I wasn’t going to write an article, as I’m tired of writing articles about bullpen and then always end up looking stupid. But I still thought this was interesting enough to share:
So first you have some basic bullpen stats broken out by time periods…(Yes the dreaded selected begin and end points). However I think they are useful here in aligning the narrative of the bullpen collapse with performance data:
BULLPEN ERA VS FIP
Season | IP | NL ERA Rk | ERA | FIP | x FIP | K/9 | BB/9 | HR/9 |
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Season | IP | NL ERA Rk | ERA | FIP | x FIP | K/9 | BB/9 | HR/9 |
Thru ASB | 338 | 1st | 2. |