Lucas Giolito is one of the best pitching prospects in baseball. Baseball America dropped an 80 on his fastball, and he pairs it with a curve that grades as high as 70. Coming into the season he was a consensus Top 15 guy in all of baseball, and with the promotions we have already seen this season he is almost certainly a Top 10 guy now. He was the opposing pitcher facing the Myrtle Beach Pelicans yesterday.
While it is important to remember that Giolito is himself still a prospect and is still developing, it is generally interesting to see how young hitters fair when they face truly exceptional stuff. And in the case of some Pelicans, they did not fair too badly (those details are further down the page).
Also not fairing badly was the Pelican’s pitcher, Jen-Ho Tseng. In short, Tseng flatly out-pitched Giolito. The Game Score for each pitcher: Giolito 45, Tseng 74. Tseng has had some struggles this season, but games like this are what we saw from him very frequently last year. Hopefully out-dueling one of the best will serve as a spring board to the rest of his season.
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Curious about the pitching stat “Game Score” I referenced in the introduction? This is a Bill James calculated statistic for measuring the effectiveness of a pitcher in a particular start. It does not apply to relievers and is based purely on the results the pitcher achieved. To calculate it, we start with base score of 50 points. For every out the pitcher records, add 1 point. For every inning completed after the fourth inning, add 2 more points. Add 1 point for every strikeout. Then subtract 1 point for each walk given up, 2 points per hit allowed, 2 points for each unearned run allowed, and 4 points for each earned run allowed. In the case of Tseng’s game, that means we have the equation: 50 + 18 (one per out) + 4 (for innings after the fourth) + 6 (strikeouts) – 4 (two per hit) = 74. That is a pretty good score.
According to Wikipedia, the best game score ever earned in a nine inning game goes to none other than the Cubs’ Kerry Wood for The Twenty Strikeout Game, arguably the greatest game ever pitched. Wood that day posted a game score of 105. It may be a very long time before we see another game quite like that one, but we did not need a Bill James statistic to tell us that.
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NEWSLETTER
Lucas Giolito is one of the best pitching prospects in baseball. Baseball America dropped an 80 on his fastball, and he pairs it with a curve that grades as high as 70. Coming into the season he was a consensus Top 15 guy in all of baseball, and with the promotions we have already seen this season he is almost certainly a Top 10 guy now. He was the opposing pitcher facing the Myrtle Beach Pelicans yesterday.
