Sullivan: Baseball’s most extraordinary (and ordinary) pitchers
From Jeff Sullivan at FanGraphs on July 17, 2014:
In one sense, baseball’s most extraordinary pitcher right now might be Clayton Kershaw. He’s generating results that put even Cy Young-winning Clayton Kershaw to shame, to the point where he’s starting to make people reflect upon career-prime Pedro Martinez. Career-prime Pedro Martinez sets an impossibly high bar, but Kershaw’s trying his damnedest to get there, and it’s a pleasure for everybody that isn’t a baseball player tasked with the responsibility of opposing Clayton Kershaw. He’s doing what he can to be the perfect starting pitcher.
But we can attack the term “extraordinary” in a variety of different ways. Kershaw might be the most extraordinary pitcher by results, but what about the related but different matter of style? Who are baseball’s most unusual pitchers, in the way they go about their business? That’s the question I set out to answer, following a fairly simple and user-friendly process.
Read the full article here: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/baseballs-most-extraordinary-and-ordinary-pitchers/
Originally published: July 17, 2014. Last Updated: July 17, 2014.