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Thursday, April 01, 2010
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“They say: ’What would his true ERA be like? What would his fielding independent percentages be?’ All these stupid things,’’ Lincecum said. “I don’t know if they’re stupid, I just don’t quite understand them all yet. They’re there and we’re going to become more aware of them as the years come. I think I’ll become more educated on it because they are becoming more and more important.’’
Ironically, what ERA actually does is answer this question: “What would his true runs allowed average be like, if we can reconstruct the inning without errors”. So, I can see why he would think that FIP is stupid, since ERA does a similar stupid thing in trying to ask the same question: “hold these other things constant… what have you got?”
But, Lincecum at least says that he’s got an open mind. That’s all an educator can ask for.
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