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July 19th vs. The Tigers Week 15 – 2009
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?”

  1. Raf Says:

    Kevin Brown was better than many people gave him credit for.

  2. Corey Says:

    and brown was also juicing

  3. Steve Lombardi Says:

    Brown would probably say that Ford was scuffing the baseball…

  4. Raf Says:

    Link to Fangraphs article on Kevin Brown

  5. Raf Says:

    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.

  6. MJ Says:

    Kevin Brown was better than many people gave him credit for.
    ———
    Do you mean in general or in New York?

  7. MJ Says:

    MJ wrote:

    Kevin Brown was better than many people gave him credit for.
    ———
    Do you mean in general or in New York?

    PS – I meant that as an honest question, I wasn’t trying to be a jerk.

  8. Raf Says:

    MJ wrote:

    Kevin Brown was better than many people gave him credit for.
    ———
    Do you mean in general or in New York?

    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.

  9. Corey Says:

    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?)

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