Comments on: SP Getting Off To A Bad Start http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10726 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: TheGoof http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10726/comment-page-1#comment-106331 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:21:15 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10726#comment-106331 Gullet, Morris, McDowell and Wang's teams made the World Series in that year. So don't draw too many conclusions about what it does to the team.

]]> By: T http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10726/comment-page-1#comment-106327 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:09:16 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10726#comment-106327 Very interesting names on that list. Of course, at the beginning of the season, you just throw your supposed horses out there regardless. April 1973 was the beginning of the Steve Blass implosion.

]]> By: psychump http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10726/comment-page-1#comment-106239 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:42:03 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10726#comment-106239 Wow, I can remember Giant's hurler Ron Bryant getting shelled every time out it seems at the beginning of the season when I was a kid in 1974. We were shocked he didn't win the Cy Young award in '73 when he was the N.L's only twenty game winner with 24!!! We were sure he was going to make the voters pay! Not!

]]> By: Chuck http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10726/comment-page-1#comment-106231 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:47:43 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10726#comment-106231 A little thought to those who believe Bill James invented baseball.

Pitching today is the worst it's ever been in the history of the game.

Offense and defense isn't far behind.

]]> By: Neil L. http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10726/comment-page-1#comment-106206 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:53:04 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10726#comment-106206 @13
Ah, J.B., a trip down memory lane! Oh for another finesse, control, starting LHP with a great pick off move like Jimmy Key on the Jays' current roster.

]]> By: Neil L. http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10726/comment-page-1#comment-106205 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:48:40 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10726#comment-106205 @12
Hey, three Boston starters have a shot at the list.

Hughes is still leading a charmed life. The Yankees are giving him 6.67 RPG again this year in his starts, although one X-inning game.

His ERA only puts him in the middle of the list, but then again everything is magnified in New York, isn't it? Nothing is as good as it seems in NY and nothing is as bad as it seems in NY

]]> By: J. B. Rainsberger http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10726/comment-page-1#comment-106204 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:48:11 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10726#comment-106204 Man, do I ever remember 1986. Key and Stieb. I can look it up, but if I recall, Key gave up 5 ER on one out in his first start that season.

]]> By: Sam Hicks http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10726/comment-page-1#comment-106202 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:15:16 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10726#comment-106202 John Lackey has a chance to do this in his next start.

]]> By: PhilsPhan http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10726/comment-page-1#comment-106185 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:47:24 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10726#comment-106185 Cancel that, he went six against washington

]]> By: PhilsPhan http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10726/comment-page-1#comment-106184 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:46:23 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10726#comment-106184 Joe Blanton may very well join this list Sunday

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