6/22 at Pirates

[NCRaven]

Their offensive WARs are pretty close.

McCutchen has an offensive WAR of 2.7.........Jones's is 2.1.

It's the defensive side that is really different.

McCutchen has a dWar of 1.4. Jones's is -1.6 .

On the surface that seems pretty harsh........saying that Jones has cost us about 1.5 games on defense compared to a replacement level CFer.....but that's what it says.

Their offensive WAR is actually pretty close: 2.1 for Jones, and 2.7 for McCutchen (if I'm remembering right from when I checked). But McCutchen has a 1.4 defensive WAR, while Jones's is negative.

So your analysis actually was pretty solid, based only on offense - they're similar but McCutchen has a slight edge, porbably because of walks.

This is another reason why I think current defensive metrics are inadequate at best and suck at worst. I will concede that a 20+ advantage in walks is significant. But any metric that has Jones as a below average defender (not saying he's great, but he is above average) is ridiculous.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Makes you long for Andino. Which is kinda sad.

You know what's sadder? I'm longing for Izturis.

[scOtt]

Jake's Elbow bone spur has him pushed back to the Cardinal series at the earliest.

I know he's had that for a long time, but I was disappointed when he didn't fix that early last offseason.

[slik1017]

Makes you long for Andino. Which is kinda sad.

I still would rather have andino on the bench

[NCRaven]

Their offensive WARs are pretty close.

McCutchen has an offensive WAR of 2.7.........Jones's is 2.1.

It's the defensive side that is really different.

McCutchen has a dWar of 1.4. Jones's is -1.6 .

On the surface that seems pretty harsh........saying that Jones has cost us about 1.5 games on defense compared to a replacement level CFer.....but that's what it says.

Britton is seriously the king of unearned runs. It feels like there is at minimum 1 on each of his starts...

Perhaps he shouldn't allow the 7-8-9 hitters to do whatever they want against him then. If he takes care of business no runs score. He has no excuse, IMO. Pitch better.

[Remember The Alomar]

We need to poison Blake's wine. FOR THE GOOD OF THE LAND. Either that or make him a kickass duke.

[nate22]

I still would rather have andino on the bench

Maybe we can put the actual "bench" at second base.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Maybe Davis can redeem himself here.

[HokieOs]

Maybe we can put the actual "bench" at second base.

Ha Ha... couldn't field any worse than Andino. Maybe we can get some kind of stationary V-shaped structure there and position it in a way where it can ricochet direct towards second or first on a groundball in that general direction.

[scOtt]

Final day for Crow? What'd I miss?

[pell021]

Every time we piss away outs at second base, I get more and more angry at Roberts for being an idiot and giving himself a concussion. Ugh!

[scOtt]

Home run cut!

[nate22]

Britton is batting way to low in the order.

[scOtt]

McCutchen is good.

[allsighs]

maybe Britton can give Pie a bit of hitting advice...