Clemens Report

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MLB miscellany
Published 1/28/2008 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... . There were Clemens/steroids stories too, which we just didn't want to talk about. You can get caught up on what happened with Clemens at ...

Clemens' Agents Release Statistical Report
Published 1/28/2008 by Greg Cohen at Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog
... or 'washed up' in 1996, as some have speculated," the report said. "During the 1996 season Clemens ranked first in strikeouts in the American League and tied his own record by striking out 20 batters in Detroit on Sept. 18, 1996. In addition, he ranked sixth in the AL in ERA, second in the AL in hits per nine innings, and fifth in innings pitched. This performance cannot be reasonably categorized as a 'twilight.'" Here's the report. Baseball Musings has a great breakdown of the report. ...

Flyspecking the Clemens Manifesto
Published 1/28/2008 by Shyster at ShysterBall
... Page 15-30: An extended analysis of Clemens' "peaks and valleys." I'll turn it over to David Pinto at Baseball Musings, who has the most astute take of all of this: The most interesting ...

Stand By Your Man
Published 1/28/2008 by Sooze at Babes Love Baseball
... in speed of his regular fastball caused by aging." Next thing you know, this guy is gonna invent the gyroball. Since the release of the Mitchell Report, Clemens has gone on record with an internet video, newspaper columnists and most recently, Mike Wallace on CBS' 60 Minutes. In every instance, he denies his former trainer, Brian McNamee's allegations of having ever used steroids. Next. Story. Please. [Newsday] | [Sabernomics] | [Baseball Musings]

Clemens's next pitch
Published 1/29/2008 by Mark Serio at BASEBALL HOT CORNER
... I am not qualified to dissect reams of charts, graphs and statistical analysis but here's someone who is noted Stat Guru, David Pinto from Baseball Musings: "The most interesting graphs to me, however, were the ones showing the yearly fluctuations in Rogers ERA margin compared to Johnson and Schilling. Roger's bounces up and down throughout his career. Both Johnson and Schilling start off below their career averages, have a long steady period above their averages, then fall and don't recover. The fact that Clemens bounces around a lot ...