Tue, July 13

A look back
Since we are at the traditional half way point of the season I thought I would take a look at how Blue Jays pitchers have faired home vs away. For those that visit the site often, you will know that I use Game Scores a lot, which is what we will be using today. These numbers are only for pitchers with a minimum of 4 away or 4 home starts. Which is why David Bush isn't on here.

Away Starts (starts)
56 M. Batista (8)
55 T. Lilly (10)
47 R. Halladay (8)
42 J. Towers (4)
37 P. Hentgen (7)

Home Starts (starts)
54 R. Halladay (8)
51 J. Miller (6)
48 M. Batista (11)
46 T. Lilly (8)
45 P. Hentgen (8)
40 J. Towers (4)

Just a quick look at these Game Scores and you can see that Halladay is not having a good year at all. He is performing the best of all the starters at home with a GS of 54, but that isn't saying much considering that Miller is the only other one with a GS over 50. This isn't suprising if you look at their record and see how poorly they have played at home, yes there hitting has been off but so has the pitching.

Halladay's numbers are really off this year, and not just W/L or ERA, but OOBP, OSLG, Hits Allowed etc etc are all up. I don't know if he is hurt or just having an off year but he needs to get his shit together or the Blue Jays are going to be in trouble, not just this year but next year as well.
13 Jul 2004 by Rivux