Nationals' Bullpen Hero of the Day #1

I like to be fair, and given the recent performance of the bullpen, it's about time I started highlighting their successes as well as their failures. The first award is made for the 11th June game against the Reds.

Reliever            Effect on 
                    Win Expectancy
Beimel                   0.175
Tavárez                  0.121

I considered awarding a Goat for yesterday's game, but I decided that the real failing lay with Nick Johnson's foul pop-up error. Sorry, Nick; Ron Villone will be heaving a sigh of relief — there's a pun to end the entry with.

Nationals' Bullpen Goat of the Day #14

I had this post all ready to go yesterday, but then the bullpen came through in yesterday's game I put it on hold. Being the sort of fellow who likes to accentuate the positive, I was going to hide Goat#14 (for the game of 10 June) within a post celebrating yesterday's heroes of the bullpen, but I haven't got a moment to do the analysis just now.

Reliever            Effect on 
                    Win Expectancy
Bergmann                -0.643
Villone                 -0.508
Hanrahan                 0.034
Beimel                   0.021
MacDougal                0.343

I really thought Villone was going to get it.