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Gleeful Amaro may finally be willing to reveal secret Even Ultimater Zone Rating data showing Burrell’s glove as a full-time DH will cost the Rays 17 runs in 2009
By egrissom | January 7, 2009
Compared to other full-time DHs, of course.
Pat Burrell signed with the Rays. But the show must go on.
In 2008, Phillies starting pitchers threw 966 2/3 innings and were charged with 489 runs.
For each of the seven starting pitchers the Phils used, here’s how many innings they threw as a starter, how many runs they allowed, the percentage of the innings that they threw for all Phillies starters, the percentage of the runs they allowed for all Phillies starters and the difference between the percentage of the innings they pitched and the runs they allowed:
| Player | IP | RA | % IP | % RA | Diff |
| Hamels | 227.3 | 89 | 23.5 | 18.2 | 5.3 |
| Moyer | 196.3 | 85 | 20.3 | 17.4 | 2.9 |
| Myers | 190 | 103 | 19.7 | 21.1 | -1.4 |
| Blanton | 70.7 | 36 | 7.3 | 7.4 | -0.1 |
| Kendrick | 154.7 | 102 | 16.0 | 20.9 | -4.9 |
| Eaton | 104 | 68 | 10.8 | 13.9 | -3.1 |
| Happ | 23.7 | 6 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
If you order those guys from best difference to worst, the list looks like this: Hamels, Moyer, Happ, Blanton, Myers, Eaton, Kendrick.
The Phillies signed 30-year-old right-handed hitting second baseman Marcus Giles to a minor league deal, which will give him a chance to renew his friendship with Carlos Ruiz. On August 24, 2007, Ruiz’s absurd slide into Giles at second base touched off a bench-clearing incident between the Phils and Padres. That’s a great signing for the Phils, who have had a bad couple of weeks. Giles has a career 277/353/429 line in about 3,000 at-bats in the major leagues.
This article suggests that the Phillies were unaware of at least some of what was happening with Romero and his hearings regarding banned substances.
The Chan Ho Park signing was completed. Amaro says that Park will compete for a spot in the rotation.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
As I stated in the last post’s comments, I like the Giles signing a lot. I think this gives them some nice insurance, even if I would rather have Donald win the job.
I find it very puzzling that the Phillies were unaware of the Romero situation. I read somewhere that the arbitrators decision was given in November. That just seems like poor communication on somebody’s part whose job it is to communicate this sort of thing!
January 7th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
I didn’t understand the thing about them being unaware either. Not sure what they were unaware of or when. Seems very odd.
Glad to have Giles, too. Don’t know how to finish the “Marcus Giles is the _____nth best right-handed hitter in the Phillies organziation” sentence but the answer is something high.