Darrell Rasner has won his last two consecutive starts in fairly convincing fashion.  Here's a closer look at some of his seasonal stats so far:

And over his last three starts:

Here are some other, potentially interesting numbers (* denotes win/loss record in games where Rasner did not get a decision in):

A breakdown of runs scored and wins - losses (numbers in parentheses indicates results in games Rasner did not get a decision in):

A breakdown of runs allowed and wins - losses (numbers in parentheses indicates results in games Rasner did not get a decision in):

And a breakdown of record based on how long Rasner pitches into games(numbers in parentheses indicates results in games Rasner did not get a decision in):

So while it would seem that Rasner would win more games based on a quick glance at RA and RS, a closer look reveals that in 6 of the 15 games Rasner started this year, the offense scored 2 or fewer runs 6 times.  Since Rasner allows about 3.1 total runs per start, it makes sense that he has lost all 6 of those games.

Rasner and the Eagles are also undefeated when the offense scores 6 or more runs.

Here are a couple of graphs that I thought might be of some interest:

I see it as a positive sign that his H/9 and BB/9 have dropped while his K/9 has increased.  While it isn't shown here, his WHIP (season high of 2.11 down to 1.32) and BABIP (season high of .400 down to .299) have also dropped steadily over the course of the season.

All of this point to Rasner having, at the very least, a decent second-half -- he probably won't blow anyone away, but he should hold his own.  He should also be able to rack up a couple more wins if the Eagles' offense can score some more runs for him.

I've implemented a number of changes to the Home Run Tracker in the hopes to make it a little more useful.

Here are the changes:

• For now, you can no longer see a full view of the home runs -- there were a large number of pages and I doubt that most people actually looked past the first few pages anyway.
• The tracker is now broken down into team sections with a break down on batters that have hit homers, stadiums where batters have hit homers, pitcher that have allowed homers, and stadiums where pitchers have allowed homers.  For example, you can now click into Rakuten Eagles and see that the hitter have hit 53 homers and that 20 of them came at Kleenex Stadium.  You can also see that Satoshi Nagai has given up the most homers on the staff with 11 and that the staff as a whole has allowed 13 homers at Seibu Dome.
• You can still view homers by date by clicking on the dates once you drill down into the individual homer pages.
• You can also view homers by stadium (in general).

There are still plenty of changes I'd like to make, but for this is what I have for the time being.  And if anyone happens to have any ideas for what they'd like to see in the tracker, feel free to let me know by leaving a note in the comments.

Both the Home Run Tracker and the 100 Pitch Tracker have been updated through to July 11.

Both the Home Run Tracker and the 100 Pitch Tracker have been updated through to July 8.

Here are the charts for Norichika Aoki.

I have also created charts for Matt Murton and Craig Brazell.

NOTE: these stats are through to 7/7.

Central League OPS Leaders

Pacific League OPS Leaders

Central League WHIP Leaders

Pacific League WHIP Leaders

As per Joey's request, here are the charts for Matt Murton.

As I mentioned in my previous post for Craig Brazell, feel free to pass along requests for specific players.

NOTE: these stats are through to 7/6.

Just thought I'd present another way to look at Craig Brazell's stats so far this year.  If people find this helpful, I'll be more than happy to create more of these moving forward (and if you have a request for a particular player, feel free to ask).

NOTE: these stats are through to 7/4.

Both the Home Run Tracker and the 100 Pitch Tracker have been updated through to July 4.

Both the Home Run Tracker and the 100 Pitch Tracker have been updated through to July 1.