Last Thursday, Ben wrote the above piece, talking about how there might be a need to revise the measure by which pitching wins are handed out. One of the ideas in the comments - okay, it was mine! - was to use Win Probability to decide who was the team’s best (or worst, in the case of losses) pitcher. This would remove the need for the starting pitcher to go an arbitrary five innings to get the W, and simply award the victory to the pitcher who had the most impact on the game’s final score. This seems fair, because there have been times a player has fallen short of five, but has still been the most significant pitcher in the game.
Assigning Pitching + Position Player Wins
