Front Page: Will the Twins Submit To Jake Odorizzi A Qualifying Offer?

[jorgenswest]

The home run and run scoring context of 2019 adds a little disequilibrium as I look to the performances of the starting pitchers.

 

Martin Perez has a slightly better than league average FIP- at 99. That doesn’t match my perception of his performance. The other starters have a much better FIP- well above league average.

 

League average starters and better are difficult to acquire. Without question I would make qualifying offers or pick up an option for that performance. I am just having great difficulty balancing the performance that my eyes see with the league normed data found on Fangraphs.

 

Note: Perez has a FIP of 4.58 and an xFIP of 4.61 which is on the other side of league average.

[Mike Sixel]

The home run and run scoring context of 2019 adds a little disequilibrium as I look to the performances of the starting pitchers.

 

Martin Perez has a slightly better than league average FIP- at 99. That doesn’t match my perception of his performance. The other starters have a much better FIP- well above league average.

 

League average starters and better are difficult to acquire. Without question I would make qualifying offers or pick up an option for that performance. I am just having great difficulty balancing the performance that my eyes see with the league normed data found on Fangraphs.

 

Note: Perez has a FIP of 4.58 and an xFIP of 4.61 which is on the other side of league average.

Recency bias. He was great early, now bad. All we recall is the recent stuff.

 

If the plan includes Perez next year, I'll be disappointed.

[railmarshalljon]

 

Off the top of my head, we picked up 4 quality arms at the 2018 trade deadline and one more at the 2019 deadline. All but a handful of teams are bad at selecting and developing starting pitching. No clue how the Indians do it.

 

Also picked up Littell in 2017. That one has worked pretty well so far.

 

Here's hoping Falvey has a clue as to how the Indians are doing it.

[nater79a]

 

It's often worse.

 

Look.  I think the guy is actually a good pitcher.  I have to qualify these comments with that, but like you say the pitch count thing is hard to take.  He pitches at such a slow pace sometimes, too.  It is just so darn hard watching him sometimes.  He could give up a run in five innings, but if he is on pitch 100 as he walks off the mound after five innings that isn't a successful outing to me.

 

Exactly.  Very frustrating most of the time.