Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 17, 2002
Pirate Pitchers:

The Pittsburgh Pirates with a 3-2 win this afternoon are in first place in the NL Central by a game. Looking at their pitching stats on ESPN.com, I notice that all but 3 of their pitchers have ERA's under 3.00. With a 2.90 ERA, they are more than 2 runs below 2001's ERA of 5.05. Two runs a game, if they could maintain that over a season would be over 300 runs for the season. As a rule of thumb, 10 runs in your favor equals about 1 win, so we're looking at a potential 30 game turnaround based on the pitching. That would give them 92 wins, and certainly keep them in contention in the Central.


Posted by David Pinto at 06:21 PM | Baseball