Kepner is a talented writer but kind of infamous for his sabermetric skepticism, good for him writing that in the Times. Another solid writeup about Greinke from Sports Illustrated – his response when asked what he’s been up to this offseason:

“I’ve been playing this World of Warcraft game a lot.”

"That’s pretty much how I pitch, to try to keep my FIP as low as possible" —Zack Grienke

and in true Moneyball fashion, Omar will exploit the market defiency: as everyone else in the league has teams full of good baseball players, Omar will sign guys who flaunt how much they suck like Jeff Francouer.

maybe its a Royals player (definitely not FO) thing

and actually played the game the right way, they’d win a few games.

The blowout vote is an encouraging sign that even the flat earth society in the MSM are starting to get it, at least a little. I’m not sure if they were using FIP while casting their ballots, but at least they got past wins and dug deeper.

But it’s a THT stat, just fYI.

The only reason Greinke won is because his primary competition was on a similarly out of contention team. If the Mariners had been closer to the playoffs, or CC had an ERA closer to 3.00, they would have won in a landslide.

This is false hope.