The BBA Today #80 - Who Needs Sleep?

[Ted]

Ron Collins and Ted Schmidt discuss the impending trade deadline and which teams might be buyers. Montreal has surprisingly made a race out of the Atlantic. Cesar Feliciana proves that Ted can't draft hitters, and Phoenix has some bats we should talk about. Throughout the podcast, a game Ron drags an exhausted Ted to topic after topic, who stayed up way too late playing video games the night before like a mature adult.

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[HerbD]

Feliciana has definitely been frustrating for me. He actually has lost some contact VRHP since he was sent down. He was at 9 and now is at 8.

The Blazers know they are playing over their head this entire season but we are enjoying int.

[usnspecialist]

I always enjoy the snark at the end of "why are people still listening to us".

[RonCo]

A couple of interesting bits of data on the two Phoenix players we chatted about:

Within the concept of randomness, Hernández's BABIP has appeared to be growing:

Ramiro Hernández	Age	G	AB	H	HR	K	AVG	BABIP
2042 Phoenix - BBA	21	30	88	14	2	28	0.159	0.207
2043 Phoenix - BBA	22	108	371	76	20	109	0.205	0.231
2044 Phoenix - BBA	23	110	365	92	25	99	0.252	0.278
2045 Phoenix - BBA	24	105	423	128	36	135	0.303	0.365

Also, the impact of Dashielle Fairborne at shortstop has been huge this year. Here is the Phoenix PAA measures for each GB zone. Note, too, the impact of playing a 4 Range at 2B...

PLAYS ABOVE AVG	3L	3	34	4	4M	6M	6	56	5	5L
SHALLOW	0.00	-1.92	0.08	-3.21	0.98	0.14	6.60	-0.94	2.36	0.00
MID	0.09	-0.29	-4.56	1.04	-1.32	2.99	1.44	1.04	0.33	-0.03
DEEP	0.00	-0.50	-7.93	2.89	-3.61	8.55	5.48	9.14	-1.80	0.00