Kendrick and the “Hafta’ Counts”
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Last year, Kyle Kendrick finished fifth in NL Rookie of the Year voting, following a successul 3/5 season with the Phillies . His performance supremely aided a depleted starting rotation and he was expected to be a key cog in their plans this year. Due to his low strikeout count and high home run total, Kendrick’s 3.87 ERA translated to a 4.90 FIP. All of the projection systems pegged ...
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The lack of strike one kills Jon Lester
Published 4/18/2008 by Tim Daloisio at Fire Brand of the American League
... working from behind a remarkable 65% of the time. While Lester worked efficiently out of 1-0 counts most of the day, his track record will prove that not to be a sustainable way for Lester to show success. In fact, after reading through the post to follow, I would be surprised if any reader would come away feeling positive about the development of the young left hander so far this young season. It only makes sense that pitchers that pitch in pitchers counts and stay out of the “hafta” counts (a “hafta” count being a count where a pitcher hafta throw a strike) are more ...
