Tim Collins: Still Pitching All the Time, Still Walking Everyone

by Freneau on Aug 25, 2011 3:31 PM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

Tim Collins in three bullet points:

He is not tall
He pitches often
He walks people

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Tim Collins	4-4	56	0	0	0	0	0	56.1	44	23	22	4	41	45	3.51	1.51

Yost has sent Collins out there 56 times this season, despite increasing evidence he just really isn't worth the trouble. Collins has a walk rate of 6.6 BB/9, which is one of the higher numbers you will ever see. However, Yost has held off on using Collins since the Boston series, so maybe he's cooling on him. Maybe.

He's managed to maintain a reasonable ERA thanks to a good number of strikeouts and a low home run total, along with the natural benefit relievers recieve regarding other people's runs.

Given the natural volitility of reliever careers and the fact that most of these guys burn out quickly, I'm not really enthusiastic about Collins's future. It would be cool if he was still striking out 10 batters per 9, but he's not.

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the headline could use a ".......whatever"

by BeauJackson on Aug 25, 2011 3:37 PM EDT reply actions

I knew he'd been issuing loads of walks, but had no idea his WHIP was above 1.5. Wow.

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by KeepItCopacetic on Aug 25, 2011 3:53 PM EDT reply actions

that is really not good for a reliever

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by buddyball on Aug 25, 2011 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions

it's terrible.

but while I’m sorta underwhelmed by his season, he’s only 21, and he’s probably better than this.

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by ChrisCEIT on Aug 25, 2011 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions

Overly facile mechanics tweak: does he land on the ball of his foot or his heal?

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by Scott McKinney on Aug 25, 2011 4:09 PM EDT reply actions

or his heel?

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by Scott McKinney on Aug 25, 2011 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions

or his heil?

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by buddyball on Aug 25, 2011 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions

Or it could just be

that he doesn’t get out on his front let… .extension….

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by 306008 on Aug 26, 2011 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions

I couldn't believe it that he has appeared in 56 games

I knew he seemed to pitch in a lot of games, but 56? Yikes!

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by buddyball on Aug 25, 2011 4:12 PM EDT reply actions

interesting Tim Collins split

Tim Collins, March 31st to May 28th: 28 games, 29 2/3 IP, 31 Ks/24 walks, 2.73 ERA, 9.40 Ks per 9
Tim Collins, June 1st to now: 28 games, 26 2/3 IP, 14 Ks/17 walks, 4.39 ERA, 4.73 Ks per 9

So Collins has seen his K rate drop by half since the two day stretch in May where he threw 71 pitches. STUNNING

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by BHWick on Aug 25, 2011 4:21 PM EDT reply actions

Meh

That’s also around the time the AL Central gets a second look at him. I bet that is a bigger factor.

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by kcbottom9th on Aug 25, 2011 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions

And the research shows that relievers don’t perform worse when they pitch frequently.

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by Scott McKinney on Aug 25, 2011 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions

With certain bounds, I presume?

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by KeepItCopacetic on Aug 25, 2011 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm sure there's an upper limit

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by Scott McKinney on Aug 26, 2011 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions

One interesting thing about that split is that his walk % actually went DOWN in June/July/Aug

Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448

by SagehenMacGyver47 on Aug 25, 2011 6:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Seems like Tim Collins

Was going to be a guy the team gave up on quickly, stashed in AAA, leaving us to a FREE TIM COLLINS movement.

Instead, they’ve given him tons of chances, and Collins is pretty “meh.”

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by RoyalsRetro on Aug 25, 2011 5:14 PM EDT reply actions

But He's A

Lefty! Gotta have one! Seriously, I’m surprised they’ve persisted in running him out there despite the mediocre at best results. He has the stuff, but his command has but his command has been awful. It seems he could work on this in Omaha.

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by philofthenorth on Aug 25, 2011 11:51 PM EDT up reply actions