Saturday, May 2, 2009

The Statisticians Nightmare Awards Are In

Well, we know who is up for the major awards, but how about the lesser awards or the "SNA's". Some of these awards are with great distinction and some, well let's just say the burger joint is hiring.

Statisticians Frustrated Pitching Award: And the Award goes to: Horacio Pizzaro with his 9-18 record and 4 complete games.

Statisticians Loser Award: Oklahoma City Kevin Durants starting pitching staff.

Statisticians Iron Pitching Award: Carlos Espinoza with a 6-19 record while pitching 228 innings.

Statisticians Busy Award: Carlos Espinoza giving up 292 hits amongst other not so pitcher like stats that kept them real busy.

Statisticians Tired Twirl Award: Carlos Espinoza wins a third award by giving up a record setting 70 round trippers.

Statisticians Ball Four Award: It was a tough call between the OKC starters and Olmedo Mercedes but the award goes to the OKC starting rotation.

Statisticians Bruiser Award: Don Bell by giving out 16 black and blue marks.

Statisticians Duck Award: Jay DeHaan with 14 wild pitches.

Statisticians You Can't Do that Pitching Award: Not awarded as there were 16 pitchers that had only 2 balks.

Statisticians Iron Hitter Award: Steven Matheson with 659 AB's and a .269 Average.

Statisticians Theftless Award: Heinie Watkins for getting caught 18 times stealing in 22 attempts.

Statisticians Strike Three Award: Rafael Almanzar wins his the award with 168 strike outs.

Statisticians Bruised Award: Bernie Lugo who failed to duck 13 times.

Statisticians Your Up With 1 Out Award: Hong-Jin Perez who hit into 42 game ending double plays.

Statisticians Ground Assault Award: Jim Wise with his 3.41 ratio but did manage to get a few in the air.

Statisticians Air Assault Award: Hector Ramirez who had a 0.75 ratio meaning he seldom hit it on the ground.

Statisticians Patience Award: Hong-Jin Perez who saw 3.96 pitches per plate appearance.

Statisticians Be A Stick Award: Walter Burkett with 502 AB's and a .235 average in 162 games.

Statisticians Klutz Award: Travis Smith with 15 minus plays.

Statisticians Clumsy Award: Pascual Dotel with 41 errors.

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