Dodgers of the Decade: Right-Handed Reliever
January 7, 2010 at 8:15 am | Posted in Duaner Sanchez, Giovanni Carerra, Guillermo Mota, Matt Herges, Paul Quantrill, Ramon Troncoso | 12 CommentsHong-Chih Kuo with 57%, Joe Beimel with 43%. And one smart-ass who voted for Tom Martin!
Dodgers of the Decade team:
C: Russell Martin (68%)
1B: James Loney (62%)
2B: Jeff Kent (88%)
3B: Adrian Beltre (80%)
SS: Rafael Furcal (87%)
LF: Gary Sheffield (62%)
CF: Matt Kemp (94%)
RF: Shawn Green (79%)
LH starter: Clayton Kershaw (56%)
RH starter: Kevin Brown (42%)
LH reliever: Hong-Chih Kuo (57%)
How about righty relievers? This isn’t exactly a top-shelf group either. Just wait until closer!
Right-Handed Reliever
Giovanni Carrera (429 games, 2001-02, 2004-06)
Dodger stats: 24-11, 3.32 ERA, 121 ERA+, .707 OPS against
WAR: 4.1
Guillermo Mota (232 games, 2002-04, 2009)
Dodger stats: 18-14, 2.79 ERA, 143 ERA+, .612 OPS against
WAR: 3.6
Paul Quantrill (175 games, 2002-03)
Dodger stats: 7-9, 2.22 ERA, 176 ERA+, .620 OPS against
WAR: 3.4
Duaner Sanchez (146 games, 2004-05)
Dodger stats: 7-8, 3.56 ERA, 115 ERA+, .734 OPS against
WAR: 1.1
Matt Herges (134 games, 2000-01)
Dodger stats: 20-11, 3.30 ERA, 127 ERA+, .704 OPS against
WAR: 3.5
Ramon Troncoso (105 games, 2008-09)
Dodger stats: 6-5, 3.21 ERA, 125 ERA+, .688 OPS against
WAR: 1.1
Top three seasons
2.8 WAR Mota, 2003
2.4 WAR Quantrill, 2003
1.9 WAR Mota, 2004
In retrospect, that’s not really a great group. Is Giovanni Carrera really the best Dodger righty reliever of the decade? Can we really vote for Guillermo Mota after his steroid suspension and how lousy he was for much of his 2009 return?
Gotta pick someone, I suppose: who’s your righty reliever?
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Am I to assume that “Closer” is a position unto itself?
Comment by Wes— January 7, 2010 #
I think that Broxton should have been in this group considering that he has only been closer the last season in a half and the righty out the bullpen the three years before that.
Comment by Mud— January 7, 2010 #
Maybe, but he qualifies for closer under the “20 saves or more rule”.
Comment by Mike Scioscia's tragic illness— January 7, 2010 #
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dammit, i see that mota’s ahead of quantrill, I think relievers is the one prime example where W-L are extremely misleading and of course the outsized W-L makes Mota a “better” reliever, at least by WAR, than Quantrill when we ALL know that the flaming canadian is the better pitcher! Though I’m surprised he only played for the Dodgers for 3 years.
Comment by Greg— January 7, 2010 #
I went with Quantrill, the tipper being we got Blake DeWitt with the Yankees draft pick after they signed Paul.
Comment by Babe Herman— January 7, 2010 #
Sir, your unfortunate comment,
“Is Giovanni Carrera really the best Dodger righty reliever of the decade?”
has certainly warped the vote on this position. Geo was a solid guy in the pen for us for five seasons. During that time he had only eleven losses, Quantrill had nine in only two years, and Mota fourteen in three. To me it is losses that one should judge relief pitcher on, not wins, not even ERA, not strikeouts, but did they give the game away.
Comment by Logan— January 7, 2010 #
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