And win a game.
Barry Zito hurled 7 innings of 3-hit, 1-run baseball for the Giants while striking out 6 batters and walking 5. The bottom of the 4th inning was particularly weird when Zito did the following:
Martin Prado walks. None out.
Chipper Jones called out on strikes. One out.
Yunel Escobar walks. Martin Prado to 2nd. One [...]
Posts Tagged ‘starting pitching’
Moving Jonathan
There’s been a good bit of talk regarding Jonathan Sanchez floating around lately on the Internet and other various Giants fansites. The common thread seems to be split into two parts. First, is it time that the Giants gave up on Jonathan Sanchez as a starting pitcher. Second, why not move him back into the [...]
NL West Projected SP WAR Graph #3
Big thanks to Eric Simon of Mets Blog Amazin’ Avenue for both the inspiration and some spreadsheet help along the way.
(Click to large-ify)
This stacked colum graph depicts the WAR values for the starting rotations that we looked at last week. I’ve set the replacement-level for starting pitchers to 5.50 runs. All projections are from CHONE [...]
A Series of Pitch Count Plots to Freak You Out
Note: This is not a post to debate the merits of pitch counts. Don’t do that. We’ve all heard the arguments for and against PC’s ad nauseum. This isn’t a post endorsing, or opposing them, just information for you to look at. I personally believe that pitch counts are only a proxy to work from [...]