Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Ben Sheets Is Amazing

I didn't actually think it was possible to give up ten runs without recording an out. I sort of figured that if you put me in a a baseball game to pitch, (even a regular season baseball game), that while my 50 mph fastball would get absolutely hammered, I would probably record an out or two just by random chance. Maybe I was just underrating major league players, but certainly Ben Sheets (even a shell of Ben Sheets) should have gotten at least one out, right?

What are the odds of that?

11 comments:

ahren said...

he's probably hurt. he got shelled last outing too.

Chris said...

Ben Sheets hurt??? that is ridiculous.

PaulNoonan said...

He probably is hurt, but giving up 10 runs without recording an out is still pretty impressive.

Eric said...

At what point does the failure pass from Ben Sheets to the manager for leaving him in?

Chris said...

Eric has a good point I am sure there are a lot of Tomato cans who could have done this but were pulled before they could really "get the party started".

tracker said...

In a mid-March exhibition game, there's no point in pulling him. He's there to throw pitches.

I knew this would go bad for the A's, though. Guys just don't bounce back a year after flexor tendon surgery with the same stuff they had before it.

My prediction: SHeets pitches about 30 innings this year, shuts it down, comes back next year as a closer.

Eric said...

Can Billy Bean really be 10 million wrong?

tracker said...

He's one of the last guys you'd expect to fail to properly vet a guy like Sheets.

Nick said...

Wow, I've never seen anyone get it that bad....that's just an incredible amount of bad luck (and bad pitching). I would think Manny Parra will do something similar at some point this year.

E.S.K. said...

It isn't a failure, it was a calculated risk. For $10m (that he had...look at the payroll) he had the opportunity to pick up a potential fantastic trade deadline flip should Sheets hold up for two months. If not all he is out is $10m, which is meaningless to the A's at this point. It's not like they were $10m away from contending.

It was essentially a $10m gamble for prospects.

tracker said...

It was a dumb $10m gamble. Show me a guy who's bounced back to form less than a year post-flexor tendon repair in the post-HGH era. Well-spent $10 mil on a starter could've helped this team contend in a 4-team division. Their staff was good last year, but always a starter or two short. Given what Marquis signed for, he, for one, would've made waaayyy more sense than Sheets.