Daily Notes: Caribbean Series Information Post, Game Day 6

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Caribbean Series Information Post, Game Day 6
The Caribbean Series — featuring the champion from each of the Dominican Winter, Mexican Pacific, Puerto Rican, and Venezuelan Winter Leagues — began Friday in Hermosillo, Mexico, and continues through February 7th.

What follows is an assortment of information regarding that Series after five games.

Scores
Here are the results from Tuesday’s games, with links to the relevant box scores:

Game 1: Puerto Rico 4, Venezuela 1
Game 2: Dominican Republic 11, Mexico 6

Standings
The Series is played in a double round-robin format, with each team playing every other one twice. After the completion of same, the top two teams will meet in a championship game with a view to acquiring capital-G Glory.

Here’s a table of the standings through five games, copy-and-pasted illicitly from ESPN Deportes, but then formatted to suggest nothing of the sort:

Team	G	P	PCT	JD	CA	CP	DIF
República Dominicana	4	1	.800	–	34	21	13
México	2	3	.400	2	19	21	-2
Puerto Rico	2	3	.400	2	13	17	-4
Venezuela	2	3	.400	2	10	17	-7

And here’s a glossary, with English translations, for the above:

G: Ganados (Wins)
P: Perdidos (Losses)
PCT: Porcentaje de victorias (Winning Percentage)
JD: Juegos detrás (Games Back)
CA: Carreras anotadas (Runs Scored)
CP: Carreras permitidas (Runs Allowed)
DIF: Diferencial de carreras (Run Differential)

Stats
Here is a slightly absurd, but not entirely usesless, leaderboard of the top-10 hitting performances through the first five games of the Caribbean Series. SCOUT+ an offensive measure calculated with regressed home-run, walk, and strikeout rates, where 100 is average and above 100 is above average. (Click here for more on what is SCOUT.)

Player	Team	Pos	PA	xHR%	xBB%	xK%	SCOUT+
Miguel Tejada	DR	SS	22	2.9%	9.6%	21.8%	112
Donell Linares	DR	3B	19	2.6%	8.8%	20.9%	107
Rey Navarro	PUR	2B	18	2.6%	8.8%	21.1%	107
Jose Ramirez	DR	2B	25	2.6%	10.5%	23.3%	107
Barbaro Canizares	MEX	1B	16	2.3%	9.9%	21.4%	106
Alberto Rosario	DR	C	8	2.7%	8.3%	22.0%	105
Joe Thurston	VEN	OF	18	2.3%	9.3%	21.1%	105
Jordany Valdespin	DR	OF	24	2.6%	8.1%	21.5%	103
Jose Castillo	VEN	2B	20	2.6%	8.7%	22.8%	103
Alfredo Amezaga	MEX	2B	22	2.6%	7.6%	21.1%	103

And here are the top-10 pitching performances thus far — in this case by SCOUT-, a metric calculated with regressed strikeout and walk rates where 100 is average and below 100 is above average.

Player	Team	G	GS	IP	TBF	xK%	xBB%	SCOUT-
Jailen Peguero	DR	3	0	3.1	13	25.9%	8.4%	90
Yeiper Castillo	VEN	2	1	6.1	24	26.0%	8.5%	91
Ricardo Gomez	PUR	2	0	3.0	9	25.7%	8.4%	91
Ken Ray	VEN	1	1	6.0	24	25.4%	8.2%	91
David Reyes	MEX	2	0	5.2	18	25.2%	8.3%	92
Victor Moreno	VEN	1	0	1.2	5	25.2%	8.5%	93
Saul Rivera	PUR	3	0	3.0	11	24.7%	8.4%	94
Jose Cobos	MEX	4	0	3.2	12	24.8%	8.6%	95
Angel Castro	DR	1	1	7.0	24	24.1%	8.2%	96
Hector Navarro	MEX	2	0	1.0	5	24.3%	8.5%	96

Notable Performance: Yeiper Castillo
Although it didn’t ultimately lead to a win, 24-year-old right-hander Yeiper Castillo — of both Venezuelan club Magallanes and also (as of December) the Chicago Cubs minor-league system — was excellent on Tuesday, striking out eight of 18 batters faced while only walking one.

Here’s Castillo getting a swinging-strike from Puerto Rico’s Andy Gonzalez in the first inning, on what appears to be a hard slider:

Here’s a changeup (considered to be Castillo’s best pitch) to strike out Johnny Monell in the second:

Here’s a strikeout of Jesus Feliciano in the third on what appears to be a different breaking ball, with less horizontal and more vertical movement:

And, finally, a slower version of that same pitch:

Schedule
The Series is available both streaming via Watch ESPN and also on ESPN Deportes.

Here are today’s games (ET):

6:00 p.m. Dominican Republic at Venezuela
9:30 p.m. Mexico at Puerto Rico