http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/15/roger-clemens-and-era/ Technology news, baseball, track and field, and more! Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:15:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/15/roger-clemens-and-era/comment-page-1/#comment-63 owenkellett.info » Blog Archive » Roger Clemens and Cy (Again) Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:13:12 +0000 http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/15/roger-clemens-and-era/#comment-63 [...] Even though I don’t always agree with everything Jayson Stark has to say, I’d have to say he’s dead on in this recent column. If you’ve been paying attention to my site, you might recall that I made a case a while back arguing that Roger Clemens should overwhelmingly win the Cy Young this year. It seems like in this particular domain, Jayson Stark and I are definitely on the same page: And Clemens has made nine starts in which he has given up one earned run or none without getting a win. That’s as many as Carpenter, Willis, Santana and Colon combined. So if Rodrigo Lopez (with a 4.97 ERA) and Mike Maroth (4.82) have more wins than Roger Clemens, shouldn’t it be clear to anyone paying attention that “wins” might be the most overrated individual stat in baseball? Come on. Admit it already. [...] [...] Even though I don’t always agree with everything Jayson Stark has to say, I’d have to say he’s dead on in this recent column. If you’ve been paying attention to my site, you might recall that I made a case a while back arguing that Roger Clemens should overwhelmingly win the Cy Young this year. It seems like in this particular domain, Jayson Stark and I are definitely on the same page: And Clemens has made nine starts in which he has given up one earned run or none without getting a win. That’s as many as Carpenter, Willis, Santana and Colon combined. So if Rodrigo Lopez (with a 4.97 ERA) and Mike Maroth (4.82) have more wins than Roger Clemens, shouldn’t it be clear to anyone paying attention that “wins” might be the most overrated individual stat in baseball? Come on. Admit it already. [...]

]]> http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/15/roger-clemens-and-era/comment-page-1/#comment-32 owenkellett.info » Blog Archive » The Case Against Closers: Part 1 Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:36:38 +0000 http://www.owenkellett.info/2005/08/15/roger-clemens-and-era/#comment-32 [...] As an astute participant in the ever-so-popular game of fantasy baseball, I tend to pay a lot of attention to players’ statistics and how well they correlate to their overall contributions to their teams. In my opinion (and the opinion of many other “stathead” baseball fans and analysts), the traditional fantasy categories are not very accurate indicators of a player’s overall value to his team. I have already alluded to my dissatisfaction with the use of Wins as an important pitcher category in a previous post about Roger Clemens. Today I’d like to talk about a category that is an even worse metric for a pitcher’s overall value: the save. Because there are so many arguments that can be presented against using saves as a pitching statistic, I’m going to present my case in a multi-part series. (Disclaimer: the number of parts in this series is thus far an undetermined amount and could range anywhere from 1 to a lot more than 1) [...] [...] As an astute participant in the ever-so-popular game of fantasy baseball, I tend to pay a lot of attention to players’ statistics and how well they correlate to their overall contributions to their teams. In my opinion (and the opinion of many other “stathead” baseball fans and analysts), the traditional fantasy categories are not very accurate indicators of a player’s overall value to his team. I have already alluded to my dissatisfaction with the use of Wins as an important pitcher category in a previous post about Roger Clemens. Today I’d like to talk about a category that is an even worse metric for a pitcher’s overall value: the save. Because there are so many arguments that can be presented against using saves as a pitching statistic, I’m going to present my case in a multi-part series. (Disclaimer: the number of parts in this series is thus far an undetermined amount and could range anywhere from 1 to a lot more than 1) [...]

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