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Newey
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Re: Most Critical Stats for Building a Winning Team <FONT COLOR=BLACK><b>[</font>Reply to #<a href="read.pl?1-4280">4280</a>]</b>
2/21/07, 8:29am
Newey, you're not making any sense.  On the one hand you say that it is obvious (sorry I mispelled it, my Mom, my Aunt, my sister-in-law, and my girlfriend are all English or Reading teachers, and they have forgiven me) that teams should be looking for low ERA pitchers, but on the other hand you go on to defend $100 million in Guraunteed contracts (never said they each got $100 million) given to pitchers with well above league average ERA's.

Thanks for making my point for me.  

And, by the way, Meche, Marquis and Eaton have all pitched the majority of their careers in parks which generally favor the pitchers.  

Also, since when is 5-10%, or the variance between runs allowed and ERA, if I understood your stats correctly, not that meaningful.  If the average team scores 750 runs, that's 38 to 75 runs.  Or how many games a year?     

Do you realize that most of the people who read what you wrote do not understand your stats concerning ERA and runs scored.  And that even more don't care.  KISS! 



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