Warning: with the exception of a few players, the results are not pretty.
After yesterday’s “Fire Sandy” storm on Twitter, I was curious as to the track record of a lot of the players in the bullpen, not just the ones he acquired, and how they are doing this year compared to last year. With the exception of a few performances, a good number of players are way, way off not only their recent year data, but their career data.
The Bad and Ugly:
Ramon Ramirez
2012: 4.58 ERA, 1.576 WHIP
2011: 2.62 ERA, 1.165 WHIP
Career: 3.30 ERA, 1.273 WHIP
Frank Francisco
2012: 4.97 ERA, 1.586 WHIP
2011: 3.55 ERA, 1.322 WHIP
Career: 3.82 ERA, 1.314 WHIP
Pedro Beato
2012: 10.38 ERA, 1.615 WHIP
2011: 4.30 ERA, 1.284
(Small Sample Size Alert for Beato)
Miguel Batista
2012: 4.82 ERA, 1.800 WHIP
2011: 3.60 ERA, 1.367 WHIP
Career: 4.49 ERA, 1.494 WHIP
Manny Acosta
2012: 11.86 ERA, 2.273 WHIP
2011: 3.45 ERA, 1.383 WHIP
Career: 4.24 ERA, 1.473
The Good and Promising:
Bobby Parnell
2012: 3.10 ERA, 1.279 WHIP
2011: 3.64 ERA, 1.466 WHIP
Career: 4.10 ERA, 1.489 WHIP
Jon Rauch
2012: 3.63 ERA, 1.096 WHIP
2011: 4.85 ERA, 1.346 WHIP
Career: 3.81 ERA, 1.241 WHIP
In addition to this, the Mets have had subpar performances from the following players making their major league debuts this season: Elvin Ramirez, Jeremy Hefner and Robert Carson (although Carson was only given 3.0 innings of work)
The first item that jumps at me from the above data that any Mets fan jumping on Rauch’s case needs to get off. He is playing a lot better than he projected to play at the beginning of the season, same for Parnell (except for recently).
I maintain there was no way for Sandy Alderson, or any legitimate scout to predict how bad Ramirez/Beato/Acosta would have been this summer vs their old performances. Acosta has had a good turn in the minors, so hopefully he brings it back but Ramon and Pedro have underperformed. Maybe later I’ll redo this article with Baseball Prospectus Projections.
