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
If you are a media member and would like a review copy of The Book, please contact Kevin Cuddihy of Potomac Books.

Buy The Book from Amazon

MOST RECENT ARTICLES
MAIL : You ask | We say

Advanced


THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Filter posts by...

 

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

The babblefest of Jack Morris, best pitcher of the decade

By Tangotiger, 04:11 PM

The best pitcher of the 1980s.

I’m sure you’ve heard that plenty, right?  About Jack Morris?  Just take some arbitrary 10-year period, preferably bordered by round numbers, like “80s”, and you have your test of greatness.  Why not “pitcher of the decade”, and take something like 1976-1985?  Or 1986-1995?

Anyway, let’s get back to 1980-1989.  In that time period, Jack Morris led the league with 2443.2 innings.  Let’s set the minimum IP qualifier to 80% of that (1955 IP).  We actually get back only 11 pitchers.  Among those pitchers:

Read More

(10) Comments • 2008/11/13 • SabermetricsAwards
Page 1 of 1 pages

Latest...

COMMENTS

Nov 21 17:29
Sabermetric Moves of the 2009 Pre-Season

Nov 22 06:40
The New Triple Crown

Nov 22 06:24
Chance of Scoring by Base/Out, Retrosheet Years

Nov 22 02:48
How good are the Fans in evaluating fielding?

Nov 21 20:13
Runs Produced

Nov 21 19:27
Marcel 2009 is here

Nov 21 16:43
Nate Silver: hero to interviewers

Nov 21 10:57
New BBTN

Nov 20 20:34
ABSO-lutely… not!

Nov 20 19:23
R.I.P. Tom Boswell, sabermetrician; P.A.L.L.(*) Tom Boswell, human being

THREADS

January 02, 2008
The babblefest of Jack Morris, best pitcher of the decade