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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Quality of pitchers by count
I liked this chart here:
count fip
0-2 3.88
1-2 3.90
2-2 3.92
0-1 3.92
1-1 3.94
0-0 3.94
3-2 3.95
2-1 3.96
1-0 3.96
2-0 3.99
3-1 4.00
3-0 4.01
So, the quality of pitchers that find themselves in the 3-0 count is a FIP of 4.01. And those who find themselves in 0-2 counts have a FIP of 3.88.
It’s clear we expected some bias, and in the direction that we see. Now, we know the extent of this bias, which is great stuff from Josh.