Ben Brown's Performance: Striking Day/Night Splits

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00:00Ben Brown, who might just be a vampire at the end of the day. Let's be honest. When you start to

00:04look at these stats for whatever reason, he is not a day walker. He is not somebody who likes

00:09the sunlight. Take a look at these splits. And I know Ben Brown is very tantalizing when you start

00:13to look at what he can do in the strikeout universe. Seven games in the day though, 799 ERA,

00:20a 1.78 whip, seven games in the evening. Give me that 640, 710, give me Ben Brown. Seven games then,

00:29a 368 ERA, a 1.20 whip. George, this is stunning. These splits are unbelievable,

00:35especially when you consider it's unfortunate that Ben Brown happens to pitch for the Wrigley

00:39field bound Chicago Cubs, who still play a little bit more day games than some other organizations

00:45typically do. Ben Brown is a guy that I know fancy circles are trying to figure out and crack the

00:51code. I feel like we cracked it here. It's just a matter of you flat out can't start him in day

00:56games. I don't know what it is about his routine. I don't know if he's hanging out at the club at

01:00night and doing whatever he's doing. I don't know. Maybe he's got some raves happening at nighttime and

01:05the mornings are tough for him. But George, these stats are stark in terms of splits. So what do you

01:10make of these? I mean, it feels like you should be very afraid of Ben Brown in the daytime.

01:16To put it nicely. Now you'd probably want to go a little bit further in a breakdown. Who's he pitched

01:20against in those days? I mean, has it been top lineups here? That sort of thing. Did he have

01:26one bad starts that have really inflated those numbers here, which can happen? But just looking

01:32at it from a general look here, yeah, I'm not starting him down today. All right. It's not like

01:36he's not a guy I'm dying to start anyway. You know, it's not like, oh, he's not Zach Wheeler. Oh,

01:42I want to start him. No, he's a guy. Okay. You think about it. And now this, oh, day? No,

01:46no. Night game? Yes. Day game? No. It's really kind of that simple for me until you see a change

01:51here. I mean, listen, people think Wrigley, they always think the wind's blowing out. The wind blows

01:56in at Wrigley much more than it blows out. But maybe he's been the unlucky guy that, yeah,

02:01every fifth day when he's at home, man, the wind's blowing out. Gale force. So maybe he's that guy too

02:06here. But you can't ignore those numbers here. You just can't. He's not a guy I'm dying to start

02:11anyway. So day game, I'm definitely not starting him.