Brad Penny in Great American Ball Park
I did some searching today, trying to find a pitcher that would help the Cincinnati Reds out in 2012. I went through the list of pitchers that have done well in Great American Ball Park and also took into account ones that the Reds could maybe afford. Brad Penny hit my radar and looked very impressive in the Reds Ball Park. Getting a 5 and 1 record with a 3.00 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP in 7 games started and 45 innings pitched with only 4 home runs. Penny is at a price that the Reds could be able to afford and if he keeps doing well in Great American Ball Park he could do very well for the Reds. In 2011, Brad Penny played for Detroit Tigers and finished with a 11 – 11 record with a 5.30 ERA after 31 starts and 181.2 innings pitched.
Of course Brad Penny is not the top of the rotation pitcher they are looking for but with his numbers in their ball park it sure would help the rotation out a lot at home. Penny has 119 wins and 99 losses in 12 seasons with a 4.23 ERA and a 1.36 WHIP. He has given up 187 home runs in 315 games started and 1871 innings pitched with 1250 strike outs. I think if he came back to play in the National League that would really help his career again and he is 34 years old so if the Reds could sign him to a 1 or 2 year contract they would be safe. He has a 101 – 80 record in the National League with 3.99 ERA with 260 games started and 1557.2 innings pitched. I really think it would be good for both the Reds and Penny. If the Reds could get 170 to 180 innings from him and have him pitch good in Great American Ball Park that might really boost the rest of the rotation.
I have listed other pitchers that have done well in Great American Ball Park. Most of them are already on the Reds team and some of the others are either way too expensive for the Reds to get or would cost them way too much in a trade.
Great American Ball Park
Player W6 L ERA GS IP HR SO WHIP Bronson Arroyo 39 36 3.94 101 657.1 101 450 1.24 Aaron Harang 37 39 4.19 112 700.0 108 595 1.29 Johnny Cueto 20 14 3.71 53 327.2 39 276 1.24 Homer Bailey 14 11 5.11 43 244.2 31 207 1.49 Edinson Volquez 14 9 4.38 35 205.1 20 221 1.39 Mike Leake 14 7 4.22 28 172.2 23 118 1.35 Paul Wilson 11 11 4.02 36 226.0 32 147 1.28 Carlos Zambrano 9 3 3.15 14 91.1 9 75 1.29 Eric Milton 8 15 5.71 35 200.0 41 134 1.45 Brandon Claussen 8 14 4.78 31 173.1 27 132 1.47 Kyle Lohse 7 7 3.74 18 113.0 11 70 1.29 Ramon Ortiz 7 5 5.62 15 88.0 17 51 1.58 Roy Oswalt 7 1 3.57 11 70.2 9 57 1.29 Chris Carpenter 6 2 3.03 10 68.1 10 64 1.00 Josh Fogg 5 5 6.21 15 79.2 19 42 1.48 Jose Acevedo 5 4 5.05 15 87.1 15 65 1.32 Cory Lidle 5 4 4.70 11 69.0 7 40 1.29 Brad Penny 5 1 3.00 7 45.0 4 40 1.18 Matt Belisle 4 8 6.13 19 105.2 23 77 1.51 Oliver Perez 4 3 4.69 12 63.1 11 74 1.56 Jason Marquis 4 2 3.79 10 59.1 8 28 1.42 Doug Davis 4 3 3.48 10 62.0 8 41 1.39 Micah Owings 4 3 5.08 8 44.1 8 32 1.56 Kerry Wood 4 1 4.30 7 44.0 7 53 1.09 Ben Sheets 4 0 3.00 5 30.0 2 37 1.10 Kevin Correia 4 0 4.26 5 31.2 5 22 1.23 Travis Wood 3 6 5.48 13 70.2 10 60 1.53 Luke Hudson 3 6 6.42 13 61.2 8 41 1.57 Wandy Rodriguez 3 4 3.99 10 58.2 9 57 1.40 Randy Wolf 3 2 4.78 8 49.0 8 43 1.41 Cliff Lee 3 2 3.79 6 38.0 7 26 1.32 Chris Capuano 3 0 4.50 6 36.0 6 32 1.47 Victor Santos 3 2 7.94 5 22.2 4 23 1.90 Jake Peavy 3 0 3.16 5 31.1 2 25 1.28 Tomo Ohka 3 1 2.92 5 37.0 6 25 0.95 Cole Hamels 3 0 1.64 5 33.0 3 40 0.91 Aaron Cook 3 0 2.65 5 34.0 3 20 1.26 Javier Vazquez 3 1 3.21 4 28.0 4 25 0.96 Mike Pelfrey 3 0 4.33 4 27.0 5 12 1.22 Jeff Weaver 3 0 1.74 3 20.2 3 22 1.02 Rodrigo Lopez 3 0 4.08 3 17.2 5 9 1.36 Zack Greinke 3 0 2.45 3 22.0 2 28 0.86 Freddy Garcia 3 0 2.70 3 20.0 2 13 0.80
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Very nice investigative reporting lol. 🙂 I agree, Penny would do well in a Reds uniform. Do you know the plans for Bailey and Leake in 2012, 4th or 5th starters? Also, just curious, how do you shortlink in your posts? Been trying to do that for a longggg time now.
Thanks and a Great Post,
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Leake and Bailey will probably be 3rd and 4th unless they get another pitcher to go ahead of them. From the looks of it right now it does not look to promising for them to get another starter that will be at the top of the rotation like they wished. I just hope they all can stay injury free for most of the season.
Maybe a one year deal for 3 million for penny?
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I really doubt they could get him but it would be interesting to see how well he would do in GABP for a whole season.
Andrew Brackman just signed on with the Reds. A 6’10 starter…hmmmmm
Brackman was born in Cincinnati (Age 26) and went to Moeller High School (Cincinnati, OH)