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OFFNY Hangout Grand Counsel

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Considering that his ERA is over 4 in 3 out of the last 4 years, a 3.5 would be a sign of love from the baseball gods.

His ERA was league average last year, worse than that in 2014, better than average in 2012 and worse than average in 2011.

His 19 win season from 2010 can now be considered an outlier year and without that season he's been about a league average pitcher his career. Hopefully the offense pushes him over the middle and he can be a winning pitcher with about a 4.00 ERA, 15-10 would be optimistic but realistically so.

I'd take that in a heartbeat.

I would double down on it, and take 30-20 (4.00 ERA) out of Ubaldo and Gallardo combined.

I would triple up on it, and take 45-30 (4.00 ERA) out of Jimenez, Gallardo, and Tillman combined.

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I did not see it, so ...... SOURCE: Roch Kubato

UBALDO JIMENEZ GARCIA O(vs. TWINS, 3/7) O[spring Training]

IP:. 3

H:o 1 (1 Single)

R:O 0

BB: 1

SO: 3

Pitches: 46 (30 Strikes, 16 Balls)

PITCHES BY INNING

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13 (91 Strikes, 41 Balls)

23 (13 Strikes, 10 Balls)

10 (81 Strikes, 21 Balls)

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I KNEW he'd get better!

The Grand Poobah of the Ubaldo Jimenez Fan Club :smile11::clap:

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UpstateNYfan Major Leaguer Rising Star

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ST has certainly changed. Grey pants squads, white pants squads. Veteran pitchers just getting work in at minor league camps. Not exposing them to hitters they will face face during the season. MiL pitchers up seeing how they do against ML hitters. ST team records may become a pretty unreliable predictor of the season.

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OFFNY Hangout Grand Counsel

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ST has certainly changed. Grey pants squads, white pants squads. Veteran pitchers just getting work in at minor league camps. Not exposing them to hitters they will face face during the season. MiL pitchers up seeing how they do against ML hitters. ST team records may become a pretty unreliable predictor of the season.

Good post.

Although some have pointed to a possible correlation between ST success and failure and regular season success or failure, I suspect that much of it is more coincidence than evidence of a bona-fide correlation.

That said, I do believe to be that the last 2 weeks of Spring Training does carry a bit more significance than the first 2 weeks, when starting pitchers don't go more than 2 innings in their first start, and 3 innings at most in their 2nd and 3rd starts.

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DrungoHazewood Hangout Grand Counsel

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Ubaldo's ERA by month as an Oriole, in integers (i.e. he had one month with an ERA in the 1.00s):

1: 1

2: 1

3: 7

4: 1

5: 1

6: 2

7: 2

8: 1

9: 1

10: 1

Ubaldo is like a box of chocolates without the key on the lid. You really have no idea what's coming. At least these last couple months have been that creamy caramel.

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I'm at a loss for words. He has done a 180. I was a vocal critic of Buck and the organization for putting $$ above results. DFA him. This crow sure does taste good. I'd give him the ball in the WC game, no doubt. All of a sudden we have 3 respectable starters. Who thought the offense would be the biggest concern before the season started?

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