Since Roger joined the Braves in 2006 the Braves have had a 3.77 ERA which is 2nd best in baseball over that span.
Since Roger joined the Braves in 2006 the Braves have had a 3.77 ERA which is 2nd best in baseball over that span.
50PoundHead (04-24-2014), cajunrevenge (04-29-2014), jpx7 (04-28-2014), Julio3000 (04-28-2014), The Chosen One (04-24-2014)
I don't want to get into the overrated/underrated debate (and J.C. Bradbury would come in here and rhetorically kick my butt), but I think Roger has actually done more with less than Leo Mazzone did. And that's not saying Leo didn't have to cobble things together during his time in Atlanta. It just seems that McDowell always has a bag of question marks waiting for him every spring.
In another matter, I was thinking the other day when I saw Ian Desmond had notched his sixth error whether or not anyone had ever gotten to 10 errors in a season faster than anyone has gotten to 10 HRs. I'm sure someone has done it (the fielding is much better and the scoring more lenient now then in earlier eras). Pujols and Desmond are tied right now with 8 HRs and Es respectively.
Save that thought for next week 50. That was actually my planned DOTW for next week... Leo vs. Roger
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I count 2/28 possible threads that should have been surfed into the Endless Summer of Stats thread, for a 0.071428571428571 failure-average—but let's see if we can ride this wave as well as Fredi rides the walrus.
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Julio3000 (04-28-2014)
Roger is going to get hired as a manager in the next year or two. It will be a great loss.
Over the past calendar year Teheran has made 32 starts and only Clayton Kershaw and Jose Fernandez have a lower ERA than Teheran's 2.58.
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thethe (04-28-2014)
We've scored 4th lowest amount of runs in the majors, but still maintain the 3rd highest run differential, the top 2 being 2 of the top 4 offenses in the majors.
Pitching has certainly been the difference between us being 2nd best record in the bigs, and middle of the pack.
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Braves are 17-4 when they score a run.
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jpx7 (04-29-2014)