I just dropped Jhonny Peralta this morning for John Danks. I figured my SPs are the weakest position of my team so I needed to roll the dice on Danks hoping he can turn it around. Although with this transaction, my bench for my batters is gone, (Manny is on my bench ) yet, I do feel that if i do pick up someone, all he will do is sit on the bench with the occasional spot start when a starter isn't playing since I do feel my bats are solid. I know having Clay Buchholz on my roster is not helping me at the moment but with the lack of a true, dominant ace on my roster, the possiblility of him being one in the future is keeping him on my team. I guess my dilemma is, should I pick up Rafael Furcal and hope he can turn his season around (hope has been the theme with my SPs as well which isn't good ) and if so, which SP should I drop?
C Mike Napoli 1B Albert Pujols 2B Ian Kinsler SS Asdrubal Cabrera 3B Aubrey Huff OF Shane Victorino, Nate McLouth, Justin Upton Util Ryan Ludwick Bn Manny Ramirez
SP Erik Bedard, Francisco Liriano RP Joe Nathan, Chad Qualls, Andrew Bailey Bn Scott Baker, Matt Garza, Jordan Zimmerman, Phil Hughes, Clay Buchholz, John Danks DL Troy Percival, Justin Duchscherer
Also, i know Brett Myers is gone til September but is it safe to drop Percival and stash Myers?
Last edited by killerbeez on Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I guess I won't have to worry about Peralta being available... he's just like David Ortiz
From Baseball Daily Digest:
Peralta’s Power Outage
by Craig Brown on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 3:10 pm EDT | Permanent Link Everyone knows about David Ortiz and the Great Power Outage of 2009. But a quick look at the home run tallies from this season shows he’s not the only one who can’t buy a home run. A similar power outage is underway in Cleveland where shortstop Jhonny Peralta has, like Ortiz, hit just a single home run this year. This is coming after a 2008 season where he hit 23 home runs - one off his career high - and 42 doubles.
Peralta has always trended more to the ground ball side of the batted ball equation. His career GB/FB ratio stands at 1.4. Aside from his first 300 plate appearances between 2003 and 2004 where his ratio was 1.8, he’s been fairly consistent in the 1.3 to 1.4 range. This year, however, he’s slipped back to the extreme ground ball tendencies he exhibited early in his career with a GB/FB ratio of 1.9.
The increase in ground balls is coming at the expense of both fly balls and line drives. In other words, he’s not making good contact. Compare his batted ball rates from last year when he hit 42 doubles and 23 home runs, to this season:
2008 20.2% LD, 43.6% GB, 36.2% FB
2009 16.5% LD, 54.3% GB, 29.1% FB
More ground balls don’t necessarily mean fewer base hits. But they most certainly mean less power. The result of Peralta’s worm-killing tendencies has been a steep decrease in ISO, from .197 last year, to his current rate of .070 this season. That’s quite a slide.
Peralta’s contact rates themselves haven’t changed all that much. At least not enough to raise a red flag. He’s making contact (either a foul or ball in play) on 76% of his swings, which is right in line with his career percentage. So it’s not the quantity of contact, it’s the quality of contact.
My new colleague at BDD, Zach Sanders, looked at Peralta’s teammate Kelly Shoppach and found a similar decrease in fly ball rate. My first thought was perhaps there’s a common organizational thread where for some bizarre reason the Indians are emphasizing basic contact at the expense of power. (Hey, crazier things have happened. I’m in Kansas City where a few years ago the organization decided that strikeouts were bad… For their pitchers.) Indians hitting coach, Derek Shelton is in his fifth season, so he’s been Peralta’s coach for most of his big league career. That also leads me to believe that there wasn’t some kind of crazy tinkering going on that sapped Peralta of his power.
The good news is, if anyone should know Peralta’s swing, it’s Shelton. The bad news is, this power outage has gone on for two full months. Peralta’s last extra base hit was a double against the Kansas City Royals back on May 21. That was 40 plate appearances ago. His only home run came on May 1, 110 plate appearances ago.
This isn’t a minor power outage… It’s a full scale blackout.
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by killerbeez » Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:54 pm 
) yet, I do feel that if i do pick up someone, all he will do is sit on the bench with the occasional spot start when a starter isn't playing since I do feel my bats are solid. I know having Clay Buchholz on my roster is not helping me at the moment but with the lack of a true, dominant ace on my roster, the possiblility of him being one in the future is keeping him on my team. I guess my dilemma is, should I pick up Rafael Furcal and hope he can turn his season around (hope has been the theme with my SPs as well which isn't good 
) and if so, which SP should I drop? 
