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StanMarsh51
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Been doing this for a few years now out of curiousity, where the goal was to get an aggregate listing of each team's best starter (#1), 2nd best starter (#2), 3rd best starter (#3) for a single season and finding what the average #1, #2, #3 starter looks like.
My goal isn't necessarily to argue whether pitcher X on a team was better than pitcher Y, because in numerous cases it was close (where it wasn't an easy choice picking one guy over another), and keep in mind that if two guys are close and one was listed as a #1 for his team and the other #2, switching them around probably changes very little on the league averages, which is the main goal of this.
Two other notes before reading the list:
1) I tried to impose an innings limit where applicable. For instance, if a team had a pitcher with 200 innings and then a guy with 120 innings, I had a hard time justifying the 130 inning guy above the 200 inning guy, even if his rate stats were a lot better.
2) If a guy was traded midseason, I tried to put him on the team he pitched the most innings for (ie - Price is listed as the Tigers' #1 and Cueto as the Reds' #1).
For 2015, the average #1 starter went 14-10 with a 3.26 ERA (129 ERA+), 204 innings, and 1.14 WHIP. Individual players listed below and league averages at the bottom of the table.
My goal isn't necessarily to argue whether pitcher X on a team was better than pitcher Y, because in numerous cases it was close (where it wasn't an easy choice picking one guy over another), and keep in mind that if two guys are close and one was listed as a #1 for his team and the other #2, switching them around probably changes very little on the league averages, which is the main goal of this.
Two other notes before reading the list:
1) I tried to impose an innings limit where applicable. For instance, if a team had a pitcher with 200 innings and then a guy with 120 innings, I had a hard time justifying the 130 inning guy above the 200 inning guy, even if his rate stats were a lot better.
2) If a guy was traded midseason, I tried to put him on the team he pitched the most innings for (ie - Price is listed as the Tigers' #1 and Cueto as the Reds' #1).
For 2015, the average #1 starter went 14-10 with a 3.26 ERA (129 ERA+), 204 innings, and 1.14 WHIP. Individual players listed below and league averages at the bottom of the table.