Jeff Long, Jonathan Judge, and Harry Pavlidis of Baseball Prospectus recently unveiled their new control and command statistics, which could open up several additional avenues of nerdy baseball research. The BP trio coined their newly-minted command stat Called Strikes Above Average (CSAA). The percentage metric is described as “a measure of how many called strikes the player in question creates for his team.”
Now for the golden question: How do the Cubs starters rank in CSAA?
Kyle Hendricks: #4 (2.53%)
Jon Lester: #15 (1.