MASH Report (9/12/13)

My main goal over the season’s last few MASH reports is to keep a good list of players out for the season, but not officially on the DL. Besides the two DL lists at the bottom, I will look at a few players and updated PAIN and HURT reports.

• Tony Cingrani is out with back spasms. I could see the Reds experiment with him to find out if he is able to contribute in the post season. I would just stay away from him over the rest of the season.

• Ian Kinsler has mentioned he has an injury. Not knowing the full extent of the injury, it does seem to be affecting him. So far in September, he is hitting .217/.217/.283 with a 20% K% (twice his season average). If an owner has another option for 2B or MI, they may want to utilize it.

• Bryce Harper can’t talk about his injury. IMO, I think the Nationals just don’t want to deal with answering why they let him play hurt. The Nationals are again mishandling an injury situation which seems to be a constant theme with them.

• Felix Hernandez is going to miss a start. I have no problem with this decision. Sucks for his fantasy owners in heated end of season battles. He has always thrown a ton of innings. Seattle should not take the chance of their team’s top star getting hurt.

• Clay Buchholz’s average fastball velocity was not great in his return.

Also, he only threw pitches in the strike zone 40% of the time. I don’t think he is 100%, but his 90% is better than the 100% of the Red Sox’s other options. I think he will continue to throw until the Red Sox lock up the AL East. Once 1st place is secure, I think he will rest.

HURT (Hitter’s Under-performance from Recent Trauma) Rankings (all hitter with at least 200 PA in 2013 and 600 PA from 2010 to 2012)

Any player with a HURT value over 100 (red) has the traits of a batter playing through an injury.

Name	PAIN	PA (2010-2013)	PA (2013)
B.J. Upton	206	1883	422
Seth Smith	173	1372	394
Albert Pujols	140	2021	443
Chris Johnson	133	1295	486
Cesar Izturis	128	719	136
Josh Willingham	125	1629	425
Chris Iannetta	122	902	360
Miguel Montero	121	1457	425
Melky Cabrera	120	1716	372
Paul Konerko	118	1868	468
Lance Berkman	118	1165	288
Alex Avila	116	1318	330
Aramis Ramirez	104	1763	311
Troy Tulowitzki	101	1338	450
Mark Kotsay	101	770	151
Willie Bloomquist	100	918	121
John Jaso	97	1038	249
Starlin Castro	96	1912	633
Kevin Youkilis	96	1461	118
Matt Kemp	94	1806	251
Giancarlo Stanton	91	1498	427
Ryan Roberts	91	1115	173
Brandon Inge	91	1214	110
Jay Bruce	90	1870	629
Nick Markakis	90	1896	625
Nick Hundley	82	840	359
Jose Reyes	79	1905	344
Danny Espinosa	77	1428	167
J.P. Arencibia	74	895	457
Prince Fielder	73	2096	648

PAIN (Pitcher Abuse INdex) Rankings (min 200 pitches in Sept and Aug, comparing August and September results to the rest of the 2013 season)

Any player with a PAIN value over 100 (red) has the traits of a pitcher likely to be hurt.

Name	Pain	Velocity (Mar – July)	Zone% (Mar-July)	Velocity (Aug–Sep)	Zone% (Aug-Sep)
Jarred Cosart	173	95.0	50.9%	94.2	42.3%
Lucas Harrell	160	91.9	40.7%	91.2	35.3%
Chad Qualls	138	93.9	55.9%	94.0	45.3%
Oliver Perez	134	92.6	55.0%	91.6	48.0%
Chad Gaudin	132	91.2	51.6%	89.3	48.1%
Luke Gregerson	124	88.0	47.0%	88.4	39.0%
Yoervis Medina	119	94.2	42.3%	93.2	39.8%
Roy Halladay	117	87.9	45.4%	86.7	42.6%
Casey Janssen	115	89.6	50.4%	89.5	43.3%
Addison Reed	114	93.1	55.5%	92.0	49.7%
Dallas Keuchel	111	89.0	49.2%	89.3	41.5%
Brandon McCarthy	111	90.9	57.0%	89.5	52.0%
Wade Miley	102	91.0	48.0%	90.8	42.4%
Jose Veras	101	91.6	50.2%	90.9	45.6%
Will Harris	98	91.8	50.6%	91.4	45.1%
A.J. Griffin	97	88.8	51.5%	88.8	44.7%
Dan Jennings	96	91.9	47.3%	92.1	41.2%
John Lannan	93	87.7	50.0%	87.9	43.3%
Ryan Vogelsong	93	89.9	48.7%	88.0	48.1%
Chris Perez	92	92.5	56.3%	92.7	47.8%
Jeremy Bonderman	89	90.6	45.6%	91.2	39.1%
Tim Collins	89	93.1	51.4%	92.7	46.3%
Jerry Blevins	80	90.1	46.5%	89.2	44.9%
Hisashi Iwakuma	79	88.5	51.4%	87.6	48.1%
Alex Wood	78	92.2	54.5%	91.1	51.1%
Justin Masterson	75	92.0	51.9%	90.8	49.4%
Dale Thayer	74	92.9	55.3%	92.6	49.5%
Jonathan Papelbon	73	91.1	50.9%	90.6	47.1%
Trevor Cahill	72	89.3	46.8%	90.1	40.7%
Danny Farquhar	71	92.2	48.1%	91.7	45.1%

No real movement at the top of the list, but some interesting names a little further down.

• Justin Masterson is seeing a large drop in velocity and will be sitting out a start or two.

• Travis Wood and Hisashi Iwakuma both saw recently velocity drops, but they have been inching upward.

Wood

Iwakuma

Players on the DL

(*) 15 Day Disabled List
(**) 60 Day Disabled List
(***) 7 Day Concussion List
(****) Free Agent
Red colored entries are updates since last report.

Unofficial DL List

Official DL List