starting pitching Stories - SB Nation
Derek Lowe Loves Groundballs
If Brandon Webb is the Zeus of big league groundball machines, Derek Lowe must be Hephaestus (or Apollo, if you wish), churning out a higher ratio of grounders to flies than any starting pitcher excep...
Mets Starter SNLVAR By Decade
Back in November, I ran this column on Mets batter VORP by decade. It generated some good debate and interesting dialogue, and prompted a similar list for pitchers. VORP for pitchers is a little wonky...
Mets Make Offer To Lowe
Per Mets.com (and corroborated by the New York Times, the Mets have reportedly extended an offer to Derek Lowe for three years and $36 million. The Times article mentions that Lowe was seeking a fi...
Ben Sheets Or Oliver Perez?
Derek Lowe is the best remaining free agent starting pitcher. Many people still debate whether Oliver Perez or Derek Lowe should be the Mets main target, but there's no contest. Oliver Perez had one s...
Could The Mets Sign Lowe AND Perez?
After they patched a couple of gaping holes in their bullpen, the Mets turned their attention to the starting rotation and smart money had them targeting either Derek Lowe or incumbent Oliver Perez. A...
Surveying The Starter Market
The CHONE projection system now features its own site, complete with individual player pages. It's a neat site and provides rough estimates of each player's value if you do a little defensive guess wo...
Mets Like Wolf, Wolf Likes Mets
Year IP tRA+ 2003 200.0 101 2004 136.2 100 2005 80.0 79 2006 56.2 83 2007 102.2 111 2008 190.1 ...
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