David Ginsburg on George Sherrill

by Scott Christ on Mar 4, 2009 8:10 AM EST in News & Rumors

George Sherrill had his finest season in the major leagues last year, yet the Baltimore Orioles closer was disappointed in his performance despite 31 saves.

2008: 4.72 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 31 SV, 53.1 IP, 9.8 K/9, 5.6 BB/9

2007: 2.36 ERA, 0.99 WHIP, 3 SV, 45.2 IP, 11.0 K/9, 3.4 BB/9

In other words: "George Sherrill was allowed to save games in the major leagues last year and was the mercy pick as Orioles representative in the All-Star game, so it was his finest season."

On a sort of related note, I finally sat through the O's feature on "30 Clubs in 30 Days," and I watched the Blue Jays last night, too. The MLB Network is cool and all, but their studio work is just horrendous. They make John Kruk and Steve Phillips look good. They spend most of their time discussing strategy for Little League baseball. "Wait for your pitch! Then drive it! That's what Cito Gaston is all about." Awesome. I also hear the Blue Jays would like Alex Rios to hit more home runs.

It's like when Ryne Sandberg worked for Yahoo! Sports and decided that Sammy Sosa was the best player on the Orioles prior to the 2005 season, and that nobody knew who anyone was besides Sosa and Tejada.

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The problem with MLBN

Is that they’re all old baseball players except for that main dude who I suppose is supposed to be the Karl Ravech (but who is no Karl). I get that one of the rights of being an old ball player is you get to have a future in the media, but I just wish they’d employ actual analysts.

A few days ago I was watching it and they were talking about stats and PECOTA and projections and basically making fun of the entire thing, with Harold Reynolds proclaiming, “Statistics are ridiculous, man!”

[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8

by Stacey on Mar 4, 2009 8:20 AM EST reply actions

FYI

Cito Gaston manages with his eyes. That’s why he won two World Series championships. It wasn’t all the good-to-great players on those teams. It was Cito giving them such good advice as ’don’t swing at bad pitches’ or ‘pitch good.’

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by Scott Christ on Mar 4, 2009 8:50 AM EST up reply actions

Cito still sucks

Also, I remember when the NFL netwok came out, a lot of similar problems that Stacey described. It will get better.

The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST

by the fix is in on Mar 4, 2009 9:15 AM EST up reply actions

Earl

Kind of reminds me of one of Earl’s quotes:

“My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like ’C’mon Boog,’ ‘Get ahold of one, Frank,’ or ’Let’s go, Brooks.’” – Earl Weaver

"Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!" --Tanner Boyle

by BirdFanInPhilly on Mar 4, 2009 9:20 AM EST up reply actions