 6th inning.

if Ryu isn't perfect, guess who I'm blaming.