THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Monday, March 28, 2011

Leverage Observations

Good stuff from Steve, giving us the lay of the land.

With regards to the age thing, I’d like to see a corresponding line that shows the WPA/LI of the pitchers, because I would presume the older pitchers (those allowed to pitch in MLB) must be the really good pitchers.  Nonetheless, I think the point would still remain that a young pitcher is not going to put thrown into the fire too quickly.