Ubaldo Jimenez Cleveland Indians
Age: 28 (January 22, 1984) | 6' 4" | 200lbs. | Throws: Right P-32
Tm Lg Year W L SV G GS IP H HR BB SO ERA WHIP Rtg K/9 K/W BABIP G/L/F % $4x4 $5x5
COL NL 2008 12 12 0 34 34 198.2 182 11 103 172 3.99 1.43 1.26 7.8 1.7 .306 n/a 7 10
COL NL 2009 15 12 0 33 33 218.0 183 13 85 198 3.47 1.23 1.12 8.2 2.3 .290 n/a 21 20
COL NL 2010 19 8 0 33 33 221.1 164 10 92 214 2.89 1.16 1.02 8.7 2.3 .273 n/a 30 26
COL/CLE AL 2011 10 13 0 32 32 188.0 186 17 78 180 4.69 1.40 1.33 8.6 2.3 .326 47/20/33 -2 5
CLE AL 2012 4 3 0 8 8 46.0 46 6 32 28 5.09 1.70 1.54 5.5 0.9 .282 40/22/38 -3 -1
Career 7yrs 64 52 0 157 156 961.2 836 68 430 863 3.83 1.32 1.20 8.1 2.0 .293

17 comments  
PK 5x5:
$14 
MF 5x5:
$16 
AP 4x4:
$11
MC9
7 days ago
He stopped juicing?
EugeneFreed
7 days ago
He absolutely stinks. How could he be the first successful pitcher year after year in Colorado history and then turn into such garbage during what should be the beginning of his peak?
EugeneFreed
Apr 26
Has anyone who watched him in Colorado watched him this year? His Ks are way down. Some of that is NL, but you only face the pitcher 1/10 of the time (less than 1/9 due to pinch hitters and facing the bottom of the order less often).

Has he lost velocity? Did he really have more movement in Denver with thin air? What's the deal?

I recognize it's a small sample size, but he wasn't good in Cleveland last year either.
Rotoman
Apr 9
The number at the bottom of reserve list is the order the players are taken in each round.
Alex
Apr 9
I see that Peter has now listed the reserve rounds. The order of slection (same for each round): bags, nova, hackers, nabobs, tooners, bb guns, palukas, veecks, bad k, jerrys, moose, peppers.
Rotoman
Apr 9
Curiously, in American Dream League I spent $59 for pitching, and changed up my usual strategy by not buying an achor and instead buying saves. We share some names, NeauxB:

Arrieta 2, Drabek 2, Milone 7, Paulino 1, Doubront 3, Smyly 3, Brett Anderson 3, Peralta 6, Broxton 11, Santos 23. Arrieta was a keeper.

We went to 10 pitchers / 14 hitters this year. I took Mendoza Marquis, Teaford, Howell, Tillman and Nick Jones on reserve.

You can see the sheet here: http://tinyurl.com/czvsjyd

Keepers aren't marked, I'm afraid, and I haven't listed the reserves yet.
NeauxBrainr
Apr 9
Pitching went for some high prices in the Plain Wheeler Dealer League (5x5), but I spent the least amount ever, buying early and very late, for a total of $69 on an all-or-mostly-all starting staff. Felix (34), Ubaldo (17), Doubrant (4), Milone (4), Arietta (3 keeper), Harrison (3 keeper), Matusz(1), Braden (1), Iwakuma (1), Smyly (1). BTW, we switched to 13 hitters/10 pitchers three years ago.
MikeG
Apr 9
Yes, that was my point. Absolutely the sample size is too small. U-Ball is either going to not allow so many fly balls or there's going to be some normalization and the balls are going to start leaving the park. Or he's going to start striking out more batters. You are right that in one game a pitcher can be quite successful using this road map but he's not going to be successful doing it over the course of an entire season. I didn't bring up xFIP to say that U-Ball's going to pitch to a 5.62 ERA this year but rather to point out the opposite...that he's not going to put up a 2.57 ERA the way he pitched his first time out. Unless he's very, very, very, very lucky.
EugeneFreed
Apr 8
I like xFIP after the all-star break. But before, I see it as a major sample size problem. It starts getting useful after about 10 starts. The whole idea is that in a specific game a pitcher can spread out walks and HR and not K people. But over the long-run the data clumps enough to cause runs and big innings. It may not happen in one game or two or three, but over a lot it proves to normalize. In one game almost anything can happen and it's not indicative of skill.
MikeG
Apr 7
Yes, but Morrow doesn't have the big bright red flashing warning lights next to his 2011 that U-Ball does.

He also didn't put up a 0.5 G/F today.
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