Tm R/G AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS Durham 5.51 3143 501 867 191 13 97 100 24 354 662 .276 .354 .437 .791 VSL Rays 5.35 1590 262 410 79 13 21 74 37 208 277 .258 .359 .364 .722 DSL Rays 5.00 1271 200 313 61 14 7 63 27 162 291 .246 .347 .333 .680 Hudson Valley 4.42 891 115 215 54 6 9 40 11 78 196 .241 .316 .346 .662 Montgomery 4.21 2932 375 734 130 29 49 61 26 311 614 .250 .327 .365 .692 Bowling Green 4.09 2951 364 760 143 25 43 150 52 275 631 .258 .328 .367 .695 Charlotte 4.08 2984 367 769 150 31 48 76 31 290 552 .258 .330 .377 .707 GCL Rays 3.73 746 82 164 33 6 9 21 12 67 185 .220 .294 .316 .610 Princeton 3.13 755 72 159 38 4 7 20 17 60 187 .211 .279 .299 .578Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table Generated 7/16/2010.
Not everyone is hitting well, but overall the Renegades 4.42 runs per game is second among the Rays U.S.-based affiliates. The problem is the pitching, here are the affiliates by ERA:
Tm W L W-L% ERA G IP WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Princeton 10 13 .435 2.43 23 207.2 1.161 7.9 0.3 2.5 7.2 2.88 Charlotte 52 38 .578 3.00 90 788.2 1.194 7.9 0.3 2.9 8.8 3.06 Durham 55 36 .604 3.47 91 804.1 1.286 8.4 0.7 3.2 7.2 2.28 DSL Rays 22 18 .550 3.50 40 339.1 1.459 8.7 0.3 4.5 6.5 1.46 GCL Rays 10 12 .455 3.54 22 203.2 1.306 8.4 0.3 3.3 6.0 1.81 VSL Rays 26 23 .531 3.57 49 421.1 1.327 8.4 0.6 3.5 6.4 1.81 Montgomery 50 39 .562 3.59 89 780.0 1.365 8.9 0.7 3.4 7.9 2.35 Bowling Green 41 48 .461 3.95 89 772.1 1.319 8.3 0.7 3.6 8.4 2.34 Hudson Valley 11 15 .423 4.71 26 231.1 1.418 9.4 0.7 3.4 7.4 2.18Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table Generated 7/16/2010.
Also note, the affiliate with the 2nd worst record, the Princeton Rays, has the exact opposite problem, great pitching and no offense. Back to the Renegades pitching, 8 of the 15 pitchers who have appeared for the Gades are doing okay, but the other 7 (by ERA, see below) have pitched a lot more innings, leading to the high team ERA:
Age ERA G GS IP WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Austin Hubbard 22 0.00 7 0 9.2 0.931 3.7 0.0 4.7 11.2 2.40 Jacob Thompson 20 0.00 3 0 7.0 1.143 5.1 0.0 5.1 11.6 2.25 Kenneth Kelly 21 0.00 2 0 4.1 0.462 4.2 0.0 0.0 14.5 ~~ Adam Liberatore* 23 1.59 5 0 5.2 2.294 11.1 0.0 9.5 12.7 1.33 Nate Garcia 22 2.41 7 3 18.2 1.179 6.3 0.5 4.3 5.3 1.22 Steve Hiscock 22 3.07 7 0 14.2 0.955 6.1 0.6 2.5 11.0 4.50 Robert Dickmann* 23 3.77 6 2 14.1 1.186 7.5 0.6 3.1 6.3 2.00 Wilmer Almonte 20 3.86 5 5 23.1 1.371 10.0 1.2 2.3 6.2 2.67 Omar Bencomo 21 4.91 6 2 22.0 0.909 6.5 1.6 1.6 9.0 5.50 Miguel Sierra 21 4.97 6 5 25.1 1.697 12.4 0.4 2.8 5.3 1.88 Devin Fuller 21 6.11 6 6 28.0 1.250 10.3 1.3 1.0 7.1 7.33 Julius Dettrich* 21 6.35 6 3 22.2 1.765 10.3 0.0 5.6 3.6 0.64 Kyle Ayers 20 7.30 5 0 12.1 2.108 14.6 0.7 4.4 7.3 1.67 Hunter Hill 21 8.38 7 0 9.2 1.759 11.2 0.0 4.7 7.4 1.60 Kevin Chavez 21 9.22 6 0 13.2 2.195 14.5 1.3 5.3 8.6 1.63 15 Players 21.2 4.71 26 26 231.1 1.418 9.4 0.7 3.4 7.4 2.18Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table Generated 7/16/2010.
The starting pitching is what is hurting the Renegades. The eight pitchers (down through Almonte) with respectable sub-4.00 ERA's have made a combined 10 starts (with 5 by Almonte who has the highest ERA of the 8), and the bottom 7 have made 16 starts.
Sierra is an unknown still, at least to me, but Fuller should be fine going forward. I like Dettrich too, but those walk and strikeout rates are awful so far. Lots of high home run per 9 rates on the list, especially Omar Bencomo, who has great strikeout and walk rates and hasn't allowed many hits. Amazingly, 25% (4 HR out of 16 hits total) of the hits Bencomo has allowed have gone over the wall. That can't last.
The Renegades are only 5.5 games out of first. Expect Fuller, Dettrich and Bencomo to improve quite a bit in the next few weeks and the Gades to move up in the standings. And more help is on the way. In case you missed the link in the comments, Sean T. McMann of the Poughkeepsie Journal has a great article about Jake Thompson, they Rays 2nd round pick in the June draft out of Long Beach State. He'll being making his first professional start on Saturday. Now lets just hope that offense keeps producing.
I agree the pitching has been very streaky. There have been numerous games when even after the starting pitching puts them in a hole. The bats resrespond only to watch the pitchers put them bebjbehind again.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the streakyness of the pitching, too, but I still think the offense/defense of the position players is a major part of the problem. Hudson Valley doesn't seem to know how to get players home. Our highesst outfielder is bating .213. The other 2 ae below .200.
ReplyDeleteLast night Wilmer Almonte pitched 8 innings and did a fabulous job. Kyle Ayers came in and should have ended the game, but our right fielder dropped the ball- thus negating the 3rd out. Williamsport went ahead. Then in the bottom of the inning, Elias Otero was left standing on base for the tieing run, but 3 out later we lost.