Starters With Postseason Starting Experience 40 IP-20 ER 4.50 ERA Regular Season Baseline 1372...

Starters With Postseason Starting Experience
40 IP-20 ER
4.50 ERA

Regular Season Baseline
1372 IP-536 ER
3.52 ERA

Starters With Postseason Starting Inexperience
32 IP-11 ER
3.09 ERA

Regular Season Baseline
934 IP-315 ER
3.04 ERA

Keep your experience, I'll take the talent.

Memories Of Kevin Malone: Gritty Veteran Clutch Starters

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The lesson here is that managers apply a higher standard to inexperienced starters than to experienced ones, isn’t it?

by Tommy Bennett on Oct 10, 2009 7:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

You mean for the regular season baseline?

Not really. Just happened to be the sample size up until that point.

Kershaw/Lee/Wolf all had great seasons.

I have no idea if it’s even true in the larger scheme of things. This was like through the first two games of the Divisional Series only.

I wrote about it because the local media made a huge stink about the Dodgers starters lacking experience. Found it hilarious that Kershaw comes up huge in two pivotal games down the stretch, while the offense they left for dead a week ago destroys certified playoff ace™ Chris Carpenter.

Just found it interesting that it was occurring to others teams as well, so I expanded it a bit.

by kensai on Oct 11, 2009 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs