Useless pitching stats

[steveringo]

Maybe not useless, but take f w i w...

Starting with the top 80 in ERA (cut off is 4.96) - some top tens:

Most Run Support
M Scherzer – 5.79
R Dempster – 5.65
F Doubront – 5.62
M Minor – 5.41
A Sanchez – 5.29
L Lynn – 5.25
B Colon – 5.23
HJ Ryu – 5.23
CJ Wilson – 5.18
C Tillman – 5.07

Least Run Support
E Stults – 3.07
W Peralta – 3.07
C Lee – 3.12
S Strasburg – 3.15
C Sale – 3.19
T Wood – 3.21
H Kuroda – 3.25
J Lackey – 3.28
K Correia – 3.33
T Lincecum – 3.33


Least Pitches Per Inning
D Price – 14.2
H Iwakuma – 14.2
B Arroyo – 14.2
C Kershaw – 14.5
J Zimmerman – 14.5
B Colon – 14.5
P Corbin – 14.6
A Wainwright – 14.6
J Chacin – 14.7
C Lee – 14.9

Most Pitches Per Inning
U Jimenez – 18.0
R Dempster – 17.5
CJ Wilson – 17.4
F Doubront – 17.3
S Miller – 17.2
G Gonzalez – 17.2
C Tillman – 17.2
I Kennedy – 17.1
Y Gallardo – 17.1
J Quintana – 17.0

 

[1905 Giants]

Holds.

 

[ImSmartherThanYou]

Holds.

Saves are equally useless, except they're glorified beyond belief, which actually makes them worse than holds in my eyes. The guy who gets the hold very often faces a much tougher situation than the guy who gets the save.

 

[cezero]

w/l is the most useless pitching stat

 

[JR Hart]

w/l is the most useless pitching stat

The most useless?????? Worse than saves or holds?????

Time to move out of mom's basement, and stop reading books on sabermetrics. W/L can be misleading, (at times) but it's far from useless.

 

[RandomParticles]

Last year, Cliff Lee was 6-9 with a 3.16 ERA, while Tim Hudson was 16-7 with a 3.62 ERA, so I'd say that W/L is pretty useless. W/L is too highly dependent on the rest of the team. Might not be a useless as saves or holds, but pretty useless.

 

[steveringo]

Last year, Cliff Lee was 6-9 with a 3.16 ERA, while Tim Hudson was 16-7 with a 3.62 ERA, so I'd say that W/L is pretty useless. W/L is too highly dependent on the rest of the team. Might not be a useless as saves or holds, but pretty useless.

Saying wins and losses are less useful than saves or holds is a fairly accurate statement that most will agree with.