Welcome to what will become a season-long look at starting pitching. Long term I’m thinking of this as a way to grade starting pitchers based on key stats, but I knew if I focused on stats today I’d get nine million (well-deserved) “SSS” replies in the comments. A lot of the numbers aren’t even close to meaningful yet (God help us if Quintana puts up a season long 9.00 ERA). So today I’m mostly looking at velocity, pitch make up and some movie scenes that I thought about during the first week of Cubs baseball.
Generally, consider this a stats focused place that will necessarily have to look at other things from time to time.