Comments on: Daily Farm Report 08/17/2011

By: tom s.

tom s. — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:36:27 +0000

look, it’s a park effect. it impacts a player’s game to a quantifiable extent. springfield has a 114 park factor on wOBA for lefties, and 106 for wOBA for righties. we don’t have to ignore success at springfield, just discount it properly. or just use wOBA* to control for park factors. springfield has a serious effect on wOBA, but not a magical one. jackson’s wOBA* is .338, with a wOBA+ of 98, which means he hits right about average for the league. for a shortstop, that’s very good.

By: RichardRich

RichardRich — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:52:06 +0000

Sorry Andrew this park and league makes everyone look like better hitters, Pham has a .925 OPS here vs a .708 career boosted by that big TL number and his OPS per level is as follows.

.664 in RK
.588 in LoA
.683 in A
.690 in HiA
.925 in AA

Its not the players fault they have to play here but stats have been getting inflated in Springfield since day one, just go to baseball-reference and look back over the last 7 years and note all the big numbers.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:58:16 +0000

And players are more than just there power numbers. Pham has improved his complete game and you can’t just write that off to the Hammonds Effect.

By: RichardRich

RichardRich — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:28:32 +0000

Tyler Greene took over the Memphis lead in errors from Matt Carpenter despite only playing in 49 games or 62 less than Matt.

By: RichardRich

RichardRich — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:24:35 +0000

Its the Springfield effect, basically every single guy we have sees a big boost in his power numbers once moving to the Texas League.

By: RCHIII

RCHIII — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:28:00 +0000

Well, I won’t speak for Boone. However, if it was me, if my choice is going to PB for what? Max. 3 starts? Vs. a chance at another ring with many of the guys I played with last year? I am going to opt for the chance at the ring.

That doesn’t even take into account that going to PB at this point in time is the equivalent of a 3 week roadtrip. At this point, I don’t think there is anything he could do at PB that would affect where he starts next year.

So, why you may be right, there are plenty of reasons to doubt it.

By: sadsushi

sadsushi — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:53:44 +0000

very impressive comeback by the riverbandits yesterday..they trailed 9-2 and came all the way back to win it

By: tenncardfan

tenncardfan — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:56:04 +0000

You had me excited for a moment when you showed JC playing “Kingston”. Kingston is about 30 min away from me. Kingsport is about 90 min or so. Unfortunately, they were playing Kingsport….

By: Red Blazer

Red Blazer — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:42:25 +0000

Don’t know…

but it seems like every game he gets a hit or two…

By: cariocacardinal

cariocacardinal — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:20:09 +0000

And my guess is Boone whiting would still rather be in PB!