Comments on: Bert Blyleven

By: #295 Bert Blyleven | Baseball Card Blogs

#295 Bert Blyleven | Baseball Card Blogs — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:19:07 +0000

[...] written tons about Blyleven over at the Stat of the Day blog. Check it out here, here, here, here, and [...]

By: Stat of the Day » Bert Blyleven versus the Hall of Fame

Stat of the Day » Bert Blyleven versus the Hall of Fame — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:34:10 +0000

[...] of pitchers already in the HOF, and there are many sites out there with more info on it (including my previous post on this blog about him.) We’re not talking about someone like Jim Rice or Tony Perez here, whose numbers [...]

By: Stat of the Day » Johan Santana 17 K's in 8 innings

Stat of the Day » Johan Santana 17 K's in 8 innings — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:39:08 +0000

[...] How about my man Bert Blyleven! [...]

By: David in Toledo

David in Toledo — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:51:58 +0000

Bert Blyleven has 339 Bill James win shares. The following pitchers already in the Hall of Fame have fewer: Nolan Ryan, 334; Ferguson Jenkins, 323; Red Ruffing, 322; Don Sutton, 319; Bob Gibson, 317; Eppa Rixey, 315; Ted Lyons and Jim Palmer, 312; Early Wynn, 308; Carl Hubbell, 306, Dennis Eckersley, 301. And that doesn't include the 25 HofF pitchers whose totals are less than 300! Blyleven outranks 36 pitchers who are in the Hall of Fame, and no other pitcher not in the Hall does that (except Clemens and Maddux). D'uh!

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:19:10 +0000

Chris:

PI Pitching Game Finder
Role: Starter, CG
On the left, Team: L
Sorted by: players with games in career

That's it...actually a pretty simple search once you figure it out.

By: Chris J.

Chris J. — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:03:01 +0000

How did you do the most CG losses one?

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:09:03 +0000

I have to believe that Blyleven's Neutral Wins are so much higher than his actual total because he was on a number of poor teams. While it's true he was a member of the Pirates' 1979 championship, as well as the Twins' 1987 championship, he also played for the Twins and Rangers in the 1970s (when they were at best average teams), and the Indians in the early 1980s (anybody seen the movie Major League?)

By: birtelcom

birtelcom — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:50:51 +0000

In his Complete Sabermetric Encyclopedia (a nice supplement to the Play Index, BTW, for those in the market), Lee Sinins includes something called Neutral Wins, which he descries as the projection of the Wins number a pitcher would have reached given average run support applied to the number of decisions he actually had. Blyleven gets 313 Neutral Wins (16th all-time), Fergie Jenkins 291, Tommy John 284, Jim Kaat 282 and Randy Johnson around 277 (I only have the Encyclopedia updated through the end of 2006, at which point the Unit had 272).