era Stories - Beyond the Box Score
The FIP & the Pendulum: Jaime Garcia
Jaime Garcia burst onto the scene in 2010 with an excellent rookie season that saw him finish third in the National League Rookie of the Year voting. Garcia posted a 2.77 ERA (which was good for a 69 ERA-) with two-to-one strikeout-to-walk ratio. In his first season post-Tommy John surgery, the...
#1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 NL Starting Pitchers In 2011
The blog Metsrospectus had a cool post linked in the FanShots this week. It investigated where R.A. Dickey's 2011 performance would place him in every other MLB team's rotation. It reminded of a post I had run the last few years, which aimed to quantify what makes a #1 through #5 starting pitcher....
RA versus ERA 1871-2010: Baseball Databank Data Dump 2.3.1
I hate Earned Run Average. I doesn't add anything truly useful over Runs Allowed, unless you think that errors are a Really Good Stat. I mean, I guess they're better than Pitcher Wins or something, but... I don't even have the energy to get into it right now. I'm not even talking about ERA vs....
Edinson Volquez' ERA Cannot Last
This is based on nearly 1,000 cases since 1999. Essentially it's baserunners per nine rankings of pitchers with at least 150 innings in that season and the correlation to their ERA. I included pitchers with at least 40 innings thus far this year to get closer to 1,000. What the correlation shows...
Our Anonymous League-Best Pitching Staff
As I watched Dan Haren get flipped to the Diamondbacks last winter, and suffered through every rumor that had Rich Harden going one way and Joe Blanton another, I thought back to the basic Moneyball rules of moving toward inequality in markets, effectively buying low and selling high. As we...
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