Christian Friedrich promoted to Asheville
Sheng-An Kuo was demoted to take Friedrich's place. Look in the notes section at the bottom for the mention of this.
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Russ Oates
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I should add, I'm not terribly surprised at Kuo's demotion...
Out of the bullpen he was just barely touching the mid-80’s in Lexington, and while he was effective, he had the least impressive stuff of all the Tourists relievers I saw that weekend. I’m not very high on his chances at all right now.
Sounds like a promotion based purely on talent – he’s pitched well so far, but why not promote Jonnathan Aristil as well? Aristil has pitched lights-out this year.
Not really...
Aristil’s surviving with smoke and mirrors rather than stuff. I was told by a scout before Tri-City’s season began that he had the best change-up on that staff but his other pitches just don’t overwhelm anybody and the peripheral numbers back that up. Despite the ERA, he’s not really dominating to the level Friedrich is, and while he could probably be successful at Asheville next season, Friedrich looks like he should be successful at Modesto next year, and this move is in preparation for that as much as anything.
The only peripheral where Friedrich really has the advantage is strikeouts, and as a consequence, FIP. Still, I trust you.
I’m not saying Friedrich shouldn’t be promoted, but I don’t understand how a guy like Aristil isn’t promoted by now. If he’s surviving with smoke and mirrors, what’s his future? And does keeping him at a level where he’s dominating the competition really helping him?
ehhh
apologies for the syntax on the last sentence.
Strikeouts are a huge advantage, though..
We’re not talking about just a handful more, but of nearly tripling Aristil’s rate, while halving his walk rate. What that’s saying is that Friedrich isn’t nipping around the edges, he simply just throwing it past NWL hitters and they can do nothing about it.
There are other metrics Friedrich’s got a huge advantage in that are showing his dominance, such as batters faced per out, which I like better than WHIP and even FIP in that strength of contact seems to show up more, but in the meantime, so you don’t have to just take my word for it, look at the two pitchers’ luck neutralized FIPs according to minorleaguesplits.com:
Friedrich: 2.66
Aristil: 4.78
Let me correct myself before somebody else does:
Friedrich is doubling Aristil’s K rate, he’s tripling the (K-BB) gap.
Fielding Independent Pitching
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_independent_pitching_statistics
There are a couple ways of calculating it. The idea is pretty basic, though; it measures everything that the pitcher has direct control over – walks, home runs, and strikeouts.
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