Relief pitchers always have lower ERA's than starters. even guys like Kershaw usually don't beat out closers in era.
Red Sox Notes @SoxNotes 5h5 hours ago
Sox relievers have allowed 0 runs in their last 26.0 IP, the club’s longest scoreless streak since April 2004 (32.1 IP) (via @EliasSports).
Fine. Try this. Right now the rotation sucks and the bullpen is saving our asses.
Or this. We lost three straight to the Indians in the ALDS last year because Price and Porcello gave the first two games away and Buchholz wasn't much better. But we got to the ALDS in September because the bullpen was great time and time again.
I'll tell you why I don't buy that bs about all the advantages the bullpen has. When they come out there, they must deliver from the first pitch. Starters get to make mistakes and especially have bad first innings because we all accept that and hope that in the 2d or 3d inning they will "hit their stride." Sometimes relievers are sent out there with the bases loaded, but starters only encounter that by loading the bases all by themselves. Lots of lefties are sent out to get just one guy out. If you told a starter to do that, he would laugh in your face.
Starters get all the money because they have great stuff and the good ones can regularly go 7 and 8 innings--good innings--but they only have to do that every five games or days. I think the hardest thing for a starter--and it is hard--is going thru the lineup 2, 3, and even 4 times. Relievers rarely have to do that.
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DRA - Deserved Run Average - It's the way to go.
It takes into account, for both the starter and the reliever, how many inherited runners were allowed to score.
Yikes! Looks like we jinxed the bullpen by starting this thread. Just kidding!
Holds are more important than Saves to me. 1 Reliever comes in with a 99 % with no Runners on base the other in critical situations. With the hold situation you need a Strike thrower, walks or throwing to hitter counts will kill you.
Last edited by OH FOY!; 06-22-2017 at 09:41 AM.