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Worst collapses in baseball…over 8000 to 1 odds lol #1 ranking fail.
Holy crap, when did they start keeping track of that?!
You do know I have both Jeter and Cano on my fantasy team in your league right?
:lovin:
jeter cano and the rest of the team is mariners right?
Thanks for the memories Larry “chipper” jones. He has to be a HOFer Imo. My braves are F’ed now. 
Fuck Man. Just when we were doing good this season. This is a blow man.
Hall of Famer Chipper Jones. At least he got one title with us.
No question Chipper Jones is a HOF, you would have to be an idiot to even question that.
Johnathan Broxton is a gutless coward
pretty sure it’s joe torre’s fault and not his
torre has ruined every reliever he came in contact with except mariano rivera bc he’s unbreakable
kuo better hope he’s traded in the off season or torre leaves cause he’s next
I’ve been trying to figure this one out for a couple of years and this year it’s even worse. Right now, Matt Cain is 9-9. Amongst the four Giant’s regular starters, he has the best ERA, most IPs, least HRs, least BB, least HBP, the least WHIP, the least On base against, the least wild pitches, the second least batting average against to Sanchez, the second least Total Bases to Sanchez (probably due to the massive amounts of IPs), he gets more fly outs than ground outs compared to the others (so probably fewer double plays), his pitches per inning is just above Zito’s, …
deep breath
and yet he’s only 9-9. This has been his career so far, close but not dominate…
He either has great mental strength to not worry about W/L and be humble enough to just pitch his best, or he’s really not quite as good as his numbers indicate.
I still love his IPs and his great low ERA.
But breaking it down how are the Giants doing when he starts?
Start at 9-9 out of 24 games, so 6 other games he gets a no decision. Well Let’s take a look at all of those no decision.
- The Giants are 3-3.
- Matt Cain put up a ‘quality’ start in all of those no decision. A quality start is defined as 6+ ip, 3 or less ER.
And yet the Giants are still .500 when he starts…
What kind of situational stats might explain this:
- RISP w/2out, ER’s (32) are the same as RISP with any outs. That is to say, he hasn’t given up any runs with RISP with less than 2 outs, but he has given up 32 runs with RISP with 2 outs.
- BAA goes up at RISP 2/out.
- Pitches 1-15 account for a higher percentage of his ER’s than any other pitch count. But wait he had that one bad game where he gave up 7 ERs in 2.2 IPs, but there were only 3 ERs in the first inning, so it’s still more …
Is it RISP with 2/outs and Matt Cain cannot handle it? Is it coaching to not pull him at the right time when he has 91-105 pitches with RISP 2/outs?
What about AT&T park? He is 6-3 at home and 3-6 away.
Well he pitched a brilliant 1-0 LOSS at Oakland.
Err…
Fuck it.
W/L’s are easier.
Big series with Padres vs. Giants tonight. Go Pads!
I have NO idea how you came to this conclusion after all of that.
Wow, Carl Pavano…awesome.
but everyone made fun of me last year when i suggested playoff teams pick up pavano when the indians were shopping him around 
He probably didn’t have his sweet stache then? But now it’s ON.
It’s a parody on all the ‘hard’ work I just did.
Somewhere in those stats is probably a good measure of why Cain has trouble winning more games. My opinion is his trouble with RISP w/ 2 outs plus playing for a team that doesn’t score many runs with RISP/2 outs. On top of that, I’m betting the coach doesn’t pull Cain as often as he could given the state of the bullpen after Jonathen Sanchez’s next start in the next game 
(for rsigley).
AWESOME win for the Braves. GG Dodgers
I think just the idea of a pitcher winning a game is silly to start with.
I mean it’s inherently incorrect - you win a game as team by outscoring the other team. Scoring runs is the objective. Pitchers are not involved in accomplishing the objective, they are only there to slow the other team down from accomplishing their objective.
Obviously yes, the starting pitchers are the two players who have the most impact on the game…but the outcome of a game should never be tied to them, since they aren’t involved. Win/loss records shouldn’t be associated with pitchers at all. They should replace it with like…quality starts/non-quality starts.
And even that wouldn’t be that accurate still.