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The Kevin Millwood Dilemma
The Kevin Millwood Dilemma
Shortly after locking down a splendid seven-inning, 113-pitch Opening Day victory on a chilly, sun-splashed Monday morning some five months ago, a svelte, re-energized Kevin Millwood made the following declaration to D Magazine's Mike Hindman: "Coming out of spring training, I felt like I could ...
Rangers won't sit Millwood to save $12M | texasrangers.com: News
Rangers won't sit Millwood to save $12M | texasrangers.com: News
mlb.mlb.com — By T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com 09/10/09 2:42 PM ET ARLINGTON -- Kevin Millwood starts for the Rangers... on Friday against the Seattle Mariners. The question put to pitching coach Mike Maddux this week in Cleveland is if this will be Millwood's last start ... (more) Rangers won't sit Millwood to save $12M | ...
Trouble In Texas: Rangers' Fiscal Plight Reportedly Worsening
Trouble In Texas: Rangers' Fiscal Plight Reportedly Worsening
bbtia.com — There are times that I find myself lamenting the late-night predisposition that often keeps me awake deep... into the early-morning hours, but this revelatory column on the reportedly intensifying financial plight of Hicks Sports Group and the Texas ... (more) Trouble In Texas: Rangers' Fiscal Plight Reportedly ...
Graph of the Day: Texas Rangers Value Over Contract
Graph of the Day: Texas Rangers Value Over Contract
beyondtheboxscore.com — Sabermetrics are simple, and almost universally driven towards a single idea: the separation of one player’s performance... from that of his peers. All analysis is based on the idea of prudently addressing scarcity: too few players of the otherworldly talent level required at ... (more) Graph of the Day: Texas Rangers Value Over Contract
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Millwood’s Regression
baseballmusings.com — Baseball Time in Arlington charts Kevin Millwood’s increase in pitches per inning throughout the season. While the ballooning nature of Millwood’s 2009 pitch counts remain a focal point of concern, what’s particularly disconcerting with respect to this graph is that Millwood’s inning-by-inning workload is also ballooning, with the corollary being that greater fatigue and diminished performance is to be naturally expected when a starting pitcher is still consistently logging 110-120 pitches every fifth day, but is simultaneously ...

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