Ervin Santana Has Figured It Out

by Jeff Sullivan on Jul 9, 2009 12:29 AM PDT in Miscellaneous

His average fastball tonight came in at 92.7mph, up from 91.2mph on the year. The Angels must be thrilled to see him making that kind of progress. At last, it seems that Ervin's heater may be on the way back to where it was a year ago when he came out of nowhere to dominate the league.

I'm just kidding. He's still fucked. Other average fastballs from the same game:

Eddie Guardado: 87.7 (up from 86.1)

Vicente Padilla: 93.6 (up from 91.8)

Jason Grilli: 91.1 (down from 92.3)

Jason Bulger: 94.7 (up from 93.4)

Kevin Jepsen: 96.3 (up from 95.1)

Rich Thompson: 92.4 (up from 91.9)

Matt Palmer: 89.3 (up from 88.6)

Darren O'Day: 86.1 (up from 84.7)

The only things we can take out of this are that PITCHf/x was reporting inflated velocities in LAnaheim tonight, and that Jason Grilli might be hurt. As far as Santana's concerned, he's still in a whole heap of trouble.

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Ha

That was wonderful.

by CKremer on Jul 9, 2009 12:33 AM PDT reply actions

Who?

Derosa.

by vivaelpujols on Jul 9, 2009 2:53 AM PDT up reply actions

That guy who literally owns us

by OlSalty on Jul 9, 2009 2:55 AM PDT up reply actions

Hiroshi Yamauchi*

50!

by joof on Jul 9, 2009 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions

You know we killed him last time we faced him, right?

by seattlebruin on Jul 9, 2009 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions

And look where that got us...

I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.

by EnglishMariner on Jul 9, 2009 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions

Is there a way to look at his location and movement?

I bet that has just as much to do with it as his velocity, or am I off base?

Racer X.

by InSpokane on Jul 9, 2009 8:18 AM PDT reply actions

Fangraphs has PITCHf/x game logs available on the player pages.

A significant loss in velocity is a much bigger red flag than location/movement on the injury front. Pitchers shouldn’t be losing velocity on their fastballs, and Santana has dropped 2-3 mph, meaning he is most likely injured. Location and movement are by nature much more volatile than velocity.

by Zwakamatsu on Jul 9, 2009 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions