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Baseball Musings
March 17, 2008
K-GB

Rich Lederer at the Baseball Analysts looks at the relationship between strikeout and groundball rates among starting pitchers. Rich graphs the two rates against each other and groups pitchers by quadrant. What I think is interesting are the outliers on the high side of strikeouts and ground balls. If you take the five pitchers with the highest strikeout rates, you get a rotation of:

  • Erik Bedard
  • Scott Kazmir
  • Johan Santana
  • Jake Peavy
  • A.J. Burnett

If you do the same for the five highest GB% pitchers:

  • Derek Lowe
  • Fausto Carmona
  • Tim Hudson
  • Brandon Webb
  • Felix Hernandez

With the exception of Webb, the high K rotation is all aces, while the high ground ball rotation is mostly number two starters.


Posted by David Pinto at 12:27 PM | Statistics | TrackBack (0)
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AJ Burnett the only pitcher in baseball who strikes out more than 25% of the batters he faces and posts a 50% GB rate or better. King Felix should be joining him soon.

This is a cool plot as it does demonstrate the 4 basic types of pitcher: Ace, Dominant, Passable, and 'No surprise seeing Josh Towers here'.

Posted by: Andrew at March 17, 2008 03:44 PM

king felix will make you eat your #2... and like it.

Posted by: skoorbo at March 20, 2008 12:23 PM
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