Under The Knife: Fallen Aces by Will Carroll

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Update about CC Sabathia
Published 4/21/2008 by Peter Bendix at Beyond the Box Score: Front Page Posts
In a recent article on this site I showed that CC Sabathia has thrown fewer sliders than last year so far this season, especially in his past three starts. I wondered if this was because of an injury. The article has received some attention, and recently on Baseball Prospectus, Will Carroll wrote about Sabathia, disspelling any ...

Carsten Charles Sabathia II
Published 4/22/2008 by Brandon Heikoop at The Outsiders Look at the Insides of Baseball
... hard to believe an extra 4 starts would vault the league leader in innings pitched into the top 20, let alone the top 5 where one could justifiably raise a flag. Further evidence against CC comes in support from Will Carrol in mid February when he writes, "That said, he's as unrisky as pitchers come from a mechanical standpoint. There's some concern that the post-season innings may have an impact, but 200 innings is almost a gimme for the big man." In today's Under the Knife, Will Carrol also reports the following fallacies, ...