Quality pitching
One of the most debated statistics in baseball is the quality start. Pitchers are credited with a quality start if they go at least six innings and give up three earned runs or less. That means you can have a quality start and a 4.50 ERA for the game. If a pitcher needs his offense to score five runs to win the game, then is it really a quality start?
In the Frontier League, a 4.50 ERA for a starter is good in hitter-friendly places like Gateway and River City but a recipe for disaster in spacious parks like Traverse City and Evansville.
Still, the quality start is something interesting to track over the course of the season. At the risk of being negative, here are the quality starts for Frontier League teams in 2007:
44 - Windy City
39 - Evansville
38 - Florence
38 - Gateway
38 - Kalamazoo
38 - Washington
37 - Rockford
37 - Southern Illinois
36 - Traverse City
31 - Slippery Rock
29 - River City
28 - Chillicothe
In the Frontier League, a 4.50 ERA for a starter is good in hitter-friendly places like Gateway and River City but a recipe for disaster in spacious parks like Traverse City and Evansville.
Still, the quality start is something interesting to track over the course of the season. At the risk of being negative, here are the quality starts for Frontier League teams in 2007:
44 - Windy City
39 - Evansville
38 - Florence
38 - Gateway
38 - Kalamazoo
38 - Washington
37 - Rockford
37 - Southern Illinois
36 - Traverse City
31 - Slippery Rock
29 - River City
28 - Chillicothe
posted by Chris Dugan at
9:03 AM
2 Comments:
Chris, No disrespect to you here but, right now with all the fuss about the Classless Things, er, Wild Losers, or whatever one chooses to call them, I really don't care much about anything that has to do with the Frontier League!
I must say that you are a lot more gracious than I would be when it comes to writing ANYTHING about this bush league!
It shows that you have a lot more class than they.
Ron Wilson
6th out of 12 teams. This sounds like a positive comment to me. Perhpaps you will now be in their good graces. I believe you and Bob Gregg called it like they see it good or bad. Many times Bob talks about a play or situation, for example, he has to take a pitch and the player swings away. In this as many other cases, it is not the player, but the coaching he is referring to in regard to critical comments.
If the OR did not report and Nobody broadcast the games, I wonder what the attendence would be? Management would be lucky to make their own payroll, not including the payroll of the players, and would not have enought money to travel to the away final game in the champion series. (was this the case?)
What other paper would report on the Things? The Pittsburgh papers-no way. Perhaps the players would grant interview to weekly papers such as Bentleyville, or Claysville since they would only be verbally challenged once a week!
Who else would broadcast the games?
KDKA-just kidding.
The Things and their management have killed the golden goose that has keep them going for 6 years.
No lets all buy season tickets!!!!
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