Diamondbacks 4, Mets 5: Communal Recap Edition

All I really want from the Dbacks at this point in the season is to win games for Barry Enright. He’s become one of my favorite pitchers, and I hope he continues his success. I just wish that the Dbacks could actually support him.

As for Justin Upton, good for him! He needed that streak. He was sort of going through a slump, and this should really boost his confidence.

I said this the first I saw him pitch, he has excellent stuff. He’s going to be a very good starting pitcher. Let’s hope he stays healthy.

Note: The stats I use are from Fangraphs, which apparently do not have tonight’s stats in. Regardless, most of it should hold true.

Is he the real deal? He’s a legitimate pitcher at this point, yes. He’s not about to meltdown and turn into Russ Ortiz, but he’s getting a little bit lucky as it stands. Among starters with at least 29 innings pitched, he has the highest LOB% (unless you count Duensing at 87.8%, who was mostly a reliever) at 85.8%; runners get on base, but he manages to Houdini out of it each time, it appears.

Past that, he’s got some pretty good numbers in terms of uncontrollable peripherals (aside from the xFIP of 4.32 against his ERA of 2.73). His babip is .292, so we won’t see too much regression in that regard. His HR/FB is at about 8%, which isn’t too ridiculous, even if it’s a tad under league average. His flyball tendencies are a bit higher than preferred (GB/FB of just 0.8), and that’ll end up hurting in Chase, methinks. Regardless, he appears to be viable 3/4/5 starter for years to come, actually, and I can only hope that he does so. I’m not the greatest of statisticians, and I’ve only been using SABR stats since the beginning of this season, so anyone (see: Jdub) that wants to correct me, please do so. I’d love to get a better hold of it all. :)

FutureBacks ftw. Ciao.

to see Gutierriez walk the bases loaded and give up a sac fly to Beltran. That’s all I saw. :( With Reyes on 3rd, Upton knew he had no shot, so he just caught it and pocketed it.

DJ Carrasco’s line wasn’t pretty this evening, but how did he look?

he looked relatively tall, but not randy-tall.

Are you seeing anything different with Justin Upton during his streak?

yes. notice he’s been getting a hit in each game.

13 K’s for Arizona, including an 0-for-4 with four strikeouts by Reynolds. Are we concerned?

what concerns me is how you can count on the diamondbacks to be dominated by soft tossers that have struggled against other squads. no matter how many have been traded away thus far.

The trading deadline has now passed. What grade would you give the Diamondbacks

as much as i want to give them an “f” for salary dumping haren, i’ll give ‘em a “d”. the ejacks trade looks a possible winner, but i’m not impressed with the return on snyder (plus the fact they paid the pirates $3M, wtf?), and it was time for qualls (no matter the ptbnl).

Barry Enright

makes me think of rick reuschel and brandon webb, for some reason. the game fundamentals (tonight’s bunt and the cover of first on a laroche range(!!!) play) despite un-athletic appearance, and his initial promise when he’s not walking batters, though he wasn’t getting groundballs despite downward movement on the pitches.

Was at my best friend’s house and we were flipping back and forth between this game and the Rockies game. I was happy Augie got to play, despite his tough night offensively. At least he drew a walk too and scored.

It was great to see CarGo torch the Cubs with his walkoff HR plus he hit for the cycle then too. Pretty exciting finish.

I hope we can beat the Mets tomorrow!

I’m not against Saunders and the White Sox trade was good but they could have gotten another prospect (or higher prospects out of the Angels). The Snyder trade was kinda cool and made me laugh.

it seems that we can be beaten by the Mets.

(also, Jim, DBBP still has that virus message…)