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The Minor League Daily Thread - 5/27
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death2redemptions
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Where's Eloy Jimenez's HR??? He promised he'd hit one for me.
Maybe he found out I wasn't really a kid dying of cancer.....
Maybe he found out I wasn't really a kid dying of cancer.....
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This kid really can't really put up decent strikeout numbers but he sure can go deep into games, prevent runs from scoring & avoids implosions.
Through his first 9 games of the season he has never given up more than 3 earned runs in a start & he's gone 7 IP or deeper in 4 of his last 5 starts with six straight starts of at least 6 IP. You look at his W/L record, ERA & WHIP and think, wow that guys a future ace! Then you see his strikeout rate & strikeout per walk ratio and think well, maybe more like an innings eater middle of the rotation guy.
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In the majors, no runs.
But when you reach the majors the competition becomes much tougher and if you don't have the ability to strike out batters when needed, those 7 IP, 2 ER games will become 4.1 IP, 4 ER games.
Just having great strikeout stuff doesn't make you an ace (poor command and you're just a bottom of the rotation starter or bullpen arm) but almost all the true aces of the game have a 8 K/9+ rate or higher (with 3 or more k's per walk). There are exceptions but generally those guys have elite BB/9 & HR/9 rates due to being groundball pitchers (Maddux, Glavine). After all, strikeouts, walks, home runs & hit batters are the only outcomes a pitcher can truly control on their own (without defense being involved).
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Eloy Jimenez - .336 avg/1.002 OPS
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Eloys!!!!!!!
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