Yesterday afternoon Blanton heaved 2 innings against the Yankees in his much anticipated season debut. He smashed the Bronx Bombers with a 5-0 ground out to fly ball ratio and struck out the mighty RAULLLLLLLLLLLL to end the first. All indications lead to a mighty season of Blandomination with Joe once again heavily featuring the dreaded A.B.P. (Amazing Blanton Pitch).
GO JOE
Big Joe's Cy Young/MVP/World Series Hero/Ultimate Champion/Blangraph's Player of the Year campaign begins tomorrow afternoon against the Yankees. The 1:05 EST will be televised on MLB.tv- game starters aside from Joe have yet to be announced.
For a preview Blangraphs looks to give a prediction of Joe's numbers this year.
IP K/9 BB/9 HR/9 BABIP LOB% GB% HR/FB ERA FIP XFIP WAR
257.66 8.5 1.2 .3 .300 60% 64% 10% 1.01 1.02 1.00 8.6
This was a prediction run with a Blantonian correlation coefficient of 1.0, run ten bajillion times in my head. The % error for a prediction run this way is .001%. The image rendered with this prediction is as follows.
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