Posts Tagged ‘starting pitching’

A Series of Pitch Count Plots to Freak You Out

28th August 2008 by Chris 3 Comments

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 [...]

Valuing The Rotation

12th August 2008 by Chris 4 Comments

A quick post today on Wins Above Replacement and our starting rotation. Tango has a nice post on how to calculate it and some other concepts associated with WAR.
WAR is wins above replacement.  Replacement is defined very specifically for my purposes: it’s the talent level for which you would pay the minimum salary on the [...]