His 30.1% K-BB% is actually tops among qualified pitchers this year. ERA estimators like his 3.07 FIP and 2.41 SIERA suggest he’d still be having great results even with some regression in the luck department. Losing that kind of performance would be a blow for any club. The Reds are ...
Revenge mode suits J-Rod well with HR robbery vs. YanksMLB Pipeline See which prospects made big jumps on the freshly updated Top 100 list What to expect from MLB's No. 15 overall prospect Rushing in Majors Diamonds in the rough: 30 of the best prospect finds -- one for each team Re...
Sabathia was one of the Majors’ best pitchers for much of his 19-year career, and he amassed the totals he needed to get in on the first ballot. The left-hander finished with 251 career wins and 3,093 strikeouts during his time with Cleveland, Milwaukee and New York. He won the 200...
"If this is how Martinez exits baseball, it will be an unfortunate ending for one of the best pitchers to play the game." It was, but maybe it was the right ending after all. Pedro was among the greatest of all time, nobody denies it. He had some of his biggest moments against ...
With so much talent and payroll flexibility, the Orioles can basically do anything they want this offseason. They can make their version of the Verlander or Cole trade. They can sign a couple of free agent pitchers (if ownership is willing to spend money) and let all the youn...
Top Pitchers:Ryan Helsley, Giovanny Gallegos, JoJo Romero The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball franchise in St. Louis, Missouri, who compete in the National League of Major League Baseball. The new Busch Stadium has been their home park since 2006. With origins as one of the ...
As a speedy right-handed hitter, Rodríguez did not suffer greatly from shifts. (He saw them 8% of the time.) But with pitchers now required to work faster (less recovery time between intense effort), more balls expected in play and an expected higher success rate of stealing bases, his...
WAR is Wins Above Replacement. fWAR is short for Fangraphs WAR. This installment features a lot of iconic guys, some of the greatest to ever do it. Unless I counted wrong, there are 21 Hall of Famers on this quiz, with 5 more on the ballot currently. There are even a few guys here...
wins above replacement 4 with Tommy John surgery Of course, some have struggled early in their returns. Most notably, that group includes a quartet of pitchers (Shelby Miller, Collin McHugh, David Price and Joe Smith) and Brewers outfielder Lorenzo Cain, who was hitting just .154 beforegoing...
The only left-handed pitchers in the Hall of Fame with an ERA as high as Valenzuela’s are Herb Pennock (3.60), whose career began in 1912, and Tom Glavine (3.54), who pitched through the steroid era. Of the 15 left-handed Major League pitchers in the Hall Fame, only Lefty Gomez ...