MLB Daily Notes - June 14
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Was in the car from 6am to 5pm yesterday, so we didn’t get a daily notes out. But it’s all back to normal now. I’m ready to fire up the podcasts again and do some more articles as we get into the thick of things here.
So I missed the morning after Jacob Misiorowski’s start. You’ve already seen it, I’m sure. It’s the #1 outing of the season on the start grades sheet.
That just looks at the stats shown there and puts them together to get a grade and a rank. But if you want the raw box score numbers, it was the best start of the year by far in that regard too:
Probably the craziest thing is this:
He began the year averaging 98-99 on the fastball. Now he’s averaging 100-102… And that’s not even the effective velo which accounts for his elite extension. It’s just silly stuff. Here’s every SP to have hit 100 this year:
His max is now 3.5 miles per hour higher than anybody else.
I spend a few minutes of my 13 hours in the car yesterday thinking about how many pitchers would have to throw this hard before they moved the mound back? If we ever get to the point where 25% of the league’s pitchers can hit 104-105, they’d have to do something, right? Pitchers are getting too good.
I think there’s a compelling case to trade Misiorowski in redraft leagues. It would be a bet on him getting hurt. Obviously, the league isn’t going to start hitting him. I don’t think it’s even possible to hit a guy throwing this hard. But how long can a guy throw this hard for without having some trouble? He also threw just 130 innings last year, so you’re probably not grabbing 180+ from him especially since they’ll want to make absolutely sure he has plenty of bullets left for the playoffs when the Brewers inevitably win the division again.
Enough about Misiorowski! Other brilliant outings from the last two days:
Yamamoto: 8.1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 7 K, 0 BB
Bryce Miller: 8 IP, 4 H, 2 Er, 7 K, 0 BB
Tanner Bibee: 7 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 8 K, 2 BB
Mike Soroka: 7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 7 K, 0 BB
Sonny Gray: 6 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 7 K, 0 BB
Sandy Alcantara: 8 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 7 K, 1 BB
Kevin Gausman: 7 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 7 K, 2 BB
There’s not much to add about any of those names. Yamamoto’s a stud, Miller looks like a stud, Gausman’s pretty studly most of the time and tends to get better as we get deeper into the year. The rest of those guys go up-and-down.
It’s always funny to see someone getting absolutely trucked. That happened a few times:
Luinder Avila: 0.2 IP, 5 H, 8 ER, 0 K, 3 BB
That was the Friday game where Yordan Alvarez hit two homers in the first inning.
Tatsuya Imai: 0.2 IP, 4 H, 5 ER, 1 K, 1 BB
Imai was on the other side of that. There were 14 runs scored in the first inning.
I kinda thought Imai had something going, but I take all of that back. He has a 24% K% and a 15% BB% now.
Zack Littell: 1.2 IP, 4 H, 5 ER, 0 K, 1 BB
After a few decent outings, Littell got back to doing what he should be doing.
Spencer Strider: 3 IP, 6 H, 7 ER, 3 K, 1 BB
He got hit around by the Mets and now goes to the IL.
Roki Sasaki: 4.1 IP, 7 H, 7 ER, 4 K, 3 BB
This one hurt me bad. He threw more balls than strikes and got hit really hard. But his velo and Stuff+ stayed way up, so I’m willing to keep starting him and just chalk this up to being one bad outing.
Like half of the pitchers who scored negative fantasy points the last two days were started by me on my home league team.
I put a new tab on the MLB & MiLB Stats Dashboard (v8) with start summaries, so you can go back and see every start for the last six seasons. Here are the worst starts:
Pretty incredible work to give up 14 hits and 11 runs before getting pulled.