2054 SP FA Cost / Benefit Analysis

[Providence A's]

A brief analysis bent in my favor to demonstrate how I got more out of a cheaper (greedy prick now) SP compared to the two more expensive / sought after SPs (one wouldn't talk to me and one took slightly more annually, but half as many years). All three pitchers have performed well. I am not in anyway saying these guys didn't perform. They just got out-performed at a fraction of the cost.

Pitcher # 1
SP Hyun-jin Ryu - signed for $13.5 mil x 4 years ($27 mil for 2054 / 2055).

2054 / 2055 : 64 GS, 28 wins, 17 losses, 408 IP, 3.31 ERA, 451 hits, 18 homers, 48 walks, 206 K's, 1.22 WHIP, 2 CG / 2 SHO.

Pitcher # 2
SP Hisashi Iwakuma - signed for $9.7 mil x 3 years ($19.4 mil for 2054 / 2055).

2054 / 2055 : 68 GS, 23 wins, 23 losses, 430 IP, 3.62 ERA, 466 hits, 42 homers, 54 walks, 291 K's, 1.21 WHIP, 3 CG / 3 SHO.

Pitcher # 3
SP Robert Greenly - signed for $2.1 mil x 2 years ($4.2 mil for 2054 / 2055).

2054 / 2055 : 78 GS, 41 wins, 19 losses, 537 1/3 IP, 2.91 ERA, 437 hits, 34 homers, 216 walks, 482 K's, 1.215 WHIP, 7 CG / 3 SHO.



Greenly's 2-year cost was almost 1/5 of Iwakuma's cost and almost 1/7th of Ryu's cost. He had more GS, more wins, more IP, a lower ERA, less hits, more walks, and more K's than both pitchers. All three had virtually the same WHIP despite Greenly's walk total.

Where the other 2 will beat out Greenly is going forward. Obviously, they're younger and signed for longer. I just wanted to compare the 2 year period to the two SPs that spurned the pitching haven known as the New York Mets.

[Kingdom]

Damn it. I was hoping this was going to be the first chapter of your How to 6.5 Book.



..or maybe this is?

[Porter]

Ryu boosted to 8-10-10.

[Providence A's]

Yea. But that doesn't change the 2-year stats that I was comparing. IIRC he was 7,10,9. That doesn't really have anything to do with what I was talking about.

[Trendy Bastard]

See, if I would have signed Greenly he'd have a high 4 ERA with double the walks.

[Kingdom]

PA uses cheat codes. It's called Dave Duncan

[Mach]

Where's the Leo Mazzone cheat code?

[Kingdom]

It died in New York

[Providence A's]

See, if I would have signed Greenly he'd have a high 4 ERA with double the walks.

Truth. So let this be warning to all other GMs. Don't bother trying to sign him because he will stink for you.

[madsheep]

Greenly sucked when he was on my team. Your defense definately skewed his numbers. He's not that good but is a great fit and has great value all in all

[Providence A's]

There were 16 teams with fewer errors than my team this year so I don't know how much defense helped this season. My SS had 33 errors lol.

[Kingdom]

He also covers a ton of ground. I'd rather have a high range SS and live with the errors than a statue.

[Kingdom]

Of course I platoon at SS with a statue that hits like a boss and a high range fielder that hits like Rey Ordonez.

[Providence A's]

He also covers a ton of ground. I'd rather have a high range SS and live with the errors than a statue.

True. I was just saying that going by errors, we had a middle of the road defense. OOTP 6.5 doesn't lend itself to advanced defensive metrics. Greenly struck out a lot of hitters, too so I just felt like saying it was because of my defense sort of takes away from what he did somewhat.

[Kingdom]

Defense sabermetrics or not, I can just skim over your ratings report and see mostly 7 or higher range ratings- with several 9's and 10's. I think it's safe to say you have a pretty good defense. Baltimore and the other New York tend to have a lot of high range players and they're usually two of the top in the AL.

I'd assume my RHP double play combo of Baker-Henderson missed out on getting to a lot of grounders