Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
January 18, 2005
DIPS Ahead

Jay Jaffe at Fultility Infielder has completed a Defense Independent Pitching Statistics (DIPS) study of 2004. Great work as always by Jay with help from Larry Mahnken, whose DIPS worksheet you can download here.

Two columns I particularly like from the study are the Lower/Higher dERA than ERA columns; leader boards that point out who was unlucky and lucky in 2004. Looks like there were a number of Mets in the lucky (higher dERA) column. Leiter, Trachsel, V. Zambrano and Glavine all make the top 10. (Good defense and a tough park?) It also looks like unlucky Todd Van Poppel might be worth a look as a free agent. And of course, there's Derek Lowe, high on the list of unlucky pitchers. The Dodgers are counting on that pendulum to swing back.

Enjoy!


Posted by David Pinto at 10:00 AM | Statistics | TrackBack (1)
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I can explain the "luck" of the Mets' pitchers in two words: Mike Cameron.

Posted by: Vincent at January 18, 2005 05:38 PM

Um, guys, do any of you guys who crunch these numbers WATCH baseball? The Mets were not a good defensive team. In fact, they were arguably one of the worst defensive teams in all of baseball. Matsui was the worst SS in baseball, Piazza arguably the worst 1b, Wigginton and Reyes were average at BEST at their positions (Wright was a late season upgrade), and their OFs besides Cameron were, also, below average. One fleet footed CF does not a good defense make. Sorry - these stats are just plain wrong.

Posted by: David at January 25, 2005 10:31 AM
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