fip Stories - Amazin' Avenue
The FIP & the Pendulum: Jaime Garcia
Jaime Garcia burst onto the scene in 2010 with an excellent rookie season that saw him finish third in the National League Rookie of the Year voting. Garcia posted a 2.77 ERA (which was good for a 69 ERA-) with two-to-one strikeout-to-walk ratio. In his first season post-Tommy John surgery, the...
#1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 NL Starting Pitchers In 2011
The blog Metsrospectus had a cool post linked in the FanShots this week. It investigated where R.A. Dickey's 2011 performance would place him in every other MLB team's rotation. It reminded of a post I had run the last few years, which aimed to quantify what makes a #1 through #5 starting pitcher....
Visualizing AL Central Starters: FIP through May 18th
Divisional wOBA and FIP Comparisons - April/May NLE - Hitters | NLE - Pitchers | ALE - Hitters | ALE - Pitchers | ALC - Hitters | ALC - Pitchers (Click to enlarge) The graphic above depicts all AL Central starting pitchers with greater than 40 innings pitched through May 18th. So far, this is...
Visualizing AL East Starters: FIP through May 10th
Divisional wOBA and FIP Comparisons - April/May NLE - Hitters | NLE - Pitchers | ALE - Hitters | ALE - Pitchers (Click to enlarge) Continuing my early-look series by division of hitters and pitchers I present for you AL East starters ranked by FIP. The graphic includes those starters with...
Royals Post-Opening Day Links: Season Previews, Saber Primers, Questions About a Lonely Nation
Royals: Worst Decisions Possible: 2011 - Royals Review Tough day: Royals fall to Angels 4-2 in opener - KansasCity.com 2011 Royals Preview - Royals Authority 14 for 77: Season Predictions White Sox win it all My 2011 predictions | Pine Tar Press The Royals/Braves Blog: Grading the Royals Opening...
Out Of The Blue Clear Sky: SIERA
Before we resume discussing advanced pitching metrics, David Pinto posted that ESPN will being a lot more with advanced statistics on their programming this season. It will be interesting to see how they integrate it: in a separate, brief segment, or in their typical shove-it-down-your-throat...
FIP Explained!
Groundbreaking instructional video from DRaysBay. I always kinda knew that pitchers could scarcely control the luck dragon, but this says it better than I ever could.
What is FIP?
As part of the budding Sabermetrics Primer month, I've begun a video series aimed at explaining a variety sabermetric principles and statistics. The first is FIP: A New ERA, feature below. Watch it and let me know what you think! Also, tell me what other videos you would like to see. Enjoy!
Off Day Filler: #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 NL Starters Thus Far
I wrote a similar post last year. The first paragraph describing the methodology is pulled right from that post. When describing starting pitchers, people often say things like "he's an ace" or "he's a #4 pitcher". A pet peeve of mine is the wrongful labeling of a pitcher to a certain rotation...
Baseball Databank Data Dump, I: FIP Constants and Runs Per Win
Hi. I'm Matt. I write here (occasionally) now. Perhaps I could have picked something a bit more exciting for my first post, but I kept missing stuff, getting busy with other things, and so on. But I think this might be of utility to some people -- I know there were times I've wished I could easily...
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