Down on the Farm: Advanced-A Lake Elsinore
Brief statistical analysis of Advanced-A Lake Elsinore's pitching (complete with HR/9, though virtually no commentary on that stat, as I'm not sure what's good... Peter?):
The players who jump out at you immediately are Paul Abraham and Leonel Rosales. Both have outstanding K rates, BB rates and K:BB ratios. Unfortunately 22.0 & 16.7 IP are very small sample sizes (even smaller than 44.3!). Perhaps more unfortunate is that the players are ages 25 & 23, yet they're playing Advanced-A ball.
Jared Wells, who has pitched the most innings, also has a fantastic strikeout to walk ratio at 4.71. However, Wells is doing it with a mediocre K/9 and an absolutely sick 1.42 BB/9 rate. It's impressive, but you'd really like to see the Ks.
Martinez, 28, Bonine, 23, Hayhurst, 24, Villatoro, 23, and Girardeau, 23, also managed twice as many strikeouts as walks. However, none were particularly spectacular and one would hope for better numbers from players of their ages playing High-A.
Arturo Lopez and Chris Tierney, the two youngest pitchers at 22 & 21 put up some of the most disappointing numbers of the bunch while logging more innings than all but Jared Wells.
What really bothers me is that a 28 year old who can't strike out so much as one batter per inning, or limit the opposition to 2 home runs per 9 innings pitched is fourth on the team in innings pitched. I'm not sure if there's a legitimate reason for this, but to be honest I can't think of a possible one.
Lake Elsinore's pitching leaves me feeling less than excited. Am I missing anything?
| Lake Elsinore Pitching | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | IP | K | BB | HR | K/9 | BB/9 | K/BB | HR/9 |
| Jared Wells | 44.3 | 33 | 7 | 4 | 6.70 | 1.42 | 4.71 | 0.81 |
| Chris Tierney | 41.7 | 20 | 23 | 1 | 4.32 | 4.96 | 0.87 | 0.22 |
| Arturo Lopez | 38.7 | 30 | 17 | 3 | 6.98 | 4.95 | 1.76 | 0.70 |
| Javier Martinez | 36.7 | 30 | 11 | 9 | 7.36 | 2.70 | 2.73 | 2.21 |
| Eddie Bonine | 26.3 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 7.19 | 3.42 | 2.10 | 1.03 |
| Dirk Hayhurst | 23 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 7.04 | 2.74 | 2.57 | 0.78 |
| Paul Abraham | 22.0 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 9.00 | 1.64 | 5.50 | 0.00 |
| Howard Pence | 21.0 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 4.29 | 5.14 | 0.83 | 0.43 |
| Wilmer Villatoro | 20.7 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 10.00 | 3.91 | 2.56 | 0.43 |
| Leonel Rosales | 16.7 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 11.86 | 2.69 | 4.40 | 0.54 |
| Clark Girardeau | 10.3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 5.24 | 1.75 | 3.00 | 0.00 |
| Ryan Trytten | 5.0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 10.80 | 10.80 | 1.00 | 0.00 |
The players who jump out at you immediately are Paul Abraham and Leonel Rosales. Both have outstanding K rates, BB rates and K:BB ratios. Unfortunately 22.0 & 16.7 IP are very small sample sizes (even smaller than 44.3!). Perhaps more unfortunate is that the players are ages 25 & 23, yet they're playing Advanced-A ball.
Jared Wells, who has pitched the most innings, also has a fantastic strikeout to walk ratio at 4.71. However, Wells is doing it with a mediocre K/9 and an absolutely sick 1.42 BB/9 rate. It's impressive, but you'd really like to see the Ks.
Martinez, 28, Bonine, 23, Hayhurst, 24, Villatoro, 23, and Girardeau, 23, also managed twice as many strikeouts as walks. However, none were particularly spectacular and one would hope for better numbers from players of their ages playing High-A.
Arturo Lopez and Chris Tierney, the two youngest pitchers at 22 & 21 put up some of the most disappointing numbers of the bunch while logging more innings than all but Jared Wells.
What really bothers me is that a 28 year old who can't strike out so much as one batter per inning, or limit the opposition to 2 home runs per 9 innings pitched is fourth on the team in innings pitched. I'm not sure if there's a legitimate reason for this, but to be honest I can't think of a possible one.
Lake Elsinore's pitching leaves me feeling less than excited. Am I missing anything?
posted by Richard B. Wade at 11:59 PM
5 Comments:
Martinez is in A-ball, because he had surgery to repair something in his shoulder. If I remember correctly, he did make it all the way to AAA a few years ago (2002? 3?). He still has some ability, so the Padres don't want to give up on him. And he striking 'enough' to be effective, but he does need to improve. His window is closing.
You've touched on one problem with the Padres' system. It's relatively old. Yikes.
I don't think that's the right age for Martinez. Don't have my books handy but I believe he's closer to 23-24.
He's missed significant time due to arm injuries and when I saw him earlier in the year, it looked like he was still having some command issues.
Martinez was one of my favorite Padres prospects a few years ago, but he's got a lot of catching up to do now.
That's the age minorleaguebaseball.com has for them. I don't necessarily trust it.
I've got Martinez' DOB as Dec. 9, 1982. He's pitching this year as a 22-year-old.
http://www.ducksnorts.com/weblog/012003.html#8
http://www.prospectreport.com/teams/sd.shtm
Thanks. Now he's young and he sucks instead of being old and sucking.
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