When discussing the elite pitchers in Major League Baseball, names like Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer, and Shohei Ohtani often dominate the conversation. Yet, quietly carving out a place among these giants is the Phillies’ Ranger Suárez, a pitcher whose remarkable skill set and consistent performance have made him one of the most underrated talents in the league.
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The traditional Quality Start goes back several decades. A Quality Start is awarded to a starter when he pitches AT LEAST 6 innings AND allows 3 earned runs OR LESS. But it has limits. That’s why we’ve created the Quality Quality Start or QQS. We use it to find the best starting pitchers, the pitchers who truly impact their team’s chances to win a game.
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Eight pitchers have managed to win 100 games for TWO teams. All but two of them are in the Hall of Fame. All of them were great hurlers.
This is part of a series on the greatest players in the history of a franchise based on the advanced statistic called WAR (Wins Above Replacement). First
A few years ago I penned a list article about the New York Yankees top players ranked according to WAR (Wins Above Replacement). I stated at the
I don’t know nearly enough about the “guts” of WAR to know whether it’s great, good, bad, pitiful, or somewhere in between. This IS NOT an article
It’s surprisingly difficult to select the greatest pitcher in the history of the Cincinnati Reds.
When Juan Marichal stepped on the mound for the first time as a big leaguer, it was the first major league game he had ever seen. Nine innings later, he had made one of the most spectacular debuts in baseball history, and launched a career that would land him in Cooperstown.