Al Baldwin  
Relief Pitcher | Free Agents

Pitching
The Free Agents hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. He tends to work slowly when in a jam, which just makes his problems worse by lulling his fielders to sleep. Never a hard thrower, Baldwin now has games when he can't hit 85 MPH with his fastball. He attacks lefties and righties with similar success.

Defense & Hitting
His move to first isn't very good, but his delivery is fairly quick and he isn't overly vulnerable to the stolen base. He tends to fall off slightly to the first-base side of the mound, making him vulnerable to bunts toward third base. He makes up for that minor flaw by being aggressive in fielding his position. Baldwin is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Baldwin has some pop in his swing. Interesting sidenote, The Free Agents have been known to use Baldwin as a pinch-runner on occasion.

2014 Outlook
I just don't know if The Free Agents are ever going to get what they expect out of him.

          -- Moostard Nyman
 

 

Year Team AS EN CO HR GF vL Hm Sc CL FB CU SI SL CB SC KN Age Exp Delivery Slot CH PH SP FA Nyman Rating
2003 ATL 75 70 73 68 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 29 4 Overhand Active 0 0 0 64 296
2004 FA 76 70 73 68 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 30 5 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 64 296
2005 LON 74 70 73 68 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 31 7 Overhand Active 0 0 0 64 294
2006 LON 74 70 73 68 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 31 7 Overhand Active 0 0 0 64 294
2007 LON 76 70 73 68 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 33 8 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 64 293
2008 FA 76 70 73 68 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 34 9 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 64 292
2009 FA 76 69 73 68 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 35 10 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 64 290
2010 FA 74 66 71 68 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 36 11 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 63 281
2011 FA 71 63 71 68 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 37 12 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 63 273
2012 FA 67 60 68 67 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 38 13 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 61 259
2013 FA 64 58 66 66 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 39 14 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 59 296
2014 FA 60 56 63 64 45 45 48 46 51 60 0 74 0 65 0 0 40 15 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 57 280
Ratings Delta   -4 -2 -3 -2                         +1 +1           -2 -16
History generated by Biorhythm v2.6.86 on Tue May 10 16:22:47 EDT 2005

Data printed in red denotes that player was in the top two percent for that category and year. Blue data denotes membership to the bottom two percent.