Spring Training Tracker

[Magnus_CA]

Here's a name: Joel Piniero.

Here's a number: 1.44 ERA this spring.

Here's 2 reasons: 20K's : 4 Walks this spring.

Here's a better reason: Duncan has gotten him to trust throwing a sinker.

I'm giving Piniero a month on my team to see if any of this is real or not.

Too bad you are 4 pages too late...

I know this isn't an exciting name but Joel Piniero has been putting together a nice ST...

6 GS
3 W
0 L
25 IP
1.44 ERA
1.08 WHIP
20 K's
4 BB's

OK now, repeat after me...all hail Magnus, all hail Magnus,...you get the picture.

[Matthias]

Pineiro had a couple of nice starts last year and I think I picked him up once or twice for a spot start. I was a big fan when he came up with the Mariners, but he has been so bad last few years that it is tough to trust him.

I'm not giving him a huge leash, but I figure this is the time of the year to pick up a bunch of pitching could-be's. And the ones that show themselves as not-be's, I'll drop.

But I'm putting more emphasis on him inducing more GB's than his ERA over his innings thus far. There's at least a methodological reason why he's been doing so well so far, and may be more than simply small sample size.

Pineiro doing well so far.
4-0, 3.76, 1.37, 6K's, 6BB's, 26 1/3 IP with 3 of his 4 starts being a QS (and the other one being responsible for almost half of his ER's).

The K's are low but also a consequence of him pitching the sinker. In his start yesterday, 12 of his 20 recorded outs were for groundouts. As long as he keeps that up and the walks down, I'm keeping him on the squad.

[Ender]

6 strike outs in 4 appearances pretty much completely offsets any value he has other than the 4-0 and W-L can be really flukey in general. If I owned him I'd try to sell him to the last place in W team in my league and hope he falls for it.