Comments on: The Surprisingly Easy Case for David Price: Cy Young Winner http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/09/20/the-surprisingly-easy-case-for-david-price-cy-young-winner/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Anon http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/09/20/the-surprisingly-easy-case-for-david-price-cy-young-winner/#comment-8702 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:24:17 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7881#comment-8702 I’m supposed to take a stat seriously that ranks Michael Pineda as the 12th best starting pitcher in MLB this year? Who am I supposed to believe? BP or my lying eyes?

]]> By: Anon http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/09/20/the-surprisingly-easy-case-for-david-price-cy-young-winner/#comment-8682 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:54:27 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7881#comment-8682 The good folks at BP have done great work with DRA and WARP, but 99.99% of baseball fans have no idea what they’re derived from, or what they mean — including the ones who vote for the award.

Porcello’s IP/start is better than Price, so I’m not sure you can really consider that a win for Price here.

K:BB is also misleading, when you consider the K/BB favors Porcello significantly.

]]> By: Binyamin http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/09/20/the-surprisingly-easy-case-for-david-price-cy-young-winner/#comment-8664 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:06:22 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7881#comment-8664 DRA did not penalize Price for all those poorly located pitches in the first half that were being hit hard and/or far, and even made it look like he was doing terrific when in fact the Sox were losing games he started by substantial margins. And they were losing those games because he pitched lousy according to any eye test or smell test or just from paying attention to Jerry Remy showing you how Price left that pitch up over the plate. And confirming what DRA is telling you by using WARP which is based on DRA is, not oddly, unconvincing. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a high ERA means a pitcher is doing poorly.

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