Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 28, 2003
Out Foxed
Craig Damon writes with this interesting observation:
Just a quick observation. Grady Little needs to not pitch Chad Fox following Pedro. Its not the Chad Fox is bad, his stuff just looks too hittable when batters have been trying to adjust to Pedro all day. Consider the following appearances:
                  G  IP  ER  W+H    WH/9    ERA
after Pedro       5  4    4   11    2.75   9.00
not after         5  5.1  0    7    1.31   0.00
More evidence? Fox's only good appearance in a game started by Pedro was the game that wasn't really Pedro. When Pedro had bad stuff (his 10 run game), Fox pitched a perfect inning. His next best outing was 4 base runners in 1 2/3 innings. McNamara never figured out that Calvin Schiraldi could not pitch after Clemens. He was perfect in save opportunities (until the W.S.) following other starters, but blew over half his save opportunities following Clemens. Both learned the same pitches from the same college coach and were about the same size. Schiraldi had good stuff, but looked too much like a tired Clemens. Hopefully Grady Little (or the Red Sox brain trust) will figure this one out real soon.
Yes, if you were going to replace Clemens with someone who pitched like Clemens, you'd want someone who throws even faster. It's an interesting theory, and I wonder what other people think of it?
Posted by David Pinto at 10:16 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)