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Me Elsewhere: Hawpin’ on the Bandwagon

by Geoff Young on May 17, 2011 (4) Comments

My latest at Baseball Prospectus (free!) touches on the Rockies’ disastrous end-game performance this year (they’ve been outscored, 17-1, in the ninth inning or later so far), Hong-Chih Kuo’s bout with anxiety disorder, and the rest of what’s happening in the National League West… including the sudden emergence of one Brad Hawpe.

Less Is Less

by Geoff Young on Apr 25, 2011 (16) Comments

I’ve run out of words to describe the ineptitude of the Padres offense. Well, words that I care to use in decent company. Here’s how they fared while being swept at Petco Park by the Phillies: G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG 4 145 133 3 22 [...]

Me, Elsewhere: Things to Fear in the West

by Geoff Young on Apr 19, 2011 (2) Comments

My latest at Baseball Prospectus ($) looks at the crazy hot starts of Jonathan Herrera and Troy Tulowitzki in Colorado, and Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier in Los Angeles. Kemp and Arizona’s Justin Upton are of particular concern because both are young and talented, and both seem to have figured out the strike zone. The [...]

Pity About the Padres Offense

by Geoff Young on Apr 03, 2011 (17) Comments

The Padres made Jake Westbrook work hard on Saturday in St. Louis. The veteran right-hander used 89 pitches and didn’t survive the fifth inning. Five walks helped. Three of those five walks came around to score.

Brain Dump: Stuff in the Works

by Geoff Young on Jan 12, 2011 (5) Comments

If I don’t share these with you, I risk not committing. Here are things I’m working on and hoping to publish at Ducksnorts or elsewhere over the next, oh, couple months or so…

Links for 31 Oct 08

by Geoff Young on Oct 31, 2008 (8) Comments

Happy Halloween! To the links… Sabathia’s free agency could set up a big payday for Padres ace (San Diego Union-Tribune). Reader Nick G. sends us an update on the Jake Peavy “story” from Tom Krasovic. Quoth Peavy’s agent, Barry Axelrod: Making this about money is not my style, nor Jake’s style. I think we proved [...]

OBG08 Revisited: Hitters

by Geoff Young on Oct 08, 2008 (19) Comments

Back in February we did some community projections for the 2008 Padres. In the interest of accountability, here’s how we measured up to reality. Catchers Josh Bard, 2008   PA BA OBP SLG Projected 425 .278 .357 .410 Actual 198 .202 .279 .270 Yuck. Our most pessimistic projection had Bard at a 725 OPS. Michael [...]

Faulty Radar, and Performance by Position

by Geoff Young on Sep 24, 2008 (4) Comments

I’ve got a few things on my mind this morning. First off, I’m reorganizing the categories of this here blog, trying to put some of those information architecture skills I learned at my last job to use. Among other things, I’m discovering that it’s a lot harder to organize your own stuff than someone else’s. [...]

When Projections Go Bad

by Geoff Young on May 30, 2008 (42) Comments

What the heck, now is as good a time as any to revisit pre-season projections. I know, OPS and ERA aren’t the end-all and be-all, but they’re good enough for government work… Projections vs Reality: Hitters   OPS Player BJ CH MA MI ZI DS Act Statistics are courtesy of FanGraphs and are through games [...]

IGD: Padres @ Cubs (15 May 08)

by Geoff Young on May 15, 2008 (188) Comments

Padres (15-26) @ Cubs (24-16) Greg Maddux vs Ryan Dempster 11:20 a.m. PT no television AM 1090, FM 105.7, XM 183 MLB, B-R The Padres showed some good fight at the end of Wednesday evening’s game. Unfortunately they spent much of the early part digging themselves into a deep, dark hole. Still, I liked the [...]