A PROPOSITO DI PEDRO...

[dap]

But, number three for me ranks number one on my list. Of course, Pedro Martinez is a Hall of Famer, but I am dumbfounded by the fact that 49 members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America didn’t vote for Pedro Martinez in the Hall of Fame election.

Honestly, what were these guys thinking?

It’s as if they decided to ignore Pedro’s Red Sox years of 1998-2004 when he went 117-37, whiffing 1,683 batters, and walking just 309 in 1383 2/3 innings. His strikeout to walk ratio was 5.45 during a time when the rest of the league’s was 1.86.

This was the height of the steroid era, and to appreciate what that meant, over that seven-year stretch the despicable Barry Bonds hit 329 homers in 974 games. Mo Vaughn played 1528 games in his career and totaled 328 homers.

In Boston, Pedro’s ERA was 2.52:
• In 2014, the “Year of the Pitcher,” the AL ERA was 3.82, 1.30 runs more than Pedro’s.
• From 1998-2004, Pedro’s Red Sox years, the AL ERA was 4.65, 2.13 runs more than Martinez.

The man was simply amazing.

Nine to Know: Pedro from 1998-2004

1. Martinez allowed 387 earned runs, the fewest for any pitcher throwing at least a thousand innings. The league average pitcher during that time period allowed 731 ER. For perspective I’m sharing the numbers of Andy Pettitte, the outstanding Yankee pitcher, who allowed 568 runs in about 150 fewer innings pitched.

2. Pedro’s WHIP (Walks + Hits divided by Innings Pitched) was 0.978, the best in baseball; he was followed by Randy Johnson (1.063) and Curt Schilling (1.078). For perspective: Pettitte’s WHIP was 1.402, which was still better than the rest of the league which averaged 1.46.

3. Pedro had a batting average against of .206, the best in baseball; followed by Kerry Wood (.214) and Randy Johnson (.216). For perspective: Andy Pettitte’s BAA was .273.

4. This is amazing: Pedro Martinez had 46 starts in which he allowed three hits or less.

5. Pedro made 53 starts in which he allowed no earned runs and went 49-0 in those games.

6. Pedro had 72 double-digit strikeout games. In 43 of the games he walked either one or none.

7. Pedro walked one batter in 74 starts and no one in 39 more.

8. In 201 starts, Pedro allowed five earned runs or more just 20 times (and was 3-11 in those starts). For perspective: Over that same span, Derek Lowe started just 111 times for the Sox and allowed five earned runs or more 25 times (he went 6-16).

9. Ken Griffey Jr. was 0-12 against Pedro during this time. Frank Thomas was 2-24 against Martinez. Edgar Martinez was 3-25 against him. Roberto Alomar was 4-27. Manny B. Manny was 4-29.

Granted, the rest of Petey’s career was simply good to very good. But honestly with seven years like this in the books, I have only one question:

“What were those 49 writers thinking?”
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era doveroso accennare a questo evento
sono stato letteralmente innamnorato (sportivamente si intenda) di Pedro Martinez
molti altri hanno fatto la storia del pitching nel baseball, numeri da capogiro, ma quello che ho visto fare a Pedro supera per me ogni immaginazione.

[ameba]

Non so nemmeno di cosa tu stia parlando, ma un bentornato mi pareva doveroso !

Ciao Compare !

[Honza]

Non so nemmeno di cosa tu stia parlando, ma un bentornato mi pareva doveroso !

Ciao Compare !

IDEM

[franktombino]

Nostalgia eh dap?

73 giorni e si ricomincia...

I miei Cubs finalmente stan lavorando bene sul mercato, si vede che Theo Epstein (dovresti conoscerlo... ) è uno in gamba...

E occhio ai Nationals che con l'acquisto di Scherzer han messo su una squadra mostruosa, starting rotation impressionante...

[dap]

Ricambio i saluti del Compare cosi )questi maledetti keyboards americani senza accentate e...non solo) come l amico Honza.
Frank, sono preparatissimo per la prossima stagione e vedo che anche te sei in chiave. Spero vivamente che ci ripresenteremo da queste parti.
A presto