baseballmusings.com - 1/26/2009
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Rich Lederer ranks pitchers by strikeouts per 100 pitches, which he feels is a better measure of pitching ability than K per 9. The link comes via River Ave. Blues who notes: Three Yankees finished in the top six, as...
mlb.mlb.com - 1/23/2009
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It's an epoch of power in Major League
Baseball. Even now, with home run numbers down a...
bit from record highs earlier in the decade, the ball is going out of the park more than it has in any previous era. The corollary of that, though, is that it's ...
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Perception of strikeouts changing
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There's a possibility that five Brewers could hit 30 HR in 2009. Craig Counsell will not be one of them. Ryan Braun likely will: Be sure to stop by the BCB Community Projections for left field and offer your opinion on his 2009 performance.
If you want to compare Jeff Suppan to Braden Looper, here's a little more ammunition: Both rank in the bottom thirty in strikeouts per 100 pitches. (h/t Baseball Musings) Peter Gammons (via MLB Trade Rumors) reports that Looper, Jon Garland ...
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