On the Pirates: 200 and bust for many starters
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PPG: Kovacevic: 200 and bust for many starters
Published 7/6/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
PPG: Kovacevic: 200 and bust for many starters The evils of Bakerism… Nineteen National League pitchers logged 200-plus innings in 2007, with Snell tied for ninth at 208 and Gorzelanny 17th with 201 2/3. The list included most of the league’s top overall performers, with Brandon Webb, Jake Peavy, Aaron Harang, Carlos Zambrano, Roy Oswalt, John Smoltz, Brad Penny, Jeff Francis, Dontrelle Willis ... Hey, seeing a pattern yet? By any standard, but especially with a 21-year-old, that is extraordinary handling of a pitcher, and there is a widely held view within ...
It's Tough Being a Pitcher
Published 7/6/2008 by Charlie at Bucs Dugout: Front Page Posts
Without exceeding fair-use limits, it's really hard to find a blockquote for the beginning of this Post-Gazette article that explains its argument well, so I suggest you go read it. But here's a snippet:
Nineteen National League pitchers logged 200-plus innings in 2007, with Snell tied for ninth at 208 and Gorzelanny 17th with 201 2/3. The list included most of the league's top overall performers, with Brandon Webb, Jake Peavy, Aaron Harang, Carlos Zambrano, Roy Oswalt, John Smoltz, Brad Penny, Jeff Francis, Dontrelle Willis ...
Hey, seeing a pattern yet?
Right. With ...
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Published 7/7/2008 by Pat (noreply@blogger.com) at Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke?
Remember all the NL Central jokes that people were making last year? Yeah, those are done with now that C.C. Sabathia's going to be a Brewer. Now we're not only that much closer to the Central getting it's fourth World Series team in five years, but suddenly a Rays/Brewers World Series seems not only not insane, but actually plausible. 2013 or bust, Pirate fans! Dejan wrote an interesting article about pitchers reaching 200 innings and blowing up during the next season, but Charlie provided a good counter point to that by pointing out that many of the ...
