Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Loving the Pitcher's Mound - Chart

Here's a list of the "top four" in pitches-per-inning, which is really not a stat you want to lead the league in.

Basically what it means is your defense hates you, your arm hates you, and your bullpen never knows when the hell they've got to be ready because in any given inning you could implode and/or your arm might explode.

Here they are.  Going deep in games seems to be secondary to these guys.  Not surprisingly, none of them are even in the top fifteen in total pitches (Scherzer is #16), probably because they're at 100 pitches before the fifth inning.

Pitcher Team P/IP IP/Start WHIP ERA Quote their arm, never more
Max Scherzer DET 18.5 5 1/3 1.59 5.88 MAX-imum effort a little less often please!
Randy Wolf MIL 18.5 5 1/2 1.70 6.05 Howwwwwwwwwwwwwl!
Ubaldo Jimenez CLE 18.3 5 2/3 1.69 5.31 You throwing more balls than strike!
Tim Lincecum SF 18.1 5 1/2 1.52 5.83 Timmy, you're freaking me out!