RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and the Bust 2/19/2015
Episode 196
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In this episode, Paul Sporer and Eno Sarris discuss Jurickson Profar, Kenley Jansen, Chris Owings, and Everth Cabrera and then dive into the NL West team previews with ARI and COL.
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Re: Blackmon/Dickerson playing time… The FG depth chart for the Rockies OF is kind of understandably a mess with 4 guys in the mix. If CarGo doesn’t get hurt, 4 guys for 3 spots?
1) I’ve been driving this bus for a while, but it makes me very sad that Jorge De La Rosa is stuck in Coors so we just write him off as bad. He ditched a Slider for a good Cutter that he used 30% of the time for 12% Whiffs and 53% GB. He has had a Curve that flashes well above average with 35% Whiffs/Swing sometimes and show groundball ability. The success of the Splitter is a bit wonky, but it is an above average pitch with often Whiff rates over 20% and above average grounder rates. The things is…Coors and Curveballs. He doesn’t use it there often, even though he has had success when throwing it more. The age old story of the Curve not dropping at Coors. But it is a shame because I think he could find success if he went the Roy Holladay path in becoming a Cutter,Curveball,Splitter guy, which is all you could ask for from a lefty arsenal wise. I wish he got moved.
2) Allen Webster kinda reminds me of Liriano if he would ditch the four seamer for his much better sinker. Guys that are inconsistent with bad command, but BIG Slider/Changeup guys with a good sinker. If you take a look at the heatmaps, they both throw the slider down and away and the change down and in to same handed guys, but Webster has the problem of missing and elevating in the zone(Liriano has too for that matter), but I think that could be a path to follow if Webster wants to go the High K High BB route….which seems more likely to me.
Paul, you touched on this in the podcast, but could you expound a bit more on two Tigers topics:
(1) Playing time for CF (Davis vs. Gose)
(2) Who is going to DH while Victor is out?
Thanks! You’re off to a great start driving the ‘cast!