It's been a couple of weeks since I last published the Leaders & Laggards series, so let's take our first post-All-Star Break look at our favorite lucky and unlucky pitchers. With the season about 64% complete, one would expect these lists to start stabilizing, the lucky guys regressing closer to   more...
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Cyril Morong of 'Beyond the Boxscore' created two 15 player lists, one of pitchers who improved from the 2005 to 2006, the other of players who declined. He used a statistic called RSAA which means "the amount of runs that a pitcher saved vs. what an average pitcher would have allowed. It is   more...
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Does the Quality Start stat really matter? If you look further into the numbers, you might be surprised at what you see, from these so called "Quality Starts"
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Game 1 - Barry Zito vs. Nate Robertson. Ztio only pitched one game this season against the Tigers. Despite taking the loss, he pitched well, 7.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 4 BB, 3 K. Bless You Boys has the expected Tigers lineup and their career averages versus Barry Zito. The Tigers could be in for a long   more...
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Put your on your dork hats. David Gassko of Hardball Times lists the 20 luckiest and unluckiest pitchers using a statistic known as LIPS, Luck Independent Pitching Statistics."Essentially, the idea behind both DIPS 3.0 and LIPS is that a lot of luck goes into a pitcher's performance, as measured   more...
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Remember last year when four of the Tigers starting pitchers (Verlander, Rogers, Bonderman, Robertson) made it through the entire season without once heading to the DL...yeah, that's really rare. Rogers is already hurt and and the added innings from last year's postseason and subsequent shorter   more...
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PREGAME: It will be Nate Robertson and Daniel Cabrera. Cabrera isn't on pace to walk over 100 batters for the first time in history. But he's still walking 4 batters per nine innings. Cabrera typically posted above average K's numbers in his career, but now he's only fanning 5 per nine   more...
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PREGAME: Another day game on Fox, another Twins starter the Tigers struggle against. This time it's Scott Baker.Nate Robertson is on the mound for Detroit. He went 9 innings of excellent work against the Mariners. But the start prior to that the Twins handed him his worst start of the year   more...
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PREGAME: Cliff Lee is one of the best in the AL this year. Nate Robertson has been one of the worst - at least in terms of ERA and hits allowed and batting average allowed.Sorry it's a short post today. There's some other news going downDET @ CLE, Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Game   more...
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A recap of last night's Game 3.
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Barry Zito, Anthony Reyes, Edwin Jackson, Mike Pelfrey, and Nate Robertson.
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With the second half now in full swing, FIO staff writer Lou Poulas takes a look at some of the big surprises (and disappoints) from baseball's first half of the season and discusses whether or not these trends hold substance. Always using great raw data to support his arguments, Poulas puts   more...
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Game 1 [10/11] - Barry Zito vs. Nate Robertson, in Oakland, 7:00 pm CSTZito and Robertson have been announced as the Game One starters. Zito gets the nod as the veteran on the A's staff, and Robertson gets the ball because Kenny Rogers' relief appearance in the final regular season game meant Nate   more...
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Rotogod here. People have begun sending messages asking me about their fantasy baseball teams in 2008. Today, I'll be digging through the mail bag in the hopes of helping some of you all at home out. Let's get it on.
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Notes from a Ballgame: World Series Game 1- Interesting that Buck mentions how Jim Edmonds gets a shot of novocaine in his foot before every game. This is in direct contradiction to what he reported during the NLCS, when he snickered at "the media" for reporting that Edmonds received these shots on   more...
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