For pitchers, I like WHIP
Wins and ERA can be misleading.
It's harder to hide from a bad WHIP




On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Beaudoin, John wrote:

> ERA can be one horrendous game or a season of terrible middle relief.
> 
> I think the data just provided (referring to Dice K) shows how an outlier 
> datapoint game throws his ERA out of whack.
> 
> W's are the most important thing.
> 
> Hey, are you going to the game tomorrow?
> 
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Tue Jul 20 20:03:03 2010
> Subject: Re: Sheesh! 
> 
> W&L is just a measure of run support or luck.
> 
> It's meaningless.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Beaudoin, John <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> W's and L's mean more than ERA, don't you think? ERA is a very very very very 
> good 2nd stat to look at.
> 
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Tue Jul 20 17:53:02 2010
> Subject: Re: Sheesh! 
> 
> This is why God gave us states.
> 
> Dice-K ERA: 4.29 
> 
> 4.29 = Meh
> 
> And that sums up his season.
> 
> Dice-K has a long way to go before I'll get excited about seeing him pitch.
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Steve Ouellette <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> That's just not true. Dice K's perceived sins far outweigh the truth.
> 
> On June 7, he threw eight shutout innings.
> 
> That was followed by ...
> 
> 2 runs in 5 IP
> 3 runs in 6 IP
> 4 runs in 5 IP (an ugly 8 hits and 4 bb)
> 2 runs in 6 IP
> and last night, 1 run in 6.7 IP
> 
> Prior to the eight shutout innings on June 7, he had given up ...
> 
> 3 runs in 6.7 IP (no walks!)
> 3 runs in 4.7 IP (2 hits, but 8 walks!)
> 0 runs in 8 IP (1 hit)
> 
> He can still be excruciating to watch, he doesn't go deep into most games and 
> his first innings have been nightmares, but he hasn't had four straight 
> pitiful starts (though three of his first four were bad). In his last nine 
> starts, he's only given up more than three earned runs once (and that was 
> four). Six of them were "quality" starts. 
> 
> Steve O
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Larry Rupp <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm normally the optimist here but last time he had a good game he followed 
> that with 4 straight pitiful ones so until I see some consistency from him 
> he's not getting out of the penalty box with me.  It's nice to see Beckett 
> back which leaves Lackey, Wake, and Dice to fight for the 2 starting spots in 
> a 5 man rotation.
> 
> Sent from Larry's mobile device
> 
> On Jul 20, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Dan DiBiase <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Having basically discounted him this season, preferring to depend on Lester, 
>> Bucky and Lackey, if Dice-K could get
>> on a nice streak like this, what a benefit that would be.
>>  
>> Dan D
>> Central NJ USA
>> 
>> 
>> From: "Beaudoin, John" <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010 11:57:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: Sheesh!
>> 
>> He didn't want to pitch to them. Smart move on his part probably.
>> 
>> He was brilliant.
>> 
>> 
>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>> Sent: Tue Jul 20 08:54:10 2010
>> Subject: RE: Sheesh! 
>> 
>> OK - Admit it.  Dice-K was almost enjoyable to watch last night.  I have 
>> never seen him more efficient.  I actually stayed awake through 7 because I 
>> was enjoying the show.
>>  
>> Funny thing is that he walked only two batters, and both of them were on 4 
>> straight balls.  How do you figure?
>>  
>> Steve G
>>  
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