Johan Santana – Fire Brand of the American League

2014 Boston Red Sox

Head Versus Heart

The two opposing sides in signing Jon Lester.

July 25, 2014 jcookson

Javier Vazquez

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:

February 20, 2010 Troy Patterson

Daisuke Matsuzaka

5/22: Meet the Mets, Greet the Mets, Come on out and Beat the Mets

There isn't a better pitcher in baseball not named Zack Greinke than Johan Santana. Not the best draw for Dice-K in his return. Good thing we have the mojo working...

May 22, 2009 josh lacey

Daisuke Matsuzaka

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.

May 22, 2009 shawn medeiros

Johan Santana