Team Contact

Listening to Dave Cameron on the Fangraph podcast, he explains that contact % (fair or foul contact per swing) is a fairly accurate early season stat. What are the contact percentages for ttfc?

 Introducing team contact:

Michael Brantley 93.7% (2nd in MLB behind Ichiro)
Asdrubal Cabrera 88.2%
Casey Kotchman 87.1%
Jason Kipnis 85.8%



The interesting player on the team contact list is Kotchman. Add his contact numbers with his .159 BABIP, and you see reason to believe that he will improve.

Are we there yet?

Again Chief Wahoo should go.

Cleveland starters ala Spaghetti Western (work in progress)

I strike when the creative fires are hot. This may never happen. But I am working on a breakdown of Cleveland's 2012 starters using Sergio Leone films as my muse. (Inspired by Manny Acta's "little cowboy" reference to Josh Tomlin.)

Seriously?

Really, you want to see me get it wrong?  Go crawl through my archive.

Why would I link to my personal failures?  Screw you!

Sure, I believed that Matt LaPorta could be an average major leaguer.  The posts are there for all eternity. But link to them?  Do your own fucking searches.  

Don't look at me

Cleveland's starting pitching is going to be all right . . .