Tommy Hanson, Why You Hating On Me

The big news for the Angels was the trade for Tommy Hanson. Hanson has had his ups and downs over the past year, regressing a little bit from the hot start his career got off to. Nonetheless, he has still posted some pretty good peripherals over the past two seasons. Looking at his numbers over the past two years, while giving more weight to the most recent season, Hanson has still put up some pretty decent numbers. Hanson's tendancy is to be more of a fly ball pitcher, which makes his higher than normal walk rate a little troubling... hopefully Angels Stadium can help suppress that. Overall, I think the trade was a good one for the Angels. They need starting pitching and Hanson is better than he is given credit for. His closest comparable pitchers "skill-wise" are strike-out machines who are a little on the wild side.

Top 20 Most Similar Starting Pitchers

Rank	Name	K/9	BB/9	GB/FB
NA	Tommy Hanson	8.79	3.52	1.00
1	Matt Moore	9.07	4.08	0.87
2	Erik Bedard	8.57	3.77	1.23
3	Brandon Beachy	9.20	3.07	0.87
4	Michael Pineda	9.11	2.89	0.81
5	Bud Norris	8.71	3.48	1.00
6	James McDonald	7.77	3.78	0.96
7	Felipe Paulino	8.95	3.61	1.23
8	Brandon Morrow	8.93	3.20	0.95
9	Ryan Dempster	8.18	3.10	1.23
10	Lance Lynn	9.19	3.28	1.39
11	J.A. Happ	8.48	3.93	0.97
12	Felix Doubront	9.34	3.97	1.32
13	Jarrod Parker	6.87	3.11	1.44
14	Josh Johnson	7.87	3.05	1.52
15	Clayton Kershaw	9.26	2.34	1.27
16	Justin Verlander	9.01	2.18	1.09
17	Tim Lincecum	9.17	4.03	1.49
18	Cole Hamels	8.71	2.06	1.36
19	Ryan Vogelsong	7.33	3.02	1.21
20	James Shields	8.55	2.32	1.59

August 17th - Dodgers vs Braves Simulation Box Score

                   |    Wins    Losses         RS         RA
  Dodgers  +-----------------------------------------------------
                   |    49447   50553      421773   401132

  Vegas Results:
             Money Line: Braves -118/+108 or Braves chances of winning are 53.05%
             Run Total:     Over 7-1/2 -110, Under 7-1/2 -110 (or approximately 7.6 runs)

Hitters

Name	AB	Hits	H1	H2	H3	HR	RBI	RUNS	BB	SO	wOBA
Shane Victorino	4.460	1.333	0.893	0.248	0.073	0.119	0.385	0.406	0.389	0.690	0.358
Mark Ellis	4.395	1.238	0.890	0.245	0.027	0.076	0.452	0.266	0.298	0.832	0.322
Matt Kemp	4.314	1.379	0.911	0.270	0.042	0.156	0.597	0.282	0.327	1.001	0.379
Andre Ethier	4.164	1.231	0.802	0.289	0.011	0.129	0.593	0.223	0.401	0.992	0.359
Hanley Ramirez	4.099	1.239	0.820	0.270	0.036	0.113	0.547	0.244	0.335	0.890	0.359
James Loney	4.014	1.207	0.846	0.266	0.011	0.085	0.526	0.195	0.327	0.644	0.348
Luis Cruz	4.004	1.106	0.748	0.277	0.009	0.072	0.481	0.163	0.210	0.795	0.314
Matt Treanor	3.831	0.963	0.706	0.194	0.006	0.057	0.386	0.146	0.284	0.892	0.292
Pitchers Spot	3.865	0.542	0.442	0.084	0.004	0.012	0.173	0.106	0.151	1.780	0.159
Braves
Michael Bourn	4.327	1.262	0.933	0.168	0.096	0.064	0.306	0.367	0.326	1.236	0.335
Martin Prado	4.146	1.333	0.926	0.287	0.028	0.093	0.495	0.279	0.368	0.563	0.372
Jason Heyward	4.029	1.108	0.735	0.172	0.035	0.165	0.571	0.216	0.438	1.215	0.351
Chipper Jones	3.981	1.213	0.774	0.307	0.010	0.122	0.583	0.203	0.373	0.717	0.367
Freddie Freeman	3.873	1.137	0.773	0.217	0.012	0.134	0.555	0.174	0.383	1.008	0.358
Dan Uggla	3.608	0.923	0.551	0.223	0.012	0.138	0.493	0.169	0.532	1.062	0.348
David Ross	3.681	1.058	0.777	0.225	0.004	0.052	0.388	0.162	0.350	0.869	0.332
Paul Janish	3.629	0.922	0.626	0.232	0.026	0.038	0.358	0.143	0.284	0.702	0.299
Pitchers Spot	3.644	0.541	0.430	0.093	0.004	0.013	0.182	0.109	0.178	1.569	0.174

Pitchers

Name	IP	SO	BB	Hits	HR	PC	FIP
Chris Capuano	5.95	6.02	1.99	6.56	0.621	98.0	3.53
Kenley Jansen	0.45	0.73	0.16	0.33	0.028	7.3	1.83
Brandon League	0.42	0.35	0.15	0.47	0.020	6.8	3.21
Javy Guerra	0.60	0.53	0.29	0.67	0.038	10.3	3.72
Randy Choate	0.30	0.33	0.14	0.29	0.018	5.0	3.14
Ronald Belisario	0.24	0.23	0.09	0.26	0.017	4.0	3.36
Shawn Tolleson	0.55	0.52	0.27	0.62	0.061	9.5	4.22
Jamey Wright	0.27	0.24	0.16	0.30	0.016	4.7	3.94
Braves
Tommy Hanson	6.13	4.95	1.67	7.15	0.546	98.3	3.56
Craig Kimbrel	0.42	0.73	0.09	0.27	0.022	6.5	1.05
Jonny Venters	0.38	0.50	0.16	0.35	0.036	6.4	3.02
Eric O'Flaherty	0.62	0.60	0.18	0.66	0.043	9.9	3.02
Cristhian Martinez	0.28	0.30	0.06	0.29	0.025	4.4	2.93
Cory Gearrin	0.16	0.15	0.06	0.17	0.017	2.7	3.90
Luis Avilan	0.76	0.79	0.33	0.78	0.057	12.7	3.39
Chad Durbin	0.50	0.50	0.17	0.56	0.073	8.2	4.13

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August 17th - Dodgers vs Braves Likely Final Scores

Top 100 Most Likely Final Scores

Rank	Favorte	LAN	ATL		Rank	Favorte	LAN	ATL
1	ATL	2	3		51	ATL	0	4
2	ATL	3	4		52	LAN	8	2
3	ATL	1	2		53	LAN	8	4
4	LAN	3	2		54	LAN	6	0
5	ATL	4	5		55	ATL	7	8
6	LAN	4	3		56	ATL	0	5
7	LAN	4	2		57	ATL	1	7
8	ATL	2	4		58	LAN	8	1
9	LAN	2	1		59	LAN	8	5
10	LAN	3	1		60	ATL	5	8
11	ATL	1	3		61	ATL	3	8
12	LAN	5	4		62	ATL	2	8
13	LAN	5	3		63	LAN	9	2
14	ATL	5	6		64	ATL	4	8
15	LAN	5	2		65	LAN	7	0
16	ATL	3	5		66	LAN	8	6
17	LAN	4	1		67	LAN	9	3
18	ATL	2	5		68	LAN	9	4
19	ATL	1	4		69	LAN	8	7
20	LAN	6	3		70	ATL	1	8
21	LAN	5	1		71	ATL	0	6
22	ATL	0	1		72	ATL	6	8
23	LAN	6	4		73	ATL	3	9
24	LAN	6	5		74	LAN	10	2
25	LAN	6	2		75	LAN	9	5
26	ATL	4	6		76	LAN	9	1
27	ATL	3	6		77	LAN	10	3
28	LAN	2	0		78	LAN	8	0
29	LAN	3	0		79	ATL	4	9
30	ATL	1	5		80	ATL	2	9
31	ATL	6	7		81	ATL	8	9
32	ATL	0	2		82	LAN	10	4
33	ATL	2	6		83	ATL	5	9
34	LAN	1	0		84	LAN	9	6
35	LAN	6	1		85	ATL	0	7
36	LAN	7	3		86	ATL	1	9
37	LAN	4	0		87	ATL	6	9
38	LAN	7	4		88	LAN	9	0
39	LAN	7	2		89	LAN	10	1
40	ATL	0	3		90	ATL	3	10
41	ATL	4	7		91	LAN	10	5
42	LAN	7	5		92	LAN	9	7
43	LAN	7	1		93	LAN	11	3
44	ATL	1	6		94	ATL	2	10
45	LAN	5	0		95	ATL	7	9
46	ATL	3	7		96	LAN	11	1
47	ATL	2	7		97	LAN	11	2
48	LAN	7	6		98	ATL	4	10
49	LAN	8	3		99	ATL	1	10
50	ATL	5	7		100	ATL	5	10

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