Rockies bullpen fails again, team suffers 6-8 loss

I looked it up. We’ve k’d looking 32% of the time this year (68% of k’s are swinging). This leaves us tied with the Mets and the Dodgers for MOST looking k’s in the NL. League average is 26%. After the three teams tied at 32%, the next closest teams are the Nats and the DBacks at 28%. The Padres and the Giants come in at 26% and 25% respectively.

However, the Rockies also lead the National League in pitches per plate appearance with 3.99. League average is 3.84. The Dodgers are 5th and the Mets are 8th in pitches per plate appearance (with 3.93 and 3.88 respectively).

The Rockies have been thrown strikes 61% of the time with the league average being 62% of the time. Note however that the range of this stat is extremely small (60%-64%). The top four teams who’ve been thrown the least amount of strikes also includes the Dodgers and the Mets (along with the Brewers).

The AL average for looking k’s is 27% with Boston being the highest at 34% and the Yankees being second at striking out looking with 31%.

What seems to be most interesting of all is that the Rockies percentage of looking strikes relative to swinging strikes/foul strikes/in play is 28%. The league average for looking strikes is 29%. Here, the Mets are first with 33% while the Dodgers are fourth with 31%.

You’d think that the team with the most looking k’s in the NL would also be up there in the most looking-strikes. I wonder exactly what this means – to borrow a page from Milton Bradley, maybe umps are cheating us (but I doubt it). Maybe we just freeze up with two strikes or something. I know I’ve seen Iannetta, who I think has a great eye get to two strikes and get called out looking a few times. And what it really comes down to is not whether it was a strike or a ball but that even on pitches that were balls 1. they were extremely close and 2. Iannetta didn’t protect the plate.

it is becoming very difficult to follow this team…

bench Tulo for doing something similar? I knew that benching was less a solution and more some superficial managing charade.

Post 1000 for me!

Its still 5:30 Mountain Time right now. Get it done with.

I actually predicted this in this week’s prediction thread.

Partly for the same reason as you, but partly also because I like Hurdle as a person, and I can’t ever be happy about someone losing their job.

But that being said, doesn’t mean I don’t think it should happen.

Mark Corey
Craig Dingman
Mark Little
Blaine Neal
Michael Restovich

And I think thats it.

Brumbaugh I want to say was 2001 – corner outfield type. Think I saw him get a start against Anaheim in an interleague game.

Corey was 02 I think… acquired from the Mets, most famous for having a marijuana-related seizure with the Mets. (I swear that’s at least half true, there was an incident involving him, Grant Roberts, and some weed – one of the two had a bad reaction to it and I think it was Corey.) Saw him pitch in a game where Sammy Sosa hit three jacks in three at-bats, still one of the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen.

Gissell was a late 04 callup who had a decent year in the Springs that year. Hawblitzel was an inaugural Rockie.

Mark Kroon was… 05, I’m pretty sure, REAL hard thrower but could not locate the plate to save his life. Saw him in the Springs that year – he and Ryan Anderson made for one entertaining bullpen – talk about million dollar arms who could have used OnStar to find the zone.

Machado was a utilityman who played in two or three games for us in either 04 or 05 – frankly, those two years kind of run together.

McKeel was a catcher… 01 or 02 I think. I could be getting him confused with Mandy Romero, or they might have been the same person – journeyman catcher with only a handful of big-time ABs. Neal was 05, big burly reliever. Nunez was 04 and I kinda thought he might be good, but no such luck. Had a decent arm.

Restovich was either 04 or 05, corner outfielder who never got a break with the Twins, or the Rockies as it turned out.

Williams was a Rockie in 05, as generic a lefty reliever as I can remember.

I could tell you what position the rest of them were, I’m sure, but nothing else detailed about them.

i don’t remember. But I do recall a few of these.

Corey I do he was a reliever,
Brumbaugh OF came through the Texas system I knew him from AAA OKC.
Restovich was an OF and the protypical AAAA player,
and Blaine Neal was a middle reliever, and I think he’s still bouncing around was with Florida at one time. .

But my favorite was Jason Romano. He came through the Texas Rangers organization and in the early 00’s. I think he was in Colorado 03. He was originally a 2ndbaseman. Moved to the OF. Real hustle guy with speed. First guy to get his uni dirty in AAA. Couldn’t hit major league pitching. He was a guy I hoped would make it, as I loved him when he was in OKC.

Brumbaugh, Corey (RHRP), Dingman (RHRP), Encarnación (OF from OAK), Gissell (RHRP), Kroon (RHRP), Little (OF), Lowe (RHRP), Neal (RHRP), Núñez (RHRP), Restovich (OF to PIT), Romano (OF from TX) and Sefcik (UTIL). They all are quite obscure though. I remember Encarnacion most though, since everyone was saying it was going to be okay that we traded Neifi since those to prospects would be awesome.

Funny story though…two of the players on the list (Gissell and Sanchez) combined for a no-hitter for the Sky Sox about five years ago

It was those two and… oh, Todd Belitz, I think. For Jermaine Dye. Ouch.

before the game ended since I left before it ended. Sorry about that.

o well

When Michael Bolton uses the bottom of the handle to wreck the printer.

I foresee a future where gangs of face painted hooligans in spiked shoulderpads roam the wastelands looking for petrol. And Clint Hurdle will be managing the Rockies,who by now are made up of flesh eating half zombie/half man mutations.

And they’re 20 games out of first place.

Post apocalyptic Clint : “right now, we’re not doing the zombie things we need to do, and we’re not doing the human things we need to do. We’ve got a find a way to slow the game down and do the little things.”

the reanimated head of Charlie Monfort could not be reached for comment.

I think you may be right. Every time I think about Charlie Monfort’s quote of “wins and losses aren’t what we’re looking at” (or something very similar to that), I shudder and resign myself to HurdleLogic forever.

Not a bad place to watch a game…though there really aren’t a lot of bad places for such things.

can I come too?

“The Rockies have acquired Padres IF David Eckstein in exchange for A-ball IF Hector Gomez”

We were 3-1 and had beaten Haren and Hamels..and beat up Webb