Comments on: What Are The Orioles Thinking? http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2006/11/what-are-the-orioles-thinking/ Economic Thinking about Baseball Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:16:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2006/11/what-are-the-orioles-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-17532 David Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:11:33 +0000 http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2006/11/what-are-the-orioles-thinking/#comment-17532 You don't think that they read your article on the Mazzone effect and saw that his impact on relievers was bigger than on starters? Based on what I saw from when he was a Dodger, Baez will get a huge boost from Leo because he'll probably stop throwing fastballs on two-strike counts. If you look at his splits from last year, he was less than swift on 0-2. Also, Baltimore figures that Bedard, Cabrera and Loewen are their young core that will be there for a while, and with Wright and Benson, they figure the rotation is filled out. Looking at the monthly splits, you see particularly with Cabrera that the Mazzone effect kicked in around the second half of the season. You don’t think that they read your article on the Mazzone effect and saw that his impact on relievers was bigger than on starters?

Based on what I saw from when he was a Dodger, Baez will get a huge boost from Leo because he’ll probably stop throwing fastballs on two-strike counts. If you look at his splits from last year, he was less than swift on 0-2.

Also, Baltimore figures that Bedard, Cabrera and Loewen are their young core that will be there for a while, and with Wright and Benson, they figure the rotation is filled out. Looking at the monthly splits, you see particularly with Cabrera that the Mazzone effect kicked in around the second half of the season.

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