Some Friday Night "Bullets"

Just some bullets for your late Friday night…

 

Watching MLB Now today, I noticed Brian Kenny say something about Carlos Gomez as contender for NL MVP.  I was amazed by this comment.  I knew that Carlos Gomez was having a breakout season but MVP-worthy? 

 

.301/.347/.545/ is the slash line, and like the Carlos Gomez of old, he still is not able to take a walk often. 

Carlos also has 17 HR with 59 RBI, and 27 SB.

 

Now digging a bit deeper…

 

His WAR this year is 5.7, a great total for a full season, and the highest of his career.  His previous high was 3.1 WAR. 

His OPS this year is .892.  Once again he needs to take more walks. 

DRS (Defensive Runs Saved) is an advanced sabermetric calculated by the Fielding Bible.  He has saved 26 runs with his glove this year, which is amazing.  He is by far having his best year with the glove. 

 

An article on beyondtheboxscore.com called Defining the ‘ace’ label recently interested me.  One of its main points,    that you cannot say there is an ace on every team.  Just because they are the #1 starter doesn’t mean they have ace-level skills.  An ace should pitch 200 innings, with around 200 strikeouts with a 2.80-3.20 ERA.  If your below 2.80 then you’re doing even better then a “usual ace”. 

 Thanks for reading these “bullets”.  I might do these every once in a while so I can cover several topics in one post.