The Yankees “Six Starters,” Recently
Posted by Steve L. on September 5th, 2011 · Comments (10)
Check out these numbers.
- A.J. Burnett’s last 20 starts: 6.07 ERA in 115.6 IP
- Phil Hughes’ last 8 games (7 starts): 5.82 ERA in 38.6 IP
- Bartolo Colon’s last 11 starts: 4.90 ERA in 60.6 IP
- Freddy Garcia’s last 12 starts: 2.89 ERA in 71.6 ERA
- Ivan Nova’s last 7 starts: 3.45 ERA in 47 IP
- CC Sabathia’s last 6 starts: 4.75 ERA in 41.6 IP
Seeing these, what do you think of the Yankees chances this October?
Meaningless stats unless you put them up against the comparable figures for potential opponents. Let’s see how the Red Sox, Rangers, and Tigers starters are faring. (And, BTW, there is no reason to go beyond the top four — no team starts more than four int he play-offs.)
I agree….before trying to make a point why don’t you post the recent starts of the other AL teams in the playoffs. Also why would you show the last 6 CC starts and then the last 20 of Burnett…in order to call it “Recent” starts I would think that would be a pitchers last 5 or so starts which is about a month worth of starts.
Yeah Steve, I plan on watching and hoping for the best. I’ve seen a pitching staff with Mussina, Clemens, Wells and Pettite get bounced out of the playoffs. I don’t really get what you expect people to say here. Raise their giant Yankee foam finger and say: they are going to win it all, YAY!!!!!
I just feel this is all about you telling us how you just knew they were going to get bounced, so this is the setup on your part. Let’s see if you link back up to this post. My money is that you do. You don’t lose here either.
If they win it all, then you’ll celebrate. If they lose, then you’ll be doing your usual “I told you so”.
Let’s say this, let’s say the Yanks go to the world series and pitch awesome up to the series. When they get to the world series against the Brewers, the Brewers light up the Yankees starters. Are you going to say “i told you so”?
How will you measure success this post-season?
Doesn’t staff ERA count? And team offense? If I’m a fan of other teams that are playoff bound, I wouldn’t want to play the Yankees, best of 5 or 7….
I guess I’m the only one who remembers the post-seasons of 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
The Yanks were 6th, 9th, 6th, and 8th in staff ERA in 2004-5-6-7.
This year, they’re 4th, and 1st in ERA+ (adjusted ERA), by a significant margin now.
Oh, and for the last time, if they top 4 just stay healthy, Hughes’ and AJ’s ERA don’t matter, because they won’t be starting. And if CC’s post-season ERA is really going to be 4.75, they’re not winning anything anyway.
Oh, and you can win the post-season with two good starters and a decent #3.
Happened a number of times.
Steve L. wrote:
Was yesterday just like today for you? And in every series, except for 2006, I can think of some bad luck that happened that changed the outcome. Whether it’s Tony Clark’s ground rule double, Sheffield and Bubba Crosby running into each other, or the midges in 2007. Basically, in the playoffs, absolutely anything can happen. You want to make this out to be about just the pitching. What if the pitching is great but the hitting is awful?
The Phillies had the best pitching staff going into the playoffs last year, and they ended up losing to the Giants.
Evan, agreed! If CC is going to pitch to that ERA then are chances are going to suck.
Garcia wrote:
Randy Johnson taking an epidural before game 3 doesn’t count?