Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 18, 2008
Down on Mussina

Replacement Level Yankees Weblog wonders if Mussina is done:

According to his page at baseball-reference.com, Mike Mussina has thrown 318 pitches so far in 2008. 212 of them have been strikes, which on the surface seems decent. But here's the scary part. Of those 318 pitches, batters have only swung and missed at 11 pitches (5%). That's an average of under 3 per game, and it's going to make it very difficult for Mussina to have sustained success unless something changes. Even Chien-Ming Wang who supposedly can't K anyone is at 7% this year and was at 11% and 12% in 2006 and 2007 respectively.

Joba's going to be joining the rotation sooner rather than later.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:19 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
Comments

I have no idea why they reupped him for 2 years last yearfor like 12M a year. Not only does he throw BP even when he's sorta on he can't go past 6 innings which is killing the pen.

Posted by: Bandit at April 18, 2008 10:26 AM

Before Marvin Miller....a guy like Moose would have retired 3 years ago.

Posted by: Leco at April 18, 2008 06:13 PM
Post a comment









Remember personal info?