|
May 17, 2008
 Plus our Statistical Definitions Who's Hot, via First InningThe Player Development SiteHomer Bailey (Louisville) 23 K in last 20 IP Lance Berkman (Houston) 4 HR and 3 2B in last 29 AB Jay Bruce (Louisville) 3 HR and 5 2B in last 23 AB Edwin Jackson (Tampa Bay) 1 run allowed in last 22 IP Joseph Koshansky (Colorado Springs) 12 RBI in last 25 AB Recent Comments at Ballhype
Or you can search by:
StubHub is where fans buy and sell Yankees Tickets, Red Sox Tickets, White Sox Tickets, Mets Tickets and all other baseball tickets. If you are looking for World Series Tickets, ALCS Tickets or NLCS Tickets, you can find them at StubHub! More hot selling tickets include: Cubs Tickets, Astros Tickets, Dodgers Tickets, Angels Tickets and Detroit Tigers Tickets. Onlineseats is the best stop for Red Sox Tickets, Chicago White Sox Tickets, World Series Tickets, Dodgers Tickets, Minnesota Twins Tickets, St Louis Cardinals tickets, Chicago Cubs Tickets and Detroit Tigers Tickets Gear up for baseball season with Chicago White Sox tickets and New York Yankees tickets. LA Angels tickets, Houston Astros tickets, and Atlanta Braves tickets are hot sellers! You can get Boston Red Sox tickets, San Diego Padres tickets or Chicago Cubs tickets for your favorite baseball fan. Coast to Coast Tickets has the best MLB tickets like Minnesota Twins tickets, LA Dodgers tickets, Milwaukee Brewers tickets, New York Met tickets and St. Louis Cardinals tickets. Let the TicketSpecialists help you locate Boston Red Sox Tickets, Cubs Tickets, New York Yankees and Mets Tickets, Texas Rangers Tickets, Angels Tickets, Orioles Tickets and many Other Baseball Tickets Monthly Archives
May, 2008
April, 2008 March, 2008 February, 2008 January, 2008 December, 2007 November, 2007 October, 2007 September, 2007 August, 2007 July, 2007 June, 2007 May, 2007 Got a question or comment for one of our writers? Send it in to our weekly mailbag. Or just contact the site administrator with your comments. 
All content on this site (including text, graphs, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a
Creative Commons
License.
|
Most Recent Posts
Saturday, May 03, 2008Player spotlight: Jeff ClementPosted by Derek Carty at 10:11amI thought with the recent call-up of Jeff Clement, it would be a good idea to put a mini-"Player Spotlight" on him. Those of you looking for help at catcher, the cavalry may have just arrived. NumbersYEAR AGE LEVEL LEAGUE AB CR BABIP LD% BB% AB/HR AB/XBH HR/FB OF FB% 2005 21 A MDW 113 78% 0.366 13% 10% 19 10 22% 30% 2006 22 AAA PCL 245 78% 0.314 20% 6% 61 18 8% 26% 2007 23 AAA PCL 455 81% 0.303 19% 12% 23 8 18% 30% 2008 24 AAA PCL 78 85% 0.426 --- 22% 16 6 --- --- Clement absolutely tore apart Triple-A this year. It was his third time around and it was in a sample of just 78 at-bats, but they were 78 marvelous ones. Even before this year, he was putting up pretty good contact rates for a catcher and doing a good amount of walking. This plate discipline should help him while adjusting to the majors. He puts up decent fly ball rates, and his HR/FB rates are quite good, as are his AB/XBH. Perhaps the primary reason for concern is his 2006 season. This line looks out of place among the others in the power department. This worries me a little in that if Clement is the type of guy who takes a little longer to adjust to a level, he might struggle in the majors this year. We need to remember, though, that he was just 22 at the time and had less than 200 professional baseball at-bats at that point (11 in Low-A, 113 in Single-A, and 59 in Double-A). So what should we expect from Clement this year? Well, given an 80 percent contact rate, .300 BABIP, 30 percent outfield fly ball rate, and 15 percent HR/OF FB, Clement would hit .265 with 18 home runs in 500 at-bats. That should easily make him a top-10 catcher, and he certainly has the talent to do even better. Plus, he's been batting fifth. If that continues, he could have some nice RBI value as well. EligibilityHost Catcher eligible? ESPN No Yahoo! No FOX Yes CBS Yes Clement already has catcher eligibility in FOX and CBS leagues (or at least in the leagues I'm in, which I believe are standard setups). He needs five games to be eligible in Yahoo! and 10 (I believe, please correct me if I'm wrong) in ESPN. Given the lackluster performances of Kenji Johjima, Jose Vidro and Ben Broussard this year, Clement should find plenty of playing time. (Johjima was just re-signed long-term, though, so the Mariners won't give up on him easily.) If he starts off relatively well, he could find himself starting every day, either as the DH (spelling Johjima on days off) or splitting time among three positions. What Yahoo! and ESPN leaguers are first concerned with, though, is his playing time as a catcher. He has already played in two games at catcher, as Johjima took a break. Johjima won't play every day, being a catcher, and the Mariners have already shown the willingness to play Clement as his backup. Playing on Kenji's days off should give Clement enough games to claim eligibility in Yahoo! leagues within maybe 10-14 days. ESPN leaguers (assuming the requirement is indeed 10 games), well, it really depends on your individual league and team's situation whether you should pick him up. Is he worth a No. 1 waiver claim? Depending on your current catcher situation, I would probably lean toward "yes." In other leagues where the eligibility limit is five games or where he is already eligible, he needs to be owned. If you have questions on which catchers he should be owned over, feel free to send me an e-mail. Derek Carty is a student in New Jersey who loves Fantasy Baseball. His articles can also be found at FOX Sports, and he'll be contributing content to Rotoworld in the coming season. He welcomes questions via e-mail. Next Post: Waiver Wire: National League (Week 5)>> <<Previous Post: Waiver Wire: American League (Week 5) For more cutting-edge fantasy baseball coverage, sign up for Rotoworld's premium service | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
