Jul 19
I was just playing around with the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia and I set the filters on the sort career pitching stats function to:
GAMES STARTED >= 400, and ERA >= 1 vs. the league average,
and BASERUNNERS/9 IP <= 1.9 vs. the league average
with NEUTRAL WINS displayed only and INNINGS PITCHED displayed only
and this is what I got:
Pitcher RSAA GS ERA N_W BR/9 IP IP 1 Whitey Ford 321 438 1.10 214 1.41 3171 2 Kevin Brown 304 476 1.03 218 1.50 3256.1
If you're not sure what any of these stats are, click here.
I never would have thought of Kevin Brown and Whitey Ford as being on the same page...would you have?
9 Responses to “No, It Can’t Be? Whitey & Brown? Really?”
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July 19th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Kevin Brown was better than many people gave him credit for.
July 20th, 2009 at 10:14 am
and brown was also juicing
July 20th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Brown would probably say that Ford was scuffing the baseball…
July 20th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Link to Fangraphs article on Kevin Brown
July 20th, 2009 at 11:01 am
He shouldn’t have punched that wall in Baltimore. I’m still annoyed that he did that. Up to that point he was having a decent season, despite missing time, so I’m not even sure why he was so pissed.
Just a weird season. That was the first time I’ve heard of a player missing time with a parasite, and I think the Yanks had two in Brown and Giambi.
July 20th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Kevin Brown was better than many people gave him credit for.
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Do you mean in general or in New York?
July 20th, 2009 at 11:35 am
MJ wrote:
PS – I meant that as an honest question, I wasn’t trying to be a jerk.
July 20th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
MJ wrote:
In NY. He was having a solid season for the Yanks, despite the time he missed with injury. Even the start that he had where he punched the wall, he did well, I think he threw a quality start that game. At the end of the day, he posted a 4.09 ERA (110 ERA+) to go with a 4.03 FIP.
In 2005, he posted a 3.61 FIP, which is outstanding considering that he posted a 6.50 ERA.
Unfortunately, his performance in the 2004 ALCS overshadows the work he did as a Yankee.
July 20th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
the thing that struck me with Brown on the yanks was that he could never get through the 1st without giving up a run…and that aggravated the crap out of me. I especially found a dislike for the fact that they simulated a 1st inning for him before starts toward the end (like how they did with Joba that, what was it 1 time?)