The murky dozen
Here was the most recent guess about the pitchers who start the year with the team, which came in this post at the end of January: Other candidates 1 Halladay (R) P Aumont (R) 2 Lee (L) T Cloyd (R) 3...
View ArticleFore!
The Phillies are 4-5 through their first nine games of 2013. Relative to the rest of the league, they’ve scored runs at about the same rate they did over the past two years while allowing a lot more so...
View ArticleThat’s my story and I’m sticking to it
So just how bad was it this year? We can all agree that it wasn’t good. But how bad was it? I’d say the Phillies were better than the Marlins in the National League this season. If want to argue for...
View ArticleWorser by far
The point of the last post was that the Phillies were extremely bad in 2013, perhaps better than only the Marlins in the 15-team National League. Today’s point is that relative to the rest of the...
View ArticleJust how much rain is it reasonable to pray for?
In 2013, the Phillie offense was bad and the pitching was worse. Among the pitchers, though, who were worse, the starters or the relievers? Both were really bad, but I think the answer is the relievers...
View ArticleWalking all
This post from January, 2011, pointed out that during the 2010 season the Phillies walked just 416 batters, which was the fewest walks issued by any National League team. Not only was it the best mark...
View ArticleOne direction
Still on walks and how far Phillie pitchers fell in 2013 coming off of four straight years in which they were either the best or second-best team in the league at preventing walks. Here’s the...
View ArticleRate hike
Questions yesterday about whether opposing hitters were more likely to walk in 2013 when Carlos Ruiz was catching for the Phils. That part’s easy — the answer is yes, they were. The harder part is how...
View ArticleDeep impact
In 2013, the total WAR for Phillie pitchers as calculated by Baseball-Reference was 14.2. As I’ve pointed out before, the Phils had two elite pitchers in ’13 in Cole Hamels and Cliff Lee and that duo...
View ArticleHopefully there’s a third site out there somewhere that thinks they won it...
I’ll keep looking. The last post looked at the Baseball-Reference calculated WAR for the top two Phillie pitchers in recent years relative to the accumulated WAR for all pitchers on the team. In this...
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