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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Saves and innings
By Tangotiger, 05:11 PM
Dave Smith of Retrosheet posted some interesting data, which I simply aggregated as:
IP 1.0- 1.1.2 2.0+ 1.0- 1.1.2 2.0+
Gossage 117 68 125 38% 22% 40%
Sutter 112 58 130 37% 19% 43%
Smith 309 75 94 65% 16% 20%
Fingers 140 66 135 41% 19% 40%
Quiz 84 40 120 34% 16% 49%
Eck 284 78 28 73% 20% 7%
Hoffman 446 48 7 89% 10% 1%
The first set is the number of saves at 1 inning or less, 1.1 or 1.2 innings, and 2+ innings. The next set is the percentages.
This is the number of innings pitched, while picking up a save:
593 Smith
547 Fingers
505 Hoffman
487 Gossage
478 Rivera
473 Sutter
432 Eck
422 Quiz
And here’s the Mariano data:
Rivera had 11 saves where he pitched at least 2 innings,
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/N49C
345 of at most 1 inning
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/fJcZ
and 87 in-between:
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/KFgv
PI also lets you sort through the playoffs, which I didn’t do here.