Marlins working on a Record

by craig on May 7, 2007 6:55 AM EDT in News and Rumors

In case you haven't noticed the Marlins are striking out a bit.

The ''whiff'' count now numbers 263.

That's how many times the Marlins have struck out this season, keeping them on pace to challenge the major-league record of 1,399 set by the 2001 Milwaukee Brewers.

If the Marlins maintain their current rate, they will wind up with 1,420 K's.

While that is true, the Marlins are also leading the NL in Runs, Triples, RBI and OPS. They are tied for second in Doubles and are fourth in Home Runs. The guys are probably somewhat overly aggressive but they are putting up the numbers and unfortunately strikeouts is one of them. But it is not like they are anemic at the plate.

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15 more K's on Monday night

I hadn't really noticed how the strikeouts were piling up until now. I agree that it's not a huge concern as long as the Marlins offense continues being productive in other stats like OPS. But the team needs to take steps to address this. Fifteen more strikeouts last night ... that's a lot of whiffs!

On a totally unrelated note, I'd like to hear from someone who watched last night's game about the dreaded Jorge Julio. Stats over 2 innings looked good. Obviously, those were 2 meaningless innings. But still ... how did he look on the mound?

by mhirsch on May 8, 2007 1:02 PM EDT reply actions

Julio looked okay

The interesting thing was that he recorded all of his outs on breaking balls and besides the 2 strikeouts, the rest were ground balls.

I suppose it is good news the Dodgers didn't elevate his pitches, but I'm not sure that relying on his breaking stuff to be an out pitch will be a positive long term situation.

That is my opinion, other may vary.

by craig on May 9, 2007 8:02 AM EDT up reply actions

I read once somewhere...

I read once somewhere (yeah, I know that's vague) that even though strike-outs are bad individually, teams that strike out a lot tend to be high run producing teams. I remember thinking that was odd when I read it, but I can understand it now. Just hitting the ball doesn't = runs, that is if you're hitting a lot of balls weakly for outs.

I think that this might be the article, but even if it's not it explains some of the reasoning behind my point, and seems to fit for our current fish.
http://www.thediamondangle.com/marasco/opan/kfile.html

Baseball > Med School

by fishfan24 on May 10, 2007 12:45 AM EDT reply actions