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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Starting Pitching is one third of baseball… why do we give them a full win?
Keith Law has a great article (may be insider):
For the purposes of this thought exercise, we’ll just say that the starting pitcher’s share of “The Pie of Responsibility” for a team win in any particular game is less than 30 percent.In other words, the idea of giving a “win” to the pitcher even though the majority of the credit for the win goes to other players on his team is misguided and outdated. It imparts no meaningful information to us about the pitcher’s individual performance because there’s so much noise—run support, defense, bullpen, manager, luck—clouding the issue.Pitcher wins apply a team outcome to an individual player in a sport where no one individual player can win a game.
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