Category: Johan Santana

Head Versus Heart

The two opposing sides in signing Jon Lester.

The early returns on SIERA

ALCS Game 5: New York Yankees at Los Angeles Anaheim
For those not following the sabermetric updates Baseball Prospectus has attempted to create a new pitching statistic that improves on all those before it. This new stat is called SIERA or Skill-Interactive Earned Run Average. This takes the work of Nate Silver who created QERA to attempt to fix the combined issues in FIP and xFIP. So far the sabermetric community has put in lots of work reviewing, but what are the early returns? Matt Schwartz and Eric Seidman are the main authors on this work and attempt to describe first why this new stat is needed. The biggest reason is that while FIP, xFIP and QERA are all very instructional they do have a problem. That problem lays in a potential weighting of the three factors pitchers control strike outs, walks and groundball rate. In this case QERA is the worst for that failing as stated here:

BOS 5, TOR 1: Sweepin

Toronto may sit atop the A.L. East Divisional standings presently, but one thing is for sure. The Blue Jays haven't done anything against the teams that matter most.

Josh Beckett a goner after 2010?

“We’d better enjoy [Josh] Beckett the next three years,” one Boston Red Sox official said, “Because we won’t be able…

Santana to the Mets

Johan goes to the National League and we can keep our prospects. In the end, it

Forget about Huston Street.

The comments section of Fire Brand has been abuzz with trying to get Huston Street. Forget about it. Oakland has…

Notes On Xmas Eve

I hope everyone enjoyed yet another Patriots win yesterday and happy holidays to all. Here