Radio Appearance, AUGUST 5th, 8:30 PM EST

On August 5th, 2004, I appeared on air with Rick Morris of www.Drafthelp.com to discuss many a topic on baseball. The show can be heard at:

You could also listen to my radio discussion on CERA at:
http://sportstalkcleveland.com/archives/index.htm
Scroll down to LIFE’S A PITCH for 8/5/04
(Tune in to the 33 to 59th Minute to hear the discussion)


Here is a "cheat sheet" discussing many of the topics we plan to covered.

CATCHERS ERA
To read the article we will/are discussing link to:
http://www.drafthelp.com/MLB_CatchersERA.htm

BEST NL LEFTY ISNT R.JOHNSON?

It just might be Oliver Perez (OP). The stats as of August 5th.
OP- Age 23
Randy Johson (RJ)- Age 40

W-L/ERA/K
OP- 6-6/3.13/153
RJ- 11-9/2.96/184

WHIP/SWIP/IP
OP- 1.12/0.86/123.2
RJ- 0.91/0.92/164.1

BAA/OPSA (Batting Average Against/OPS Against)
OP- .206/.636
RJ- .197/.564

K/9IP
OP- 11.13
RJ- 10.07

H/9IP
OP- 6.62
RJ- 6.46

RJ is ahead in most categories, surprisingly not in K though, but they are darn close, closer in fact than most of you imagined I bet.

Their stats through roughly their first 350 IP of their careers.

OP- AGE 23/340.1 IP/14W-21L/4.10 ERA
RJ- AGE 26/406.1 IP/24W-24L/4.03 ERA

OP- 388 K/10.26 K PER 9IP
RJ- 349 K//7.73 K PER 9IP

OP- 1.36 WHIP/0.63 SWIP
RJ- 1.40 WHIP/0.31 SWIP

OP- .231 BAA/7.70 H per 9IP
RJ- .230 BAA/7.62 H per 9IP



BEST PITCHER IN BASEBALL- JASON SCMHIDT
(You can view my previously written article at:
http://www.athomeplate.com/jschmidt.shtml)

An update on that story follows. RANKS are for MLB pitching as of August 4th:

Record 13-4 (5th best win% of .765)
2.75 ERA (3rd)
164 K (3rd)
1.03 WHIP (4th)
9.80 K/9IP (4th)
6.03 H/9IP (2nd)
.188 BAA (2nd)
.565 OPSA (2nd)

That is as impressive a record as there is in baseball.

CARLOS BELTRAN'S FAILED HOUSTON TRIP;
THERE's BEEN NO BLASTOFF

As previously predicted
(http://wildpitch.blogspot.com/2004/07/carlos-beltran-and-kauffman-stadium.html), Beltran's move to Houston has not been the offensive boon that many people expected. Here are the numbers, you might want to avert your eyes.

AB/AVG/HR/RBI
KC- 266/.278/15/51
HOU- 131/.244/11/25
***His at bat total means that you can just double his Houston numbers to match his KC totals for comparisons sake (i.e. 25 RBI become 50 or 1 behind his KC total).

R/H/2B
KC- 51/74/19
HOU- 22/32/7

OBP/SLG/OPS
KC- .367/.534/.901
HOU- .327/.565/.892

Hell, even his SB total is down (14 in KC to 6 in Houston). That means, by my count, of the 10 categories that we surveyed Beltran as an Astros is behind his KC pace in EIGHT of them.