The Brewer Advent Calendar #9: Mark DiFelice

by Kyle Lobner on Feb 4, 2009 12:00 PM CST

Behind door #9 we find...Mark DiFelice!

It took Mark DiFelice 10 minor league seasons and 4 organizations to get there, but he made it to the big leagues in 2008 and put together a nice debut season. DiFelice was shelled in his debut at Fenway (three runs on five hits in one inning), but after that he settled down and posted a 1.50 ERA in 18 innings the rest of the way.

All told, even including the rough outing at Fenway, DiFelice posted an ERA+ of 153 for 2008. Only six players in Brewer history have posted a higher ERA+ in their ML debut season:

Pitcher	Season	IP	ERA	ERA+
Doug Henry	1991	36	1.00	402
Dave Stapleton	1987	14.2	1.84	250
Jose Mercedes	1994	31	2.32	217
Jayson Durocher	2002	48	1.88	217
Jaime Cocanower	1983	30	1.80	208
Al Reyes	1995	33.1	2.43	204
Mark DiFelice	2008	19	2.84	153

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DiFelice's ML debut

I’m honestly surprised it wasn’t worse.

Sure, DiFelice did all the damage himself, but that seems like a classic case of Ned Fail. So we have this guy making his major league debut. At Fenway Park. Against the previous year’s World Champions. Scheduled to face, at the minimum, Pedroia, Ortiz, and Ramirez—3 of the best players in MLB right there. What did anyone with sense expect to happen? At least he struck out Manny. No excuse for letting Varitek get on base, though. (And his other earned run came in the next inning from Shouse busily making sure inherited runners scored. He pulled that during game 1 of the doubleheader the previous day too—that wasn’t his weekend.)

by morineko on Feb 4, 2009 12:41 PM CST reply actions

Hey

isn’t this supposed to be getting us excited for the season? You are depressing me. Can Trenni be #8?

September 15: Not a bad little Monday

by molitorfan on Feb 4, 2009 7:11 PM CST reply actions

Don't bag on him too much

Brewers only have to face the Sox every 3 years at the least. Unless David Ortiz ends up in the NL through some sort of fluke process, there’s not too much to worry about.

(I get excited about DiFelice. His career BB/9 is sweeeeet.)

by morineko on Feb 4, 2009 9:09 PM CST up reply actions

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