The Syndicate

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Marlins pitching ace Jose Fernandez died in a boating accident yesterday.

Man, what a bummer.

Twenty-four years old and expecting his first child.

I was rooting for the Indians, but I'm going to have to pull for Houston now.

This will no doubt get buried in the snoozefest celebration taking up two threads, but I built a baseball model meant to analyze batter versus pitcher, and I made some major tweaks on it this morning that makes it hopefully more reliable.

Anyway, one of the things I got from it was that the Colorado Rockies, who are small favorites at home tonight against the Mets, will likely not perform well against the opposing starting pitcher. This is significant to me for obvious reasons if you are aware of my avocation: Coors Field is a great place for hitters, and most people know that, and the Rockies put up ten runs last night. I therefore expect them to be popular plays.

At any rate, I'm curious to see how the Rockies perform tonight. Mind you that my model only studies the starting pitcher, so it is not saying the Rockies won't win the game, only that they should struggle for the first five to seven innings- it doesn't preclude them from putting up ten runs against the opposing bullpen.

Curious to see how this plays out.

Well this sucks. It's hard to gather meaningful data when the outfielders are making costly errors and the pitcher wants to walk the guy before the opposing pitcher and then give up an RBI to the opposing pitcher himself.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 11:13 pm You brought this upon yourself, Charlie.

What did you model have to say about Lance Fucking Lynn tonight?

I didn't study Lynn. I fade pitchers against Boston. It burns me sometimes, but I don't care.

Lynn only had two strikeouts. That's not what I'm looking for in a pitcher.