THE BOOK cover
The Unwritten Book is Finally Written!
An in-depth analysis of: The sacrifice bunt, batter/pitcher matchups, the intentional base on balls, optimizing a batting lineup, hot and cold streaks, clutch performance, platooning strategies, and much more.
Read Excerpts & Customer Reviews

Buy The Book from Amazon


SABR101 required reading if you enter this site. Check out the Sabermetric Wiki. And interesting baseball books.
MOST RECENT ARTICLES
MAIL : You ask | We say

Advanced


THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Filter posts by...

 

Friday, February 03, 2012

Danks or Garza?  ToMAYto, ToMAHto?

By Tangotiger, 01:36 PM

Same service time, similar in age.  Over the last 4 years, 125 starts for one and 124 for the other.  48-43 for one and 44-41 for the other.  3.77 ERA to 3.72 ERA. 12 innings apart.  One gave up 6 more HR, the other gave up 15 more 2b+3b.  59 more K, but 25 more walks+hit batters.  Even their contracts over their last two years: 9.3MM$ for one and 9.45MM$ for the other.

Danks of course signed that big contract extension which we talked about, with the first year coming in at 8MM$.  It’s no surprise that Garza was going to eventually settle at something a bit above that figure.  (In the Danks thread, I had figured close to 10MM.) He’s not at the Felix/Verlander/JJ/Weaver level, so he wasn’t going to get 13-14MM$.  He’s one level below that, and 9MM$ is right about there.

It’ll be interesting if he ends up signing a 5/65 deal like Danks did to supplant the arb deal.

(1) Comments • 2012/02/03 • SabermetricsPitchers
Page 1 of 1 pages

Latest...

COMMENTS

May 25 19:41
What sabermetrics is NOT

May 25 19:41
Pete Palmer’s new book: Basic Ball

May 25 19:38
“Why Kickstarter works”

May 25 17:32
Largest demonstration in Canadian history?

May 25 16:59
Howard Stern

May 25 15:12
Do pitcher’s reach back for velocity when needed?

May 25 12:51
Chad Curtis

May 25 11:26
Lack of hustle during a game

May 25 10:58
Rooting for laundry

May 25 02:38
NFLPA lawsuit against collusion

THREADS

February 03, 2012
Danks or Garza?  ToMAYto, ToMAHto?