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Refreshment Index -- April 2006

Johnny Dickshot May 03 2006 10:35 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 03 2006 11:00 AM

Congratulations and ice cold suds to Tom Glavine, Duaner Sanchez and Carlos Beltran, category leaders in the Schaefer Refreshment Index for April 2006. The Schaefer Refreshment Index uses space age technology to correlate points to plate appearances and innings pitched. Glavine, the overall Schaefer POTG points leader in April, earned an impressive 0.546 Schaefer points per inning pitched to lead the Met starters. Duaner Sanchez’ pristine performance in relief — 10.02 points in just 11 appearances and 16 innings pitched, scored a team-best 0.626 to lead the Met firemen in refreshing goodness. Beltran, though missing a good chunk of the games in April, played like he meant it while he was active. He refreshed at .208, leading the Met hitters per plate appearance. Overall Schaefer offensive points leader Carlos Delgado edged David Wright by a hundreth of a percentage point, .179 to .178, to take second for the month. Here are the Schaefer Refreshment Index Leaders for April: Starting Pitcher Innings Pitched Schaefer Points Refreshment Average Tom Glavine 39.1 21.48 .546 Pedro Martinez 33.2 17.49 .519 Brian Bannister 28.0 12.69 .453 Steve Trachsel 26.2 10.14 .381 Victor Zambrano 14.0 0.42 .030 Reliever Innings Pitched Schaefer Points Refreshment Average Duaner Sanchez 16.0 10.02 .626 Billy Wagner 13.0 7.55 .581 Pedro Feliciano 6.0 3.30 .550 Aaron Heilman 13.2 5.94 .434 Darren Oliver 10.1 3.41 .330 Jorge Julio 11.2 2.27 .195 Batter Plate Appearances Schaefer Points Refreshment Average Carlos Beltran 57 11.85 .208 Carlos Delgado 110 19.70 .179 David Wright 106 18.85 .178 Xavier Nady 95 14.77 .155 Jose Reyes 112 13.49 .120 Paul LoDuca 82 9.52 .116

Edgy DC May 03 2006 10:41 AM

I think a Schaefer failing is seeing secondary penners beating closers because they are (1) less likely to perform in wins when other peeps are gobbling up points, and (2) have more room for redemptioon when they are imperfect.

Yancy Street Gang May 03 2006 10:45 AM

Johnny, it looks like you credited Victor Zambrano with Anderson Hernandez's points. About Sanchez and Wagner, I think there were a few games in April where I gave Duaner a higher score than Billy because the lead had widened by the time the Sandman entered. If Sanchez pitches a scoreless inning with a one-run lead, and Wagner closes with a scoreless inning and a three-run lead, I might tend to give Sanchez a higher score.

Frayed Knot May 03 2006 10:48 AM

Nothing too complicated about it if you ask me -- Sanchez has just been better than Wagner so far this year.

Johnny Dickshot May 03 2006 11:01 AM

We'll see how this goes the rest of the year. Thanks YSG -- just a typo and not a math error, fortunately.

Edgy DC May 03 2006 11:15 AM

]Nothing too complicated about it if you ask me -- Sanchez has just been better than Wagner so far this year. And Hernandez was better than Looper last year. I still think there's an advantage. Or more particularly a disadvantage to the stopper.

old original jb May 03 2006 12:32 PM

Edgy DC wrote: ]Nothing too complicated about it if you ask me -- Sanchez has just been better than Wagner so far this year. And Hernandez was better than Looper last year. I still think there's an advantage. Or more particularly a disadvantage to the stopper. Looper.