Fantasy Baseball Notes: May 8, 2013

If you’re a frustrated Eric Hosmer owner like I am you will want to read my fantasy breakdown in my debut article on Eric Hosmer at Through the Fences.

I’m sure by now you’ve all heard about the botched call in the A’s game last night, but if you want to see it again here you go. Also if you want to see another #umpshow look what happened to Joe Maddon and in Houston last night. Luckily for Tampa Bay and Houston those blown calls didn’t effect the outcome of the game.

Mike Minor was pretty good, throwing 63 percent strikes while only allowing four hits, three walks and seven strikeouts. He did run into trouble in the second inning with the bases loaded with zero outs. However, he was helped out by an amazing throw by Evan Gattis to throw out the runner tagging from third base. The best stat I’m seeing with Minor is he’s not walking anyone; his walk rate so far is 4.6 percent while last year it was 7.7 percent last year.

evan-gattis-throws-out-runner-reds-may-8-2013I had a chance to watch Ricky Romero and Allen Webster implode. Of the two, Romero looked better, throwing quality strikes in bursts. The weirdest factoid about Romero’s start was of the seven batters he faced had three of them had 0-2 counts, which tells me suffered from bad luck because a couple of the hits he allowed a couple of weak hits. Webster was very sharp against the first batter he faced, throwing a lot of quality strikes and one really good changeup. However, after that he could not command any of his pitches and when he was able to throw strikes, they were right in the middle of plate. When the ball is thrown in that location, major league hitters will barrel up those pitches and that’s what happened last night.

Below is Webster’s pitch frequency heatmap.

allen-webster-may-8-2013-heatmap

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