3 lucky pitchers

1. Joe Saunders, LAA – Saunders has been a lucky pitcher for a while which makes me wonder whether he does something that is accounted for by the statistics I’m looking at, but I don’t think Saunders is that special. He still doesn’t have great control (although this has been an area of improvement), he [...]

Underperforming pitchers – Ian Snell, Pirates

A couple of days ago I was reading a column on Fan Graphs that discussed effective W-L records. Effective W-L records are calculated using WPA (winning percentage added), an event based statistic that takes into account greatly a pitchers ability to prevent hits, instead of his ability to strike guys out, prevent walks and home [...]