{"id":6692,"date":"2013-05-18T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T18:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2013-05-18T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T18:18:58","slug":"strasburg-leads-the-league-in-era-in-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6692","title":{"rendered":"Strasburg leads the league in ERA in Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2306\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/strasburgstephen_back-free-extras-allansgraphics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2306\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2306\" title=\"strasburgstephen_back free-extras allansgraphics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/strasburgstephen_back-free-extras-allansgraphics-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unlucky Stephen.  Photo allansgraphics.com via free-extras.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billy-ball.com\/2013\/05\/starting-pitchers-era-in-losses\/\">Billy-Ball.com website<\/a> for this interesting phenomena:<\/p>\n<p>We know <strong>Stephen Strasburg<\/strong> has been suffering from some pretty crummy run support so far in 2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/gl.cgi?id=strasst01&amp;t=p&amp;year=2013\">2.7 runs per start<\/a>, and it took the team 7 games to score more than 3 runs for him). \u00a0What&#8217;s also interesting is the table in the above link; Strasburg leads the league in ERA in losses. \u00a0He&#8217;s got a 3.38 ERA in his 5 losses.<\/p>\n<p>Whats special about that? \u00a0Well, most pitchers have dazzling ERAs in their Wins, awful ERAs in their losses, and mediocre-to-bad ERAs in their no-decisions. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/split.cgi?id=strasst01&amp;year=&amp;t=p\">Through his first nine starts<\/a> though Strasburg doesn&#8217;t really show this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in 2 wins: 0.60 ERA; he&#8217;s given up just 6 hits in 15 innings. \u00a0Pretty much unhittable.<\/li>\n<li>in 2 No-Decisions: 4.15 ERA<\/li>\n<li>in 5 losses: 3.38 ERA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Compare these numbers to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/split.cgi?id=strasst01&amp;year=2012&amp;t=p\">what he did last year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in 15 wins: 1.88 ERA<\/li>\n<li>in 7 No-Decisions: 3.12 ERA<\/li>\n<li>in 6 Losses: 7.39 ERA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By and large you see his 2012 numbers for nearly every starting pitcher; when they&#8217;re on, they win. \u00a0When they&#8217;re off, they lose. \u00a0Usually the No-decision ERA gives you a relatively decent indicator as to the &#8220;true&#8221; talent of the pitcher. \u00a0I&#8217;ve never seen a loss ERA as low as his 2013 number frankly, and it seems to support what we&#8217;ve kind of know all along about Strasburg&#8217;s 2013 season; no run support, lots of errors and unearned runs behind him, and a lot of bad luck have contributed to an ugly W\/L line.<\/p>\n<p>Given these numbers, there&#8217;s just no way his W\/L record continues to be this bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Billy-Ball.com website for this interesting phenomena: We know Stephen Strasburg has been suffering from some pretty crummy run support so far in 2013 (2.7 runs per start, and it took the team 7 games to score more than 3 runs for him). \u00a0What&#8217;s also interesting is the table in the above link; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-stephen-strasburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6702,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions\/6702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}