Why the Mariners took him here: Cijntje was one of the hottest names on draft boards in the final weeks ahead of Sunday, and he's going to a franchise that has done very well at developing starting pitchers in recent years. Yes, being a switch-pitcher has garnered ...
The formula for finding ERA is: 9 x earned runs / innings pitched. If a pitcher exits a game with runners on base, any earned runs scored by those runners will count against him. ERA should be an ideal evaluation of pitchers. The goal of pitching is to prevent runs from scoring, and...
pitchers of all time, a right-hander who is likely to be inducted into the Hall of Fame and another left-hander who recently won a Cy Young Award. But despite those résumés and the past successes of others, the starting pitchers accounted for just 65⅔ innings pitched over the seven ...
While a 12-pitcher limit could incentivize teams to let starting pitchers go deeper into games, it would add more stress to bullpens. It also could prompt teams to shuttle their middle relievers from the majors to the minor leagues even more — regardless of the...
of the Shohei Ohtani contract. The Philadelphia Phillies signed their ace to a three-year, $162 million contract before the season season that officially kicked in beginning in 2025. Wheeler becomes the fifth starting pitcher to land a contract with more than $40 million in average annual value...
If you want to quibble, then Marquez is probably the least likely to justify top-tier status, especially since his first opponent in the scoring period just roughed him up drastically, to the tune of eight earned runs over 5.1 innings pitched (IP) at Wrigley, the Cubs pushing his season ...
The current average four-seam fastball velocity from starting pitchers is 93.7 mph. That's a full 2 mph more thanthe league averagefrom 15 years ago. And yet, we have seen a bunch of starters this year buck the trend of increased velocity and still put up fantastic results. The premier ...
= Primary Pitcher. This Pitcher is not starting but will pitch multiple innings after the starter. How to Use MLB Starting Lineups for MLB Betting With MLB being a daily sport, the bulk of starting lineups may remain the same each day. When there are changes though, that can lead to unex...
Stanek has been consistently successful in short stints. He’s pitched 382 1/3 innings and logged a 3.53 ERA, fanning a very strong 27.6% of opponents against a less palatable 11.6% walk rate (about three percentage points north of average). Stanek has technically “started” 56 games in ...
There is not much surprise on the Phils' roster. The team elected to keep Cristian Pache over Jake Cave, who wastraded to the Colorado Rockieslast Sunday. Yunior Marte, Luis Ortiz and Connor Brogdon will be in the bullpen. Pitchers Orion Kerkering and Taijuan Walker will begin the season ...