A Month-Long April Fool's Joke
May 04, 2010
Which is worse:
April 1, 1984 - Waking up to read that Marvin Gaye was killed by his own father. Then laughing because you thought it was a twisted April Fool's Day joke, and then realizing that it wasn't an April Fool's Day joke and that Marvin Gaye was, in fact, just killed by his own father.
OR
...OK, no matter what we put below, it won't be worse than that.
But still, a .215 OPS during the month of April is pretty bad.
Player School AB BB/K XBH/K OPS Erik Figueredo Hartford 46 0.00 0.00 0.215 Blake Seguin Jacksonville State 42 0.40 0.00 0.265 Keith Jennette Oregon State 41 0.40 0.10 0.271 Nick Wiggins UMES 60 0.18 0.09 0.274 Jonathan Ogden Mississippi State 49 0.15 0.00 0.341 Chris Blanchard Holy Cross 40 0.44 0.11 0.350 Kurt Lee Iowa 41 0.43 0.14 0.364 Ryan Bell Centenary 55 0.29 0.07 0.364 Eric Sim South Florida 45 0.25 0.00 0.396 Tommy Piacenza Davidson 46 0.31 0.15 0.407
We're going to do everybody a favor and refrain from adding strength-of-schedule adjustments to these numbers.
Player School IP HR/9 BB/9 K/9 Jeff Citero North Carolina Central 21.7 0.8 4.2 0.4 Brian Russell Davidson 15.0 1.2 6.0 1.2 Kevin Clark UMBC 15.0 0.0 4.2 1.2 Luc Faron Chicago State 15.3 0.0 8.8 1.2 Robert Ponce Prairie View A&M 15.7 0.6 4.6 1.2 James White III Marshall 14.0 1.3 2.6 1.3 Nick Opitz IUPU-Fort Wayne 24.0 3.0 1.5 1.5 Zac Salfer North Dakota 24.7 0.4 2.2 1.5 Brent Moore North Carolina A&T 26.0 0.4 2.8 1.7 Phillip Parcell McNeese State 21.7 0.4 3.3 1.7 Frank Adelman Belmont 16.3 2.2 7.2 1.7 Michael Cook Louisiana-Lafayette 14.0 0.6 2.6 1.9
Best of luck to these guys in May. After all, it's got to get better, doesn't it?