2013 Rankings Project

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nymr83 wrote: I'd like to take issue with JCL's (non) ranking of Mejia, what did Brandon Lyon do to finish higher than him? 34.1 innings of 4.98ERA/1.63WHIP can't be more valuable than 27.1 innings of 2.30/1.17 and they came in starts when you have to face batters multiple times.

I don't really know as I've long since discarded any notes but most likely Mejia fell to a lower "tier" based on appearances -- not innings -- between pitchers at the lower end of the scale. I'm glad to see my harsh garding hasn't cost him points (or given any to Lyon) in the aggregate, even though my grading might have.

[Vic Sage]

I can see including Baxter over d'Arnaud, (though I didn't), but I'd take Black's few good innings over Marcum's many more (almost exclusively) bad ones.

[nymr83]

Value in starts vs relief appearances? I'll thino abou5 mak8ng that change

[nymr83]

This is tough for me, and more so the general philosophy than the specific case of Marcum,

I went and dug into his game log, 2 great starts, 2 good ones, and 1 awesome 8 inning relief appearence vs 8 not good starts and 1 bad relief appearence.

Is that better than a guy who barwly played? Does starting 12 times have value?

Ill keep my rankngs for now, but i acknowledge your criticism is pretty valid and i am 50/50 here on which i think is right.