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TophersReds
Another reason not to sign Coco.
Raun Bruenning
Wood only counts as a free agent by definition. If the Cubs don’t sign him, he retires.
The_BiRDS
Kerry Wood really enjoys losing.
FillyPhan
Haha Chad Durbin is on the list, must be getting really thin market in RPs this offseason.
FreshMintt
Damn, Kenley Jansen is a boss.
Steve Parsons
the problem being that strikeout proficiency, per se, is itself not a great indicator of ability to prevent runs – which is the main thing. It’s better to think of K rates as thresholds, rather than some kind of linear correlation with actual effectiveness. Most people know the 4.5/9ip “threshold” but you really get a either diminishing returns for rates above 7.75/9 or at the very top, as both sets of numbers illustrate, you’re going to have problems with sample size (i.e. so few people have the very top rates, you’re really not measuring more than how good or bad a few pitcher’s years were). using K% v. K/9 is *probably* a better measure, but I think there is some discussion as to whether walks at the higher levels are or are not an indication of a proficiency “problem” – that is, for most pitchers, high K rates might even necessitate higher than average walk rates, so measuring K’s against batters faced might distort the way high K-rates are actually generated. Th lists are, in any case very similar top to bottom (if you don’t slice the list at some abitrary point) and the correlation to run prevention is variable enough that the changes in positions between the two lists (all fairly similar) wouldn’t necessarily indicate any actual performance difference in run prevention. It *might* be better to express the number as /9ip even if it is less precise if the number was more easily digested or was closer in its expression to real life events. i.e. in the k/9 the difference ebtween an 8 and a 9 is a K per game. What exactly is the difference between 15.3% and 17.3%? over a game? over a typical season? ( five or six baserunners? how many fewer K’s?) It’s not that we couldn’t as a group of readers *learn* what is good or bad over time, but is the difference enough to justify going away from something that is already expressed in an identifiable way?
FillyPhan
Looks like a giant run-on, what you trying to say?
Steve Parsons
plus he has said that before and then signed elsewhere…re: Wood retiring
Stonehands
Give Madson his 3/24 and Coco his 2/12 so we can get on with the offseason
grownice
They holding up something on you?
The_BiRDS
Um can you enlarge your avartar please?
grownice
As u wish.
phoenix2042
wow robertson had a good year. too bad all those walks have to catch up to him next year…
Peter G
LOL at Chad Durbin being a strikeout pitcher.
Lunchbox45
Haven’t seen Jansen pitch.. is his stuff that filthy??
Shu13
Yes Kenley is nasty when healthy….
thegrayrace
It is. Dodgers future closer. He’ll beat out Guerra, if not this season than next.
Shu13
RP’s w/ .93 K/BB should not be on that list especially at #7…yes his k/9 is 7.3/9 BUT his bb/9 is 7.9/9 AND his h/9 is 7.3/9