Comments on: Padres to promote Andrew Cashner for Thursday start

By: bigleagues

bigleagues — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:26:42 +0000

For the same reasons that everyone knew that the likes of Hector Noesi - with the following Home/Road splits:

                                                    
I   Split W L W-L%  ERA GS   IP  H ER HR BB SO  WHIP
     Home 2 4 .333 3.20  6 39.1 28 14  5 13 24 1.042
     Away 0 5 .000 7.42  9 47.1 52 39 10 20 32 1.521

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original TableGenerated 6/27/2012. . . . would likely pitch satisfactorily in his very first career Start at Petco - which he did registering a Quality Start: 6IP, 7H, 2ER, 6K, 3BB OR, let's witness the Home/Road Splits of the three SP's who lead the Padre's in GS this year. Anthony Bass:

                                                 
I   Split W L W-L%  ERA GS   IP  H ER BB SO  WHIP
     Home 1 2 .333 3.40  7 42.1 38 16 16 35 1.276
     Away 1 5 .167 6.00  7 42.0 42 28 17 37 1.405

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original TableGenerated 6/27/2012. Clayton Richard:

                                                 
I   Split W L W-L%  ERA GS   IP  H ER BB SO  WHIP
     Home 3 3 .500 2.91  7 46.1 42 15 10 32 1.122
     Away 2 4 .333 4.88  8 51.2 57 28 17 26 1.432

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original TableGenerated 6/27/2012. Edinson Volquez:

                                                 
I   Split W L W-L%  ERA GS   IP  H ER BB SO  WHIP
     Home 2 4 .333 3.45 10 60.0 45 23 32 57 1.283
     Away 2 3 .400 4.46  6 34.1 32 17 22 23 1.573

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original TableGenerated 6/27/2012.

By: theawesomersfranchise

theawesomersfranchise — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:27:45 +0000

It’s just not the size of Petco but it’s positioning and the dense ocean air that roll in from the coast. Nasty place for fly ball hitters

By: riverace19

riverace19 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:15:55 +0000

Petco is one renovation away from being the Polo Grounds

By: tartan1

tartan1 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:54:30 +0000

Petco is an extreme pitchers’ park. It doesn’t matter if the pitcher is a legitimate stud, or a relative bum. That’s the territory. It can’t be disputed, pitching half the games in Petco helps the cumulative stats. I don’t think the author is caveating his stats; just saying that will his skills, pitching in Petco will no doubt improve his expected stats, from a fantasy standpoint.

By: micker716

micker716 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:51:22 +0000

My bad, more accurate statement would be two career MLB starts.

By: theawesomersfranchise

theawesomersfranchise — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:41:20 +0000

Been a starter his entire career until this year. But ya

By: micker716

micker716 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:29:07 +0000

Why does every post concerning a Padre pitcher’s ability have to be qualified by the fact that he pitches at Petco? We get it. It’s a big ballpark, however stating that a young pitcher with two career starts SHOULD post impressive numbers because half of those starts are at Petco is over the top. He’s a young pitcher that’s learning how to start. He has depended on throwing heat, now he needs to learn how to pitch through a line-up. He was supposed to spend 2012 in the bullpen as the 8th inning set-up guy and then get the benefit of a full spring training in 2013 to see if he could handle a starter’s role. Seven pitchers on the disabled list altered those plans. He’s been given three starts at AA. It’s going to be learning process, he’s probably going to take some lumps, big ballpark or not. Impressive numbers will probably be very subjective. I just hope the experience doesn’t ruin the kid.

By: ronswansonsdinner

ronswansonsdinner — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:08:26 +0000

So this is where Hyde from That 70′s Show ended up.