Unhittable

by ~ March 7th, 2009 at 11:11 am

Graph borrowed from Beyond the Boxscore.

I know I’ve brought up Stephen Strasburg’s mechanics as a point of concern several times over the last few months, but he truly is an undeniable talent (as if you weren’t already aware).

It’s still only March, so Strasburg’s K% has plenty of time to level out a bit, but in his first three starts he’s struck out 11, 16 and 18 hitters.  The guy is out of this world.

(In case you’re wondering, as a Junior he would have been in the Prior-Price-Lincecum-Matusz range on this graph)

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  • http://bleedingblueandteal.com Dustin Shires

    Since there’s no possibly way to determine the probability of injury because of “mechanical flaws”, this is just another reason to draft for production/top talent..

    Please, please…FALL TO SEATTLE

  • http://bleedingblueandteal.com Jon Shields

    ^Sounds like you read this.

    ;)

    Sure, there’s no way of predicting injuries, but you can come up with better odds after studying mechanics. All said, I’ve never said I’d pass on Strasburg because of his mechanics. He is someone that you must take a chance on, even if his mechanics were worse than they are.

  • http://bleedingblueandteal.com Dustin Shires

    You can’t predict odds.. All you can say is, “This dude might get hurt.”
    After that, it’s a crap-shoot.

    And yeah, fangraphs is definitely a daily read haha

  • Slurve

    And the Yankee fans in the comments sections are saying he’ll fall to the Yanks of course because He’ll ask for 30 million…

  • http://bleedingblueandteal.com Dustin Shires

    That’s not exactly what they are saying.
    A lot of those fans thought that the cheap Nats, Pirates, and Padres were picking at the top. They realized the small market teams picking, and thought that a good strategy for Boras to get a good sum of money would be to raise the money demand, knowing that the smaller teams wouldn’t pay it.
    Honestly, there’s some genius to it, but there’s no way it would work…