Tuesday, January 18, 2005
AROUND THE WEB
- Clutch DaVanon has inked a one-year deal with the Lads, worth $950K. Good value.
- Sean is back with a typically savvy look at what the Angels are doing to replace what they've lost offensivly from Glaus, Eckstein, and Guillen. The outlook is somewhat less than inspiring, and I think Sean is on target.
- Jay Jaffe has posted his park-adjusted DIPS figures for 2004. Things look good for the Halos: Scot Shields ranked third in the game amongst qualifiers in DIPS ERA, and K-Rod's monster season does not appear to have been motivated by luck in any way, as his ERA was only .06 ahead of his DIPS ERA. In fact just about every regular Angel pitcher performed close to how you would expect, with the notable exception of John Lackey's, whose DIPS ERA of 4.16 was .52 better than his actual mark. As it often seemed Lackey was being unfairly victimized by bleeds and bloops, that's a validation for the fact that he could post better numbers in 2005. Alongside expected bounce-backs from Bartolo Colon and possibly even Jarrod Washburn, and the possibility that a healthy Paul Byrd should solve the five-spot wound, it's another indicator that the rotation is one spot on the team where we can be optimistic about some improvement in the coming season.
- I just noticed that the Yahoo team page for the Angels calls them the Los Angeles Angels, with no mention of Anaheim (except for last year's standings). So the name change is working somewhere.
- Clutch DaVanon has inked a one-year deal with the Lads, worth $950K. Good value.
- Sean is back with a typically savvy look at what the Angels are doing to replace what they've lost offensivly from Glaus, Eckstein, and Guillen. The outlook is somewhat less than inspiring, and I think Sean is on target.
- Jay Jaffe has posted his park-adjusted DIPS figures for 2004. Things look good for the Halos: Scot Shields ranked third in the game amongst qualifiers in DIPS ERA, and K-Rod's monster season does not appear to have been motivated by luck in any way, as his ERA was only .06 ahead of his DIPS ERA. In fact just about every regular Angel pitcher performed close to how you would expect, with the notable exception of John Lackey's, whose DIPS ERA of 4.16 was .52 better than his actual mark. As it often seemed Lackey was being unfairly victimized by bleeds and bloops, that's a validation for the fact that he could post better numbers in 2005. Alongside expected bounce-backs from Bartolo Colon and possibly even Jarrod Washburn, and the possibility that a healthy Paul Byrd should solve the five-spot wound, it's another indicator that the rotation is one spot on the team where we can be optimistic about some improvement in the coming season.
- I just noticed that the Yahoo team page for the Angels calls them the Los Angeles Angels, with no mention of Anaheim (except for last year's standings). So the name change is working somewhere.
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