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Interpreting the Coaches Box
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Comerica Park vs SkyDome (Rogers Centre)
What could one be doing in Toronto on April 5, 2007 that they couldn€™t be doing in Detroit, which is southerly to Toronto? Why watching a Major League baseball game of course.
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The Havana Cuba Sugar Kings
This article is a continuation of my memories from Maple Leaf Stadium in Toronto. Today I will reminisce about the Havana Cuba Sugar Kings.
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 Toronto Maple Leaf Baseball — Memoirs
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Earl asked me to write a memoir type of entry regarding my earliest recollections of watching baseball so to accommodate this request we have to go back to circa 1955.
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The Ensured Loss
This is a follow-up inspired by K-Man’s article on BJ Ryan and specifically the discussion about use of relief pitchers and the statistics used to measure their usefulness.
Relief pitcher’s appearances in games that their team is losing are treated marginally by statistics. The major categories to measure a reliever’s success are traditionally W/L, K, ERA SV% and the Games Held% and Inherited Runners Scored.
Now, relief pitchers do not take as many decisions as starters for obvious reasons. There is also a trend of current relievers not taking as many decisions as relievers in the 1960-1980s. This is a result of the use of a higher quantity of relief pitchers. I cannot say that all relief pitchers, on average, have more or less appearances but they do average less innings pitched. The below graphic shows that while, games and GF have remained as a very comparable ratio across the ages usually between 75-85%, IP and W+L have been diminishing in the last dozen years.