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MLB Pitchers: First Half
Independent of ballpark factors and team defense, these are the pitchers who have given their team the best chance to win the highest percentage of games in which they’ve started. These are pitchers with an arbitrary minimum of 16 GS + a minimum of 100 IP.
1) Brad Penny 2) Dan Haren 3) Tim Hudson 4) Jake Peavy 5) Chris Young 6) Ian Snell 7) Jon Garland 8) Kelvim Escobar 9) Derek Lowe 10) John Lackey 11) John Maine 12) Matt Morris 13) Brandon Webb 14) Joe Blanton 15) Justin Verlander 16) Mark Buehrle 17) James Shields 18) Johan Santana 19) Jeff Francis 20) Daisuke Matzusaka 21) CC Sabathia 22) Noah Lowry 23) Gil Meche 24) Aaron Harang 25) Josh Beckett 26) Ben Sheets 27) Matt Cain 28) Fausto Carmona 29) Tom Gorzellany 30) Ted Lilly Notable exclusions include: Perez, Mitre, Guthrie, Wang, James, & King Felix. Hopefully they start enough games for an evaluation at season’s end. Overall value may be slightly different when considering total starts; for instance, Erik Bedard narrowly missed the top 30, but has started 19 games (Oswalt leads all with 20), whereas Escobar and Beckett are on the list, but have only started 16 games. That is to say, of course, that the latter two may not rank as high as Bedard after 19 starts. |
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Re: MLB Pitchers: First Half
Hamels is also a notable exclusion.
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Hamels is also a notable exclusion. [/ QUOTE ] I was wondering about that. But he said " these are the pitchers who have given their team the best chance to win the highest percentage of games in which they’ve started" and Hamels has had a couple bad starts... I'd like to know the exact criteria though. |
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lol @ Santana being 18
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I'd also like to know the criteria for this. PHB, do you know it/can you find it?
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This seems a little screwy.
Just a random name that seemed out of place.. I picked out Garland and checked out his game log. Garland's game log: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/...i6CboTzwyFCLcF Hamels' game log: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/...i6CboTzwyFCLcF Doesn't seem like one guy should be #7 on the list, and one guy should be off the list completely. Santana's, by comparison: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/...i6CboTzwyFCLcF |
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Hamels narrowly missed the list. He's at like 34. He'll definitely be up there by the end of the year. The guy is good.
Garland is so high (relative to his 3.92 ERA) because he's had 3 God-awful starts which have destroyed his ERA, but the rest have been, on average, pretty solid. I can quantify the rankings, if you like, but I didn't want to post them, because I still have a lot of work to do. My valuations are admittedly dirty. Plus it's not a huge sample-size, so the actual numerical valuations will have more meaning after 33-35 starts. But for reference, Ted Lilly (30th) is at 27.25, and Penny (1st) is at a ridiculous 40.5. Hamels is 26.17. |
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1,2,6,28 off your list and on my fantasy team....guess thats good
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Interesting. I didn't know you compiled this yourself. Good work...interested to see the rankings by season's end.
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1,2,6,28 off your list and on my fantasy team....guess thats good [/ QUOTE ] This ranking doesn't follow a very direct relationship with Fantasy results; though surely you'll do good to have Penny, Haren, Snell, and Carmona on your team. |
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