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Strike Three wrote:

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If you are working on the rating, I will put in what is becoming my annual plug to rate Mark DeRosa at SS! Having Martin Prado qualify at SS would also help me out big time.

timz wrote:

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I'm wondering about Micah Owings with the Reds. He made 4 pinch hitting appearances but didn't pitch for them. Will he have a pitching rating with the Reds?

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How could he?

timz wrote:

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DMB often gives a guy a rating on a position he may have played on another team when he is traded and does not appear in the field. The exception is DH's. I'm curious about how they will handle this. An example is Jeff Clement of Seattle. In 2007 he did not appear in the field, but was given rating of fr at catcher.

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Pitching performance is not represented by a rating, but by an event table based on actual statistical performance. With no actual pitching performance as a Red how do you create an event table for him? I suppose you could argue that AL pitchers who don't actually bat due to the DH are represented by a generic pitcher's batting event table and position players who are brought in to pitch in a blowout are represented by a generic non-pitcher's pitching event table, but neither seems to be entirely apt. I don't think there's a generic pitching event table for *pitchers* that didn't pitch.

The obvious solution is to use his overall performance for both teams, actually trading him from Arizona to Cincinnati. But if you are one of the people that believe that it's appropriate to distinguish a player's performance for one team during the season as entirely separate from his performance for another team, aren't you bound by that position to accept the fact that because Micah Owings didn't pitch for Cincinnati, he can't pitch for Cincinnati?