Chartball's history of the 2011 Cardinals.
http://chartball.com/posters/STL2011.html

Lets take a look at all-time career pitching performances, as well as active pitchers still in the league. Two of em are still pitching this postseason, Colby Lewis who pitched only 5.2 innings last nite with a 6.35 ERA, and Chris Carpenter, pitching tonight, and looking to follow up to his dominant series winning performance last Friday against the Phillies.going 5 innings giving up 3 runs.

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I think the saberist in us all can appreciate this...

"The only thing I ask you is to leave your CG prejudice and/or agenda right here. This is not a story about him, he is just a perfect outlier to analyze. This is a long story made predominantly out of thin air."

Carlos Gonzalez, Gon on a Mountain? | Athletics Nation

Dave Cameron is on the mend.

"The results of that test are in – I officially have no more leukemia in my body. The doctors won’t say I’m in remission until they discharge me from the hospital in a week or two, but given that I’m currently cancer-free, I’m happy to use that term, even if it is technically a little premature."

Hey folks, if you'd like to check out some past posts here at BtB and help me possibly win a contest all at the same time, click through the links below:

Visualizing Major League Baseball Over the Past Decade: http://sbn.to/qRuFjR

Visualizing the Most and Least Cost Effective Run Creators in 2010: http://sbn.to/nbQv9O

Interactive Team Comparison Tool: http://sbn.to/q97ZLT

All of your clicks are most appreciated.

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Rookie of the year, by position in the draft where they were picked, 1980-2010

True quality starts
Highest pct. of true quality starts by MLB pitchers, 2000-2011

This is my attempt to give a thumbnail sketch of a relievers usage in a bull pen (Tigers edition).

X-axis is xFIP, y-axis is total batters faced and the size of the bubble is dictated by the average leverage index of when each reliever enters the game.

Jeff Zimmerman had made some graphs this time last year on this, in a it different way.

So, besides the fact that I need to make the bubbles all one color, is there anything you'd do differently? Should I make the bubbles size based on TBF and not gmLI?

(click here to embiggen)

The Mets have been bad at Shutdown Innings in 2011.

A Shutdown Inning occurs when a team follows a half-inning in which they scored at least one run with a half-inning in which they allowed no runs.

The above illustrates the amount of Shutdown Innings the Mets pitchers have tallied so far in 2011 against those of their opponents (as well as the amount of runs scored in non-shutdown innings).