Stephen Randolph to return to US on 4th; no decision on 2011 season
by Gen on Oct.03, 2010 @ 4:40 am, under NPB
The Bay Stars announced on Saturday that Stephen Randolph will be returning to the States on the 4th. No word on whether or not the Bay Stars have any interest in re-signing Randolph to an extension.
October 3rd, 2010 on 11:58 am
Most of his losses aren’t his fault. He lost a lot of games because he got zero run support from his offense.
October 4th, 2010 on 3:26 am
Randolph struggled a bit in the beginning, but was definitely the victim of poor run support in July.
March / April: 6 G, 0-4, 5.57 ERA, 1.67 WHIP
May: 3 G, 0-2, 6.43 ERA, 1.71 WHIP
June: 1 G, 1-0, 1.50 ERA, 1.00 WHIP
July: 5 G, 1-3, 2.60 ERA, 1.01 WHIP
October 4th, 2010 on 8:41 am
Yeah he had something like a 17 inning scoreless streak over 2 games, neither of which he won. Kind of like Kaga for Baystars he was in the top 5 in ERA in the whole Central League but had a 3-10 record. If you put Randolph on a better team and he isnt hurt, he wins 10-15 games a year in Japan.
October 4th, 2010 on 12:54 pm
I wonder if he still wants to play in Japan. If he’s healthy, I also think he might be able to rack up double-digit wins on a team that can provide him with decent run support.
The one thing that might be of concern though is his BB/9. It was 5.6 last year and 5.1 this year. That’s a lot of walks. That partially explains his fairly high WHIP: 1.22 last year and 1.42 this year.
The other thing is the number of hits he has allowed. Last year he gave up just 33 hits in 55 innings; this year he gave up 77 in 91 innings. His BABIP was .235 and .279 respectively. While you can’t always make the blanket statement that extremely low BABIPs mean that pitchers are getting lucky, in general, a .300 BABIP is considered league average. Incidentally, the CL league average was .299 this year and the Bay Stars’ average was .315.
So the concern with Randolph would be, if he reverts to the average and continues to have a BB/9 in the 5 range, will he still be able to win games? I think we may have seen a partial answer to this question this year when his BABIP rose to .279 while his BB/9 stayed in the 5 range.
BTW: that’s a 5.4 H/9 in last year and a 7.6 H/9 this year.