Comments on: Pitching Rules the Day

By: Stephanie Liscio

Stephanie Liscio — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:02:24 +0000

It’s the past 10 seasons, Indians, playoff teams, and best records in the Cactus and Grapefruit leagues. So I have one chart that’s just the Indians spring/regular season records. Then I have a bunch of charts that are all of the playoff teams…one chart per year. I wanted to break it down like that, because I was curious about 2006 and 2009 and whether or not things seemed off during World Classic years. They don’t appear that different than the rest though.

I’ll hopefully have it up in the next day or so. Like I said, I already pulled the stats and made the charts, but the post itself is still kind of a mess!

By: Stephanie Liscio

Stephanie Liscio — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:58:51 +0000

I think some of the MLB.com audio games are free this spring. I know they were saying on Twitter that today’s was.

By: no1ever

no1ever — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:36:25 +0000

What’s the sample size? I’d be interested to see this.

By: Mary Jo

Mary Jo — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:17:47 +0000

Finally, a perk of being an out-of-market Tribe fan. Webcast are usually the Hammy-free version of the radio games, but at least you can still HEAR the game. Last year they usually paired Rosie with either a local Cleveland area reporter or a former member of the Tribe as the Color Analyst. If I remember right (which I probably don’t) Paul Assenmacher was hysterical. At least I do know it was a former player if not Ossie. If you’re a die-hard Tribe fan it might be worth $20 to you to subscribe to either MLB Gameday or AtBat13 for your Droid or iPhone so you can hear the webcasts.

By: Stephanie Liscio

Stephanie Liscio — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:04:09 +0000

I’ve actually been working on a post comparing spring records and regular season records. It’s still kind of a mess, so it isn’t up yet (everything is in tables, otherwise it’s mostly chaos). My hypothesis going into it was that a good spring doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good season, but that playoff teams would have respectable springs. Not to spoil the surprise, but over the past 10 seasons, playoff teams had a record of .500 or better in the spring 67% of the time. Only twice did a team with the worst spring record make the playoffs.

By: no1ever

no1ever — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:59:22 +0000

Hamilton and Rosenhaus said the wind during the Red’s game was brutal, so I think that played a big factor in the offense (Indians didn’t hit well either). Ludwick had two shots that I think got killed by the wind.

There are good stats to observe in Spring Training. They are:

Batters – Injury Report, Isolated Power, K%, pitches seen

Pitchers – Injury Report, no seriously, Injury Report, BB/K Ratio, gb/fb %, Injury Report

I would argue the only things Wins indicate is bench depth, but it’s likely correlative, not causative.

By: thirdsaint

thirdsaint — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:29:26 +0000

Ha, yeah, the wins mean nothing but I’m just glad to see our key hitters hitting and our pitchers doing well.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:29:26 +0000

Actually, studies show that there is indeed a correlation between spring training and the regular season. The better a team does in spring training, the better they will do in the regular season, generally speaking. So apparently the Tribe will go 162-0!

By: Swift

Swift — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:08:08 +0000

“to maintain their undefeated streak so far in spring training”

I’ve had a belief since I was a kid in the 60s following the NY Mets that the better the team did in spring training, the worse they did during the season. I hope the Indians don’t carry their winning streak all the way to opening day.