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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Should Buehrle and CJ Wilson even be mentioned in the same sentence?
I don’t get where this universal love for Buehrle comes from. I listen to MLB radio on XM every day and they constantly talk about the fact that these are the two premier FA starters. Many of the talking heads prefer Buehrle to Wilson and speak of Wilson as a relative unknown (in terms of what you are going to get).
Are you kidding me?
Wilson has been over a half run better in FIP over the last 2 years and most of his projections are even better than that, compared to Buehrle. I have Wilson almost a run better than Buehrle. James, .6. ZIPS has Buehrle as a league average starter in 2012, which I think is generous. And of course because CJ’s post-season as a starter is a little suspect in a grand total of 52 IP, he is considered “questionable” - which is a joke.
To me, this is an example of how the baseball community is still so far behind the sabermetric community in terms of evaluating players (not to mention all I hear all day on the radio is BA, HR, and RBI as a “measure” of a position player’s value and the first thing that comes out of all the talking heads’ mouths when they speak of pitchers is, “He won X games this year,” or he is a 12 or 13 game winner type of pitcher...").