Back around Halloween, I thought of putting up a list of relief pitchers whom I thought had a pretty good chance of turning into “pumpkins” in 2009–a more extreme version of regression to the mean; these were guys who had Cinderella seasons in 2008 but didn’t have much of a previous MLB track record to [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Candidates for Pumpkin
Posted in Pumpkin Watch 2009, tagged Craig Breslow, Grant Balfour, Hong-Chih Kuo, Peter Moylan on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
on Jeff Suppan, #1 starter (and playoff fail)
Posted in Milwaukee Brewers, tagged Jeff Suppan, Milwaukee Brewers on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not worried. The rankings of 1-5 starters, in the first place, are more for us to determine the skill of pitchers rather than where their managers actually have them slotted in the rotation. Just because he’s starting Opening Day doesn’t make him the best starter; it just makes him the guy Ken Macha thought [...]
