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Sheehan: Pitcher Workloads (June 19, 2003)
Discussion ThreadPosted 3:21 p.m.,
June 19, 2003
(#6) -
eric
(homepage)
Ross,
I believe it was Tango who presented some study that showed there are more pitches during an average AB that results in a K or a BB than one that results in a BIP.
This is intuitive. You need a minimum of three pitches to get a K, so the average has to be higher than three for a K, and a minimum of four pitches to get a BB, so the average has to be higher than four fora BB. You only need to throw one pitch to get a BIP. So all those one- or two-pitch ABs should pull down the average number of pitches for an AB that results in a BIP.
In regards to the article, it's funny that Sutcliffe would talk about how many pitches he threw, and cite specific games. Any pitcher has high pitch-count games. In the homepage link is a game log of Clemens' 1996 season...three games over 150 pitches with a high of 161 (which was accomplished in 7.2 innings!). Randy Johnson likewise has high pitch counts, and I'm sure most pitchers that have had a decently long career have that one game where he got left in for a very long time (at least pitchers who came up before about five years ago). Oh well, I guess people on here don't need to be told that Sutcliffe says stupid stuff sometimes.
Gleeman - Jeter - Clutch (October 30, 2003)
Posted 11:21 a.m.,
November 1, 2003
(#14) -
Eric
Scoriano, can you explain to us why being better than your teammates is clutch?
Pythag - Ben VL (December 12, 2003)
Posted 5:20 p.m.,
December 14, 2003
(#1) -
Eric
(homepage)
Homepage goes to a SOSHer's mini-study on team quality and marginal chances of winning the WS.
Interesting, as I would've expected the point where the marginal chance starts to get smaller much closer to the average win total of a playoff team.
Pythag - Ben VL (December 12, 2003)
Posted 7:48 p.m.,
December 15, 2003
(#4) -
Eric
FJM, you can always point to exceptions. But for the aggregate, I'd imagine that regular season record DOES predict postseason success.
Sophomore Slumps? (March 23, 2004)
Posted 11:48 p.m.,
March 23, 2004
(#16) -
Eric
I think if you take a look at how the "sophomore slump" term is used, it will VERY often be used to refer to a ROY. And in general, it will be used to describe a player that had an outstanding rookie season, on some level. I don't think changing the sample of the study will change the effect. Gleeman's study was looking at players who had good rookie years. ROY winners were good choices for a sample.