LA Angels Thursday News Crash: Urias is Grass

The Angels scored ten runs in their three-game series loss to the Seattle Mariners. Here is the list of how many runs each Angel produced:

2.75 O’Hoppe
2.25 Drury
1.50 Phillips
1.00 Ghost Runner
1.00 Adams
0.50 Grichuk
0.25 Neto
0.25 Escobar
0.25 Moustakas
0.25 Schanuel

This is the second time this season Logan O’Hoppe has led the team in Actual Runs Produced. The first was in the opening series of the season against the Oakland A’s when he contributed to the plating of eight runs.

I like Moustakas, but he has been a limp run-producing biscuit for weeks now.

The ghost runner only had two at bats in this series, yet he contributed more than many of his real life Angel counterparts.

Here is the updated Actual Runs Allowed per Batters Faced for our Angel pitchers:

0.00 Diaz (20)
0.00 Daniel (13)
0.07 Joyce (28)
0.09 Bachman (77)
0.10 Silseth (205)
0.10 Rosenberg (84)
0.11 Canning (462)
0.11 Estevez (255)
0.11 Soriano (166)
0.12 Sandoval (616)
0.12 Detmers (596)
0.13 Anderson (605)
0.13 Wantz (123)
0.14 Loup (220)
0.16 Devenski (140)
0.17 Barria (349)
0.17 Herget (99)
0.18 Suarez (130)
0.18 Reyes (49)
0.18 Mederos (17)
0.19 Ingram (25)
0.21 Marte (23)

Congratulations go out to Kolton Ingram for not having the worst ARA/BF on the team any longer.

Here is how skewed ERA is. Although ARA/BF proves Griffin Canning and Carlos Estevez have been equally effective at not allowing runs to score this year, ERA falsely claims that Estevez (3.41) has been significantly better at this essential task than Canning has been (4.34).

In ARA/BF, for every run that scores, each base that scoring runner advanced is worth 0.25 runs allowed. But who gets credit for the 0.25 runs allowed for the batter who was intentionally walked and then later scores? Jose Suarez was on the mound when Nevin called for him to IBB Julio Rodriguez, but should Suarez be credited for allowing Rodriguez (who later scored) to reach first base?

I have been giving the pitcher full credit for allowing that IBB’d batter to advance to first base (when that batter later scored). But should the manager be given credit for that and the pitcher be given no credit?

The manager had no faith in the pitcher’s ability to get the IBB’d batter out, so it seems like the pitcher bears some responsibility. I’m wondering if the pitcher should split the credit for that batter reaching base and only get half of the 0.25 runs credited to his ARA/BF instead of the whole 0.25 runs.