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September 18, 2006
Minor League Review, Part 2: Clinton LumberKings Pitchers
Click here for a discussion of the league and park. Very short version: The Midwest League is a very low run-scoring environment, but Clinton’s Alliant Everygy Field slightly favored hitters.
On the pitchers: Players are ranked by park-indexed Run Average (similar to Earned Run Average except all runs are included). From what I understand, RA or ERA isn’t a reliable method of rating pitchers in the lower minors, but I didn’t want just to rank the players alphabetically. As with OBP+, WHIP+ tends to have lower variance among pitchers than most indexes. The homers allowed index has a huge variance because homers are infrequent relative to walks, strikeouts, hits, etc. For example, Jose Marte allowed one homer in 67 innings, giving him an HR+ of 465. That’s fantastic, obviously, but just one more homer allowed would have dropped his HR+ to 232.
I also don’t want to present others’ work as my own, so if you’re looking for averages on balls in play, ground/fly ratios, and other splits, visit the incomparable minorleaguesplits.com.
Pitchers ranked by indexed Run Average. Does not include those with fewer than 40 innings.
| Player | G |
IP |
RA |
RA+ |
ERA |
ERA+ |
WHIP |
WHIP+ |
HRrate |
HRrate+ |
BBrate |
BBrate+ |
SOrate |
SOrate+ |
| Julian Cordero |
27 |
68.0 |
4.10 |
117 |
2.91 |
137 |
1.34 |
101 |
1.0% |
155 |
9% |
92 |
17% |
84 |
| Josh Giles |
28 |
46.3 |
4.27 |
112 |
3.88 |
103 |
1.27 |
107 |
2.6% |
63 |
8% |
108 |
24% |
118 |
| Jose Marte |
39 |
66.7 |
4.45 |
108 |
3.51 |
114 |
1.40 |
97 |
0.3% |
465 |
12% |
70 |
25% |
121 |
| Joey McLaughlin |
15 |
32.0 |
5.06 |
95 |
4.50 |
89 |
1.38 |
99 |
3.7% |
44 |
9% |
94 |
21% |
104 |
| Kevin Altman |
34 |
85.3 |
5.17 |
93 |
4.85 |
82 |
1.37 |
99 |
1.6% |
99 |
6% |
132 |
21% |
105 |
| J.B. Diaz |
36 |
74.0 |
5.23 |
92 |
4.26 |
94 |
1.50 |
91 |
1.5% |
106 |
9% |
97 |
13% |
61 |
| Omar Poveda |
26 |
149.3 |
5.54 |
86 |
4.88 |
82 |
1.37 |
99 |
1.9% |
86 |
6% |
143 |
21% |
102 |
| Juan Jimenez |
22 |
116.7 |
5.63 |
85 |
5.25 |
76 |
1.42 |
96 |
2.6% |
63 |
8% |
98 |
14% |
70 |
| Kyle Rogers |
22 |
104.0 |
5.88 |
81 |
4.67 |
86 |
1.42 |
96 |
1.3% |
123 |
13% |
62 |
19% |
93 |
| Jacob Rasner |
27 |
144.7 |
6.35 |
75 |
5.41 |
74 |
1.42 |
96 |
2.2% |
73 |
8% |
100 |
19% |
91 |
| Zachary Phillips |
28 |
142.0 |
6.72 |
71 |
5.96 |
67 |
1.72 |
79 |
0.8% |
212 |
10% |
82 |
19% |
94 |
| Juan C. Garcia |
24 |
43.0 |
8.58 |
56 |
6.28 |
64 |
1.72 |
79 |
2.5% |
66 |
11% |
73 |
18% |
89 |
| Gerry Oakes |
30 |
42.3 |
9.35 |
51 |
8.08 |
50 |
2.01 |
68 |
2.3% |
71 |
21% |
39 |
14% |
69 |
| TEAM TOTALS |
139 |
1,205.0 |
5.68 |
84 |
4.81 |
83 |
1.46 |
93 |
1.7% |
96 |
10% |
85 |
19% |
94 |
| Park-Adjusted League Average | - |
- |
4.79 |
- |
4.00 |
- |
1.36 |
- |
1.6% |
- |
8.3% |
- |
20.4% |
- |
Posted by Lucas at September 18, 2006 06:09 PM