Welcome to The Loogy Lounge, a new blog devoted to the often neglected middle relievers in baseball. To get the blog going, I’m including a brief link to an excellent article by Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated:
Towers’ philosophy is that relief performance tends to be fungible, and buying free agent relievers — who tend to be older and overworked by the time they get to the market — is the definition of buying a stock too high before the regression hits. Think Danys Baez, Arthur Rhodes, Kyle Farnsworth, Tom Gordon and Hector Carrasco.
“Free agent relief shopping is dangerous,” Towers says.
In just a seven-month span in 2006, Towers obtained relievers Cla Meredith, Doug Brocail, Heath Bell, Kevin Cameron and Justin Hampson at the combined talent cost of Jon Atkins, Ben Johnson and Doug Mirabelli. None of those five relievers he acquired earned more than $500,000 last season. And San Diego’s bullpen wound up with the best ERA in baseball (3.01).
What, did you come here looking for insight? Well, we’ll have that eventually. But Gnopple is late for dinner and in no mood to delve in the San Diego’s admittedly excellent and cheap bullpen.
Who is Gnopple? He’s the guy who brought you The Lenny DiNardo Blog.
What is Loogy? As you probably know, it stands for Lefty One Out Guy – a left-handed reliever that you bring in to get . . . one out. Anyway, we’ll be discussing right-handed pitchers as well, we just think the Loogy Lounge sounds cool.
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johnstevens // November 15, 2007 at 4:16 pm |
I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails about this: is the “G” in Gnopple silent?
gnopple // November 15, 2007 at 5:04 pm |
Yes. The “G” is silent. It is pronounced “nawp-ul.” Like Dopple in doppleganger. Is johnstevens pronounced johnst-evens? or the more practical, John-stevens?
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