Top Pitching Performance (counting): Casey Mulligan, 10.2 pRAA
Top Pitching Performance (rate): Casey Mulligan, 1.15 tRA
(There were some really terrible statistical performers on the Palm Beach team as Brett Zawacki, Arquimedes Nieto and Richard Castillo all racked up more than a full negative win relative to replacement.)
Top Hitting Performance (counting): Alex Castellanos, 28.5 bRAA
Top Hitting Performance (rate): Matt Carpenter, .410 wOBA & Alex Castellanos, .389 wOBA
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“Brett Zawacki, Arquimedes Nieto and Richard Castillo all racked up more than a full negative win relative to replacement.” Huh? The stats I’ve checked show Nieto with a 3.44 ERA, 1.22 WHIP for his time at PB. The ERA, at least, was above average for the league. He got lit up at Springfield, but are you sure he was below replacement at high-A (which was age appropriate for him, too)?
Correction, “better than” average for the league. I wish we could edit our own posts here…
As with the comment below, I had my baseline wrong. He was a full win below average which put him at replcaement level for his league. This would evaulate Nieto using tRA which is basically a DIPS based statistic like FIP with batted ball data.
This still isn’t adding up. According to MiLB.com, Nieto was in the top 10 qualifying (>0.8 IP/game played) pitchers in his league in WHIP, and #11 for ERA. I’m not sure what to make of “wins below average,” but his ERA was clearly better than average for the league by a considerable margin (in fact, so was the average for the whole PB staff). Are you saying that most of the pitchers in the FSL are below replacement level and don’t belong there? That’s the only way to reconcile these observations with pegging Nieto at replacement level.
Castillo, OTOH, stank.
Where does one get “WAR” for minor leaguers?
Cant say I really understand pRAA and bRAA but can Mulligan really lead the team in pRAA if it is a true counting stat with just 29.2 innings when someone like Thomas had a FIP under 3.00 and pitched more than a 100 innings?
I miss spoke — the pitching runs above average and batting runs above average (pRAA/bRAA) were the relative performance lines I was looking at. So, each player was compared to the average baseline. That would put a couple of them around replacement level for the league with Castillo still well below replacement level.
Thanks for catching that. The stats are coming from StatCorner.com