Episode 46 – Is Your Refrigerator Running

The latest episode of “Field of Streams” is live!

In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Matthew Dewoskin discuss Dylan’s frustrations with technology, a tangential dialogue on baseball ethics, bad matchups for Marco Estrada, Dylan trying to do podcast research via his cell phone, Anthony DeSclafani getting a second chance to try to strike out a Philadelphia batter, Dylan continuing to defend Chris Young, Matt’s trip to Cleveland in September, and Dylan preparing to throw his modem in the river.

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It’s been a little while since I last used my xK% equation to identify pitchers with strikeout rate upside. So now that we’re about a third of the way into the season, it’s time to take another look. The five pitchers discussed below all have xK% marks well above their actual K% marks. My equation isn’t perfect, of course, just like all formulas that act as skill estimators, but it should work pretty well at the extremes at predicting the direction of future stat changes.

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Today is an exciting day: it’s the day of the MLB draft!

On today’s agenda:
1. It’s Carlos Correa time
2. Various news and notes
3. Streaming Pitcher Options

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Episode 238

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

In this episode, Paul Sporer and Jason Collette take a more free-flowing approach and bounce from topic to topic, starting with Carlos Correa’s call-up and ending with some discussion of a huge trade they pulled off in LABR.

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Pedro Strop replaced Hector Rondon on Saturday after Rondon walked the leadoff hitter in the ninth. Joe Maddon refused to anoint Strop as the Cubs new closer, but you should definitely monitor this situation and don’t be shy about picking up Strop if he’s available.

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On this day in 1971, the US Supreme Court overturned the previous conviction of Paul Cohen, effectively making the public dropping of f-bombs legal. Today’s Roto Riteup will not utilize the court’s decision, but is glad to know it exists.

On today’s agenda:
1. Señor Baseball returns
2. Fun with arbitrary endpoints
3. Various news and notes
4. Streaming Pitcher Options

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Now is likely the time to pick up Rafael Soriano. The Blue Jays have reportedly been sniffing around him, and while watching the Braves bullpen give up another fistful of runs, you’d think they’d be in the mix as well if the price is right. The Braves pen has the worst ERA in the majors and didn’t help their case on Friday, as they combined to give up six runs in four innings of work. Mark Melancon induced a game-ending double play out of A.J. Pierzynski, but he threw the comebacker into center field to put runners on the corners. He was able to get another game-ending double play, but this time made sure it was hit at an infielder, notching his 17th save.

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This morning’s Roto Riteup author would like you to know it’s officially too hot to wear pants and that fact should be legally recognized.

On today’s agenda:
1. Rehab assignments galore!
2. Various news and notes
3. Streaming Pitcher Options

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Agenda

1. Daily DFS – Hutchison, Anderson
2. GB / FB Splits
3. Tomorrow’s Targets – Hendricks, Norris, Franco, Deshields Jr.
4. Factor Grid

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Well we’ve made some headway in the ERA department, but the record is going to be a season-long battle and ideally we’d get the rates to about league average. At this moment, that’d be a 7.7 mark in K/9, 2.6 K/BB and a WHIP of 1.28. In short, there’s still a lot of work to do around here. This week’s recommendations each have a really tough start right out of the gate, so here’s to hoping that’ll bring out the best in their competitive spirits.

Here are the totals through half of week seven:

8-26 record
5.42 ERA
6.0 K/9
2.1 K/BB
1.44 WHIP

Here’s a look at this week’s recs, with team wOBA in parentheses. Y! ownership numbers pulled courtesy of twitter pal @PandaPete21, whom you should give a follow:

RHP Mike Foltynewicz – 16.2% ESPN/11% Y! – v. SDP (.296), @NYM (.298) Read the rest of this entry »