Do I really have to dive into a deep talk about Miguel Gonzalez right now? After nearly going a CGSHO against the Yankees in under 90 pitches Gonzalez went 8.0 IP, 0 ER, 2 Hits, 1 BBs, 5 Ks last night against the Royals, lowering his ERA to an even 2.00 with a 1.07 WHIP and...yeah. That's about it. His strikeout production is pretty lame, averaging five punchouts per start, though he's needed a 6.75 IPS to get that. Meanwhile, his xFIP is 4.53, SIERA is 4.29 and while 22.5% hard contact and just 11.4% line drives is nothing to scoff at, he's faced the Royals, Yankees, Twins, and Indians. Guess what, his one bad start was against the Tribe. This isn't your solution to your battered staff, nor is Gonzalez the guy you want at the end of a 12-teamer to help your ratios each week. He's going to hurt more than help, which means I'm have to say, Miguel...no.
Let’s see how every other SP did yesterday:
I’d point out with Vargas that it was one HR into the first row and 6 SINGLES. So regression, but not solid contact.
Love the site, thanks for all the insight! Instead of doing a win-loss of your streaming pick, which feels really arbitrary, could you show your season log of number of streaming starts, wins, quality starts, k’s, ERA, WHIP? That would be more helpful to the reader I think.
Thanks again!
Interesting idea, though I would think that there will certainly be some major clunkers in there that would skew the data as a whole.
In my head, there are two questions here: “How often does a streamer that Nick selects have a beneficial outing?” and “If I always stream by Nick’s suggestion, what does my end season line look like?”
To me, the more beneficial question is the first one, I’d imagine most people aren’t streaming every day and want to know if in general it will help their team or not.
I could be way off base here, but that’s my line of thinking.
All good thoughts. You are right that the first question is important and probably more useful; I guess I just don’t have a firm grasp on what qualifies as a win in the stream (fwiw, I think you do a great job of picking streams and have used them for the past couple years). Also, I think the clunkers should skew the results, because if we select that streamer and he tanks our ratios, that hurts more than just a “loss” in the stream. For instance, if I streamed Garrett last night, that would have hurt a ton more than streaming Jason Vargas. Maybe both pieces of data would be useful? A running win-loss and the year-to-date stats? It might also be useful to see what streaming every day would impact your ratios.
Thanks for the response!
Ramirez or Shoemaker as a stream tomorrow?
Conley, Hellickson, or Robbie Ray for Thursday?
Looks like Ramirez is going today instead of tomorrow…Thanks for that catch! Obviously I prefer Shoemaker.
Ray against the Padres, definitely.
Whoops, Ray’s unavailable. So – Conley or Hellickson for Wednesday? Have the roster space for both and it’s a QS league, so could snag both.
Hellickson over Conley. Both are startable.
Hey Nick,
Thanks for the continued awesome work on these roundups! Is there any way to search the content of articles (rather than just headlines) in the site search? For instance, if I search “Lester”, I get results where you used “Lester” in the article title (most recently in 2016). I’d love to be able to see all articles where Lester is mentioned in the actual article.
Thanks!
Hey Pat!
Thanks for the feedback! So I just tested the search and it looks like it first returns everything with Lester in the headline, then chronologically every time “Lester” has appeared inside an article.
Assuming you’d want to use this to find what I’ve said about Starters in past SP Roundups, we’re hoping to add an blurb archive on player pages this season. Would be an easy way to track my thoughts about players through the year!