Who has been the Mets best pitcher thus far?

by grozzy on May 22, 2007 11:58 AM EDT Comment 6 comments

Before the season I predicted Ollie would be. He, Glavine and Maine have all been very good, and Sosa has been quite good lately as well. I absolutely love watching Ollie pitch and am very happy that Peterson has been able to turn him around.

As a Tigers fan I would love to see us face him in the World Series, though I'd be scared to face him as well.

What do you all think?

Poll

Who has been the best starting pitcher?

Glavine

11 votes

El Duque

2 votes

Maine

15 votes

Perez

19 votes

Pelfrey

0 votes

Sosa

0 votes

Vargas

0 votes

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so far?

Maine has to get the nod over Perez and Glavine up to this point in the season, though there's every reason to believe he'll regress significantly over the rest of the year. I think there's at least some reason to hope that Perez might end the year as the Mets' best pitcher if he continues going on the track he's on right now. Glavine is a model of consistency, but nowhere near an ace, and any of the young guys who steps up and stays good should be able to wrest the #1 starter's spot (in effect if not in name) from him by the end of the year. Though it will remain a rotation without a "true ace" it has every chance to be a very good one 1 through 5 over the course of a full year.

by anonymous on May 22, 2007 1:51 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Starters

Average game score:

            Gs  GS  Hi  Lo
            --------------
Glavine     52  10  63  42
Maine       57   9  79  32
Perez       57   8  79  33
Hernandez   60   5  72  28
Pelfrey     50   6  51  19
Sosa        63   3  73  58

Gs = Average game score
GS = Games started
Hi = High game score
Lo = Low game score

by Eric Simon on May 22, 2007 4:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

source?

Eric, what's your source for these? I'm always seeking up-to-date sources for the more exotic SABR stats (i.e. beyond the ones ESPN reports) online.

by anonymous on May 22, 2007 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

GameScores

You can get game scores in a couple of places. The first (and the freest) is at ESPN.com. Their boxscores always include the gamescore for the starting pitchers, and you can get all of a single pitcher's gamescores via the Game Log link on their profile page. I used Baseball-Reference's inimitable Play Index (baseball-reference.com/pi), which has game logs that can be summed with a couple of mouse clicks, thus auto-calculating the average gamescores instead of having to do them yourself. Of course, if you can't bother to copy the data down accurately (as I did with Pelfrey's average gamescore), then there's not much any site can do to help you.

by Eric Simon on May 23, 2007 9:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pelfrey

That number for Pelfrey can't be right can it? If his HIGH is only 51, and he has a low of 16, how could his average possibly be 50? I don't have a way to look them up right now, but surely that number is off.

by Mikeybags84 on May 23, 2007 2:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs