A comparison
| Pitcher | Ball% | Swing% | GB% | LD% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 39.8 | 4.83 | 49.1 | 20.4 |
| B | 41.4 | 7.43 | 41.4 | 26.6 |
| C | 35.4 | 4.98 | 41.8 | 22.2 |
| D | 36.6 | 7.36 | 47.5 | 23.4 |
| E | 37.1 | 5.45 | 35.7 | 21.4 |
Which of these pitchers would you prefer? Their identities revealed after the jump. Seriously though, I urge you to take a second or twelve and put those five pitchers in order of preference. It makes the revelation more fun.
Will our mysterious guests enter and sign in please!!
A: Horacio Ramirez, 2007
B: Miguel Batista, 2008
C: Carlos Silva, 2008
D: Joel Pineiro, 2006
E: Jarrod Washburn, 2008
What was your order?
0 recs | 32 comments
I was at
D, B, C, E, A
Which is a sort of respectable order… At least I had Ho last
Last Fan Of Jose Lopez - May 24, 2008
D, A, B, C, E
How utterly horrific.
cwel87 - May 24, 2008
Same... yikes
LongLiveTheKings - May 24, 2008
same
Edgar for Pres - May 24, 2008
DCEBA
Graham MacAree - May 24, 2008
What order were we supposed to get?
Last Fan Of Jose Lopez - May 24, 2008
Is there really a "correct" answer?
thewyrm - May 24, 2008
Not really.
Matthew - May 24, 2008
You sonofabitch
Last Fan Of Jose Lopez - May 24, 2008
I feel cheated
88fingerslukee - May 24, 2008
DABCE
And now I just want to cry. Thanks Matthew…
Robert Lintott - May 24, 2008
Wait until later today.
Matthew - May 24, 2008
For the game?
Or do you have more horrifying things for me to see?
Robert Lintott - May 24, 2008
Something more horrifying than this shit-ass excuse for a team trying to beat a very beatable Yankees team?
I find that hard to believe. Can you tell that I am in the “Anger” stage of dealing with the 2008 season?
thewyrm - May 24, 2008
A, D, C, E, B + Rays Defense
HoRam 4 Cy Young.
ThundaPC - May 24, 2008
Is it okay that I wanted none of them?
Sec 108 - May 24, 2008
D, C, A, B, E
Wow, what a pile of garbage.
Gomez - May 24, 2008
D, A, B, C, E
Go Horacio Ramirez!
CKremer - May 24, 2008
D,A,B,C,E
I think I need to take up heroin.
thejew4u - May 24, 2008
D, A, E, C, B
DAMellen - May 24, 2008
What we have learned from this:
LL’ers do not really recognise that walks are worse than fly balls
Graham MacAree - May 24, 2008
I keyed on Ball% and GB%
docking pitcher B for his relatively high LD%
Gomez - May 24, 2008
Ignoring strikeouts?
Graham MacAree - May 24, 2008
Not quite
My top guy was so in fact because of his good Swing% coupled with relatively better ratios elsewhere, but since K’s only account for a handful of outs, I gave precedence to the other factors.
Gomez - May 24, 2008
Ks are 25% of all outs.
Graham MacAree - May 24, 2008
So 75% of outs come from balls in play
Gomez - May 24, 2008
How does Ball% translate to BB%?
Also how does Swinging% translate to K%?
Edgar for Pres - May 24, 2008
Pretty well. I'm pretty sure I listed the numbers in some of the past articles I wrote concerning pitching
but not only to they correlate pretty well with Ks and BBs they’re far more stable year over year and are generally leading variables if you’re familiar with the economic term.
Matthew - May 24, 2008
D, C, A, E, B
dbroncos31 - May 24, 2008
D A E B C
Robert - May 24, 2008
D C E A B
OlSalty - May 24, 2008
D A C E B
Corco - May 24, 2008
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