Daniel Cabrera is putting it together
Every year I draft this guy thinking this is the year he puts it together. And every year I drop him after a month. He has been very good this year, and should improve.
5-1 with a 3.48 ERA. He has tossed 7 straight quality starts, and isnt walking anybody these days. He walked zero batters against the Red Sox and Yankees in back to back starts, two of the most patient teams in baseball. 24 walks in 63 innings but over this stretch of games his walk rate is dropping each game. He has ditched the high 90s fastball and gone to a 2 seam fastball a la Wang and Carmona and has become a groundball pitcher which has dropped his strikeout rate but his whip dramatically as well.
Do you believe he will be a Wang or Carmona type? Or should the Orioles sell high?
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he still needs to keep doing it, i think if he keeps it up til the trade deadline he is gone…. him and edwin jackson could just be late bloomers but lets wait for them to at least put a dozen starts down first.
"If you were a hot dog, would you eat yourself?"
by Trobone on May 21, 2008 3:28 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I'm a believer
Never really followed him much, but those regression trees I put together in the offseason (see the November diary) identified him as the kind of guy that is likely to take a step forward….so I grabbed him in my league, for the first time ever. Basically, he was grouped with guys that had middling results….but the internal ratios that led to those stats were in the “most favorable category to break out” group…..and this was then supported by the scouting report on him.
And there are enough examples of guys that dramatically improved their BB rate after age 25 that it has precedent.
by siddfynch on May 21, 2008 9:20 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Big Fan
He is almost exclusively throwing his fastball right now and it has led to great results. Once he harnesses his offspeed pitches he has a chance to be a truly special pitcher.
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
-Jonathan Swift
by King Billy Royal on May 21, 2008 12:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Watched last night
He started off 3-0 on the first hitter, and i thought uh-oh. His second start for me in fantasy. I forget who here kept lauding his trunaround, but i finally gave him a shot, against BoSox and yanks no less. he has been quite good. Getting grounders and fewer walks. Someone said his 7 walk game a few games ago was pitched in horrible weather.
Yanks do seem to have lost some of their patience, not looking at the numbers, just from wwatching them. So, i don’t know if their walk rate is same as usual, but they don’t battle the pitcher like in the past.
And we can ask Jeter whjat he thinks of Cabreras new found control. Admittedly, he dives in, but ouch. You could almost hear that in Manhattan with the sound on the tv turned off. Thought he broke it.
by wobatus on May 21, 2008 2:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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