Fort Myers remains perfect. Miguel Sano hits his third homer. A solid day for Byron Buxton.
Monthly Archives: April 2013
April 15, 2013: Better Know a Citizen
Here's the first one, in which I interview MagUidhir. Among other things, he explains how to pronounce "MagUidhir."
Happy Birthday–April 15
Jim Creighton (1841)
Ed Abbaticchio (1877)
Ed Bailey (1931)
Willie Davis (1940)
Ted Sizemore (1945)
Jeromy Burnitz (1969)
Milton Bradley (1978)
John Danks (1985)
Jim Creighton was a star pitcher from 1857-1862, before the National League was created. He passed away from a ruptured hernia in 1862 at the age of twenty-one.
Until Henry Aaron came along, Ed Abbaticchio held the “first in the alphabet” record.
There do not appear to be any major league players with connections to the Minnesota Twins born on this day.
True Life Travelers–Life Is A Ball Game
Welcome to Jeff A week, folks. It'll be....epic.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6BKtoGiytw
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Loading... The Walkmen – Victory
While the normal guys sleep in I thought I would provide a hopeful thought for this afternoon.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCbeBaMPhYQ
Bonnaroo, 2011
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Loading... Minor Details: Games of 4/13
Fort Myers remains perfect. A sweep for Cedar Rapids. Sixth-inning blues for the Red Wings.
April 14, 2013: Bizarro
So far 4-2 against the Tigers and Orioles, and 0-5 against the Royals and Mets. Our prediction sheet could be pretty messed up, Citizens.
Also, the first BKAC podcast goes up tomorrow. It would have been today, but people aren't usually around as much on Sundays.
Happy Birthday–April 14
Cannonball Redding (1890)
Marvin Miller (1917)
Gordon Gillespie (1926)
Don Mueller (1927)
Marty Keough (1934)
Pete Rose (1941)
Joe Lahoud (1947)
Ron Schueler (1948)
Greg Maddux (1966)
David Justice (1966)
Greg Myers (1966)
Mike Trombley (1967)
Brad Ausmus (1969)
Steve Avery (1970)
Gregg Zaun (1971)
Kyle Farnsworth (1976)
Cannonball Redding was a star pitcher in the Negro Leagues.
Marvin Miller was the head of the Major League Baseball Players association from 1966-1983.
Gordon Gillespie holds the record for most wins by a college baseball coach.
It must be kind of a bummer for a big league ballplayer to not only not be the best player born on the day and year he was born, but to not even be the best player with his first name born on the day and year he was born.
Game 11 Recap: The Rest of the Story
The Mets are sending out Matt Harvey, who looks something like the exact opposite of the type of pitcher the Twins batters want to be facing right now
-- nibbish, 2:38pm 4/14/2013 - Shortly before Matt Harvey proved himself to be an extremely good pitcher.
Matt Harvey is good, and Scott Diamond could use a few innings under his belt. At least Morneau crushed a home run, so I have a happy wife.
Also, I found it humorous that Chrissy Chrissy Parm Parm switched up his walkup music two days after he got a D- for "Thrift Shop". I do have to disagree with the article, though. No way Plouffe's is a mere C+. The snippet of "When The Levee Breaks" he has is all about that foreboding drum beat. Imagine you're the opposing pitcher, and you've just loaded the bases, and you hear those drums (well, after that, you have to face a batter whose most consistent way on base is through getting hit, but for at least a couple seconds you're freaking out).
According to RhuRu, we're going to win the next ten though (that is what you meant by the LWW theory, right?), so it's all gravy.
Game 11: Mets at Twins
Okay, fine. Those poor fans last night deserved their free hot chocolate...
Scott Diamond gets his first start of the season this afternoon. He's on my fantasy team, so I'm hoping for a two hit shutout and expecting something mildly Halladay-ish (unfortunately, I'm talking 2013-era Halladay, so...). The Mets are sending out Matt Harvey, who looks something like the exact opposite of the type of pitcher the Twins batters want to be facing right now - lots of strikeouts, and lots of fly balls. Hicks ought to have fun with that.
Either way, it has to be better than last night, right?
Leaderboards
At Bats - Mauer, t-10th (43)Triples - Dozier & Plouffe, t-5th (1)
Walks - Willingham, 2nd (9)
Strikeouts - Hicks, t-1st (17)*
Strikeouts - Willingham, t-8th (13)
Hit By Pitch - Plouffe, 1st (3)
Hit By Pitch - Willingham, t-2nd (2)
Hit By Pitch - Florimon & Doumit, t-8th (1)
Sacrifices - Dozier, t-2nd (1)
Sac Flies - Dozier, Plouffe, & Parmelee t-5th (1)
Caught Stealing - Escobar, Hicks, Parmelee, Dozier, & Mastroianni, t-3rd (1)*
Steal Success Rate - Plouffe, t-1st (100%)
Outs Made - Hicks, t-1st (38)
WPA - Escobar, 7th (0.6)*
rWAR For Pitchers - Correia, 8th (0.7)W/L % - Swarzack, Roenicke, and Perkins, t-1st (1.000)*
BB/9 - Correia, 6th (1.256)
Games Played - Duesnsing, t-2nd (6)
Saves - Perkins, t-6th (2)
Innings Pitched - Correia, 10th (14.1)
Games Started - Worley, t-1st (3)
Games Started - Pelfrey, Hendriks, & Correia, t-8th (2)
Hits Allowed - Worley, 1st (25)
HR/9 - Worley & Correia, t-1st (0.0)
Losses - Worley, t-1st (2)
Wild Pitches - Roenicke, Pressley, Swarzack, & Burton, t-9th (1)
Hit By Pitch - Hendriks, t-8th (1)
Batters Faced - Worley, 7th (65)
Games Finished - Perkins, t-3rd (4)
*At least Hicks is having a better season so far than Brett Wallace (.048/.091/.048 - and he's gotten his 17 strikeouts in twenty two plate appearances).* The Twins obviously lead the majors in being caught stealing - and have fewer successful steals than any other team that tries so often.
* Of course, he made a full 0.5 of that based off of one play.
* All relievers