03/28: YB Community Projection: Mike Myers
Posted by: James
Mike Myers - Reliever
Age: 36 Years Old (Turns 37 in June).
Three-Year History and splits:
Outlook: After holding the Yankees hitters to a .227 AVG and a 1.35 ERA (in 7.2 innings) over the last couple of years, the Yanks decided to add Mike Myers to their bullpen to the tune of $2.4 MILLION dollars...wait, wrong Mike Myers. Mike Myers is a LOOGY, no doubt about it. His sidearm motion is very effective on lefties but lets righties have a long look at what he's throwing, which is often junk. Mike's control was much better last year than it has been in years past and he did get a lot luckier on balls in play so we might see some regression in those areas. His main selling point is that for his career, he's held lefties to a .207 AVG (258 innings) while righties have tattooed him to a tune of .312 (199 innings). This hasn't exactly eased up with time either; over the last three years: .208/.278/.318/.595 vs. lefties and .331/.450/.509/.959 against righties. To beat the point to death, last year, righties put up a line even Joe DiMaggio would have envied: .385/.510/.641. The simple advice is don't pitch him against righties, but hey, that's practically impossible. Every manager (theoretically) will stagger their line-up and there will be lots of switching during the games to counter the relievers. Still, the pluses are many: Myers has one job and he does that as well as anyone, he doesn't give up many homeruns and has been working on ways to make himself less hittable to righties (we'll see about that one) and after last year's Buddy Groom/Wayne Franklin/Alan Embree adventure/fiasco, I think we can all turn to Mike and say, party on dude! Ahhh - someone stop me!
Please post your predictions for the following stat line in the comments section:
Age: 36 Years Old (Turns 37 in June).
Three-Year History and splits:
| SEASON | G | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | SO | W | L | SV | HD | BlSv | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 64 | 36.1 | 38 | 23 | 23 | 4 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5.70 |
| 2004 | 75 | 43.2 | 45 | 22 | 22 | 5 | 23 | 32 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | -- | 4.64 |
| 2005 | 65 | 37.1 | 30 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 13 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 3.13 |
Outlook: After holding the Yankees hitters to a .227 AVG and a 1.35 ERA (in 7.2 innings) over the last couple of years, the Yanks decided to add Mike Myers to their bullpen to the tune of $2.4 MILLION dollars...wait, wrong Mike Myers. Mike Myers is a LOOGY, no doubt about it. His sidearm motion is very effective on lefties but lets righties have a long look at what he's throwing, which is often junk. Mike's control was much better last year than it has been in years past and he did get a lot luckier on balls in play so we might see some regression in those areas. His main selling point is that for his career, he's held lefties to a .207 AVG (258 innings) while righties have tattooed him to a tune of .312 (199 innings). This hasn't exactly eased up with time either; over the last three years: .208/.278/.318/.595 vs. lefties and .331/.450/.509/.959 against righties. To beat the point to death, last year, righties put up a line even Joe DiMaggio would have envied: .385/.510/.641. The simple advice is don't pitch him against righties, but hey, that's practically impossible. Every manager (theoretically) will stagger their line-up and there will be lots of switching during the games to counter the relievers. Still, the pluses are many: Myers has one job and he does that as well as anyone, he doesn't give up many homeruns and has been working on ways to make himself less hittable to righties (we'll see about that one) and after last year's Buddy Groom/Wayne Franklin/Alan Embree adventure/fiasco, I think we can all turn to Mike and say, party on dude! Ahhh - someone stop me!
Please post your predictions for the following stat line in the comments section:
| G | Innings | W | L | BB | K | HD | SV | BlSv | ERA |
|---|
Kyle wrote:
Innings 39
W 2
L 2
BB 12
K 23
HD 8
SV 0
BlSv 0
ERA 2.89
I hope Torre realizes that this guy should not see a single rigthy. He is here to get Ortiz out 19 times. If he can do that he will be worth his salary