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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Do high-strikeout pitchers have longer careers?

By Tangotiger, 10:56 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.

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