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Reviewing Edwin Jackson

Do this more Edwin. Seven innings, five strikeouts, one walk, zero homeruns allowed, 68.4% strikes, and 12 swinging strikes. The only bad thing about tonight appears to be his groundball/flyball ratio (7:10) otherwise, this was the perfect start. Let's take a look at it.

First up our standard velocity chart, simply to see how Jackson's velocity stood up over the course of the start.

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Jackson can light up the radar gun throughout a start, even nearing the end of his night he was blistering, touching 97.

Next up is the horizontal movement on Edwin's pitches. It's interesting to note that tonight Edwin's fastball broke in to righties less by about two inches. Remember that negative values in this category mean the pitch broke to the catcher's left, or inside to righties.

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However Edwin's slider had more movement "up" and away from righties as we can see below, this time negative values mean the ball breaks down more so than a ball thrown without spin.

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Interestingly Edwin only threw two changes. You should be able to identify what pitch types are what here on each chart, but the two change-ups really stick out. Outside of a fastball dominant start there's zero to complain about. We needed a nice outing and Edwin delivered. He also tipped his cap to the standing crowd. I've said a lot of bad things about his performances, most of it deserved only but only about his performances.

Edwin is a good person and I truly do hope he finds success, whether that comes here or elsewhere is beyond my control.

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EDWIN!!

I have always liked Edwin, mostly because he plays the drums, so it goes with out saying that it was a pleasure to listen to this start, and him get the win that will put us so close to a play-off berth.

by free hotdogs on Sep 19, 2008 11:49 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

he did amazing tonight

lets hope he keep this up to the cows come home or go do another tv ad

by Underdogs on Sep 20, 2008 12:01 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

His best start since the 4th of July

vs Kansas City, though it was another game where the Rays scored 11 runs. I thought Maddon should pull the plug on Edwin after the last start but he really shut up his critics like myself for one night.

by sofladude77 on Sep 20, 2008 1:13 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

If he could just get more consistent

but thats like asking Longoria to not be awesome. We love him though, wouldn’t be too shocked if Rays give him the #5 spot and put Sonny in the pen, which would be a bad move.

by joeybw on Sep 20, 2008 11:51 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

i could see them trading sonny instead of edwin though

sonny’s trade value may never be higher than this year and i rather keep edwin to see how he does next year, and if he sucks then we got wade davis ready in the minors

"It felt good to be out there, I wasn't nervous anymore, and I felt like I belonged out there." -David Price after his ML debut.

by RaysOfHope on Sep 20, 2008 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

do you think that sonny's trade value can get even higher?

because i think that price,davis and even edwin will be better than sonny in the next couple of years

"It felt good to be out there, I wasn't nervous anymore, and I felt like I belonged out there." -David Price after his ML debut.

by RaysOfHope on Sep 21, 2008 9:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I think Sonny is better than his current ERA and Jackson is worse

as for Price and Davis, I’m not sure how they affect Sonny’s trade value, unless the Rays do something dumb like put him in the bullpen. Price should be about as good as Sonny next year, but Davis is likely to take another year. Top prospects aren’t just immediately sub-4.00 ERA pitchers in the majors most of the time.

Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.

by Sky Kalkman on Sep 22, 2008 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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