5/16 Gameday Thread: Darwinzon Would Llove To Get the Winn

Oscar Hernandez was hit on the hand with a pitch, and was replaced by Centeno the following inning.

Watched Shawaryn on Milb.TV and it was a bittersweet game for him. 5+ innings with a career high 6 walks, but his 2 seam fastball was really strong today, and had weak contact (2 hits) all game until Trayce Thompson hit a home run off of him to end his day.

Yeah and 5 of those walks came in one start as well so the bulk of his walks on the year come from two of his eight starts.

“It’s great for him,” said Goldeyes’ manager Rick Forney. “He’s been a good arm in this league for a couple of years. He got himself in good shape this off-season, went to a workout in April and threw in front of the Red Sox. Credit the Red Sox for putting something together for ‘indy’ ball guys and inviting him down there. It gives them a chance to see guys just in case they have some holes that they need to fill during the season.”

There are three Dylan Thompsons listed in BBR and this could be any one of them!

It looks like a screwball. If it actually does that, that’s a pretty amazing pitch. I’d love to see statcast on it, and get an idea of the horizontal movement.

My man Cole Brannen with another 2-hit game. Sitting right on the Mendoza line. Fingers crossed he’s flipped a switch.

Also, Duran with Salem’s only two hits so far back up to .411/.471/.539, with a 0.533 BABIP in 157 PA.

Duran's line keeps getting more and more bizarre. His BABIP was unsustainably high two weeks ago. Then he basically stopped hitting extra-base hits and started striking out a little more, and his average has done nothing but climb. His Iso in May is .091. If his BABIP for the month was "only" .394--higher than the best seasons of Tony Gwynn or Wade Boggs-- his slash line for the month would be .295/.380/.386.

First, I realize the video game numbers are unsustainable.

On the other hand, although there might be 100 points BABIP difference between A+ and MLB defenses, that has really not come into play much from what I've seen. There have been very few close defensive plays. He's hitting them hard and hitting them where they ain't. If you put a major league defense behind the pitcher there wouldn't have been a 100 point difference in BABIP. Major leaguers aren't getting to the rocket grounders up the middle or the line drives into the outfield.

The bigger question to me is if he can continue to hit them where they ain't against better pitching. If he can, he's going to set new bars in BABIP.

I'm not sure where to get month by month breakdowns of teams but I am guessing the entire team has done that. They seem to be geared more towards station to station baseball. That could be due to the park they play in.

Note that his OPS is also climbing. I'm guessing the same is also true there for the team.