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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Do high-strikeout pitchers have longer careers?

By Tangotiger, 09:56 AM

Gassko takes a look. 

I’m not crazy about removing pitchers at extremes, based on the thing you are actually selecting from.  It creates a selective sampling issue.  As David said, this isn’t the last word, so I’d treat this study as a first pass look at it.

(13) Comments • 2008/02/20 • Sabermetrics • Forecasting • Pitchers
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