December 2, 2008
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008Joba to Start in 2009Posted by Alex EisenbergJust to put to rest one of the more debated about subjects, especially among Yankee fans, Brian Cashman announced that Joba Chamberlain will be placed in the starting rotation for the 2009 season. H/T to River Ave. Blues, which provides the link to the interview in which Cashman makes this announcement. This is a good move by Cashman because Joba will be more valuable to the Yankees as a starter than as a reliever and I don't think pitching in the bullpen is necessarily safer on one's arm than starting. We'll see if he can hold up. Bullpens down the stretchPosted by Dave StudemanThe STATS Inc. blog has a post documenting how each contending team's bullpen fared in the last few weeks of the season. As you can guess, the Mets' pen rates poorly, but it wasn't the only one in the stretch drive doldrums. Final season statsPosted by Dave StudemanAll of our stats and graphs, including team stats and Win Shares, are now up to date through the end of the season. From we last calculated Win Shares (September 6) Manny Ramirez has accrued the most WSAB in the majors (nine). Two National Leaguers are next on the list at eight WSAB (Roy Oswalt and Ryan Howard). The Gifts of PittsburghPosted by Chris JaffeYou don't think of the Pirates as having an impact on any pennant race given that they, well, suck - but they certainly did this year. They had 3 noticable impacts. Wanna know why the Cubs had their winningest season in 63 years? Blame Pittsburgh. The Cubs loaded up on them, going 14-4, catapulting them to 97 wins. That's nothing, though. Forget the Cubs, the Pirates had a huge impact on the other side of town. They played the White Sox in interleauge play, and got swept three games to zilch. Without that sweep, Minnesota is a lot happier today. Last but not least, is Pittsburgh's massive impact on the NL Wild Card race. In 15 games against Milwaukee, Pittsburgh posted a 1-14 record. In other words, the Pirates went 5-31 against Lake Michigan franchises. Here are team winning percentages of all NL Wild Card hopefuls if you exclude Pittsburgh games (record against Pitt in parathesis): NYM .548 (4-3) STL .545 (7-10) HOU .537 (8-8) FLA .519 (3-2) MIL .517 (14-1) Much to my disappointment, Pittsburgh didn't tilt either the NL West or NL East races, though they made both ever so slightly tighter. Postseason oddsPosted by Dave StudemanEach day of the postseason, we'll be posting the odds of each team winning its division series, league championship and the World Series. Those odds will be calculated by James Holzhauer, who just happens to run a website called BaseballPlayoffOdds.com. Here are Jamie's odds as of this morning:
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