What the fuck is up with.....

[Yeti]

... Ryan Dempster?

• Looking at a few things: His LOB% this year is 59% (Percentage that batters are stranded). The last few years before that: 76.7%, 73.2%, and 71.0%. So, that's a definite issue. His BABiP isn't ridonkulously higher than before: .326 while the career mark is .302.
• His HR/FB% has shot all the way up to 22% while averaging around 11% during his career
• He is throwing roughly half his pitches into the strike zone, which is fine, but his SwStrk% is 8.5% while it's been in the 11 range for 2008-2010
• Another thing that I found intriguing is that on his pitch type percentage, it show the FB, SL, and SF with percentages all adding up to 100, but then on the side it shows "XX" (unknown) at 20% while it's been around 4% most of his career. Looking at the leaders in this stat, the leader is Alexi Ogando with 34%. One thing peculiar is that there are about 20 people above 15% and then it drops off to 7.6% for Michael Pineda and then to the (what I presume to be) normal numbers of 4% and below. So, maybe Ryan is throwing up some meatballs? I'm not sure. There are plenty of pitchers doing very well with high numbers of XX%

Really, I'm not sure if I can see an explanation of why he sucks now. I haven't been able to watch him for more than the last start against Colorado and I was doing other stuff around the house while it was going on. Plus, I usually choose to not trust my eyes in trying to evaluate someone, because we all have confirmation biases and once we decide a player is some arbitrary classification, then we will be sure to see that in each subsequent instance each time it occurs.

One thing that I have noticed is that Ryan's numbers have gone down each year from 2008-2010 (and 11 of course). To me, the one thing that is encouraging is the face that his xFIP is 3.70, so maybe he won't suck the rest of the year.

[BBM]

He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here. 

Rothschild is gone and he's now old.  It's pretty much that simple

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

He's an overrated white guy who's been able to milk it for 8 years in Chicago.  He should be applauded, really.

[SKO]

Well, I've watched Opening Day, the start against the Astros, and Saturday. My untrained eye tells me he lacks stamina, or something. He seems to do okay for about 4 innings and then the moonshots come in the 5th or 6th. I mean he was one bad call away from giving up back-to-back-to-back homers in the 6th in Houston and the home runs to Barajas, Blake, and Kemp were in the same location. So my answer to you is that he throws shitty fastballs when he's tired.

[Eli]

My untrained eye tells me he lacks stamina, or something.

What that is, is hard to define.

[Waco Kid]

Ryan Dempster sucks.

[R-V]

He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here. 

Rothschild is gone and he's now old.  It's pretty much that simple

Yankees team ERA: 4.21. Cubs team ERA: 5.15. I blame Huey for running the guy out of town.

[SKO]

He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here. 

Rothschild is gone and he's now old.  It's pretty much that simple

Yankees team ERA: 4.21. Cubs team ERA: 5.15. I blame Huey for running the guy out of town.

What we lost, what we never knew we had.

[Yeti]

He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here. 

Rothschild is gone and he's now old.  It's pretty much that simple

Yankees team ERA: 4.21. Cubs team ERA: 5.15. I blame Huey for running the guy out of town.

FDB has been calling for LAWRENCE ROTHSCHILD'S head for years. I blame them

[BH]

He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here. 

Rothschild is gone and he's now old.  It's pretty much that simple

Yankees team ERA: 4.21. Cubs team ERA: 5.15. I blame Huey for running the guy out of town.

FDB has been calling for LAWRENCE ROTHSCHILD'S head for years. I blame them

It SHOULDN'T MATTER if Rudy Jaramillo had turned our offense around like we were promised.

[CBStew]

He sucked prior to rothschild and despite 2008 was just mediocre while Rothschild was here. 

Rothschild is gone and he's now old.  It's pretty much that simple

Yankees team ERA: 4.21. Cubs team ERA: 5.15. I blame Huey for running the guy out of town.

FDB has been calling for LAWRENCE ROTHSCHILD'S head for years. I blame them

It SHOULDN'T MATTER if Rudy Jaramillo had turned our offense around like we were promised.

But he did.

[ChuckD]

Why don't they make the entire Ryan Dempster out of airline food?

[Wheezer]

Plus, I usually choose to not trust my eyes in trying to evaluate someone, because we all have confirmation biases and once we decide a player is some arbitrary classification, then we will be sure to see that in each subsequent instance each time it occurs.

Yeti plucks out his eyes and searches for them where it's brighter. Film at 11.

[Saul Goodman]

Pause?

[Yeti]

He is a fucking dick sucking faggot