http://skyking162.com/2006/09/awards-season/ baseball with a hint of lime Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:50:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 http://skyking162.com/2006/09/awards-season/#comment-159 skyking162 ? Blog Archive ? AL Cy Young - Relievers Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:09:15 +0000 http://skyking162.com/2006/09/awards-season/#comment-159 [...] Like I wrote in the first awards post, comparing starters to starters is relatively easy because their roles are all the same. When you consider relievers, however, you?ve just introduced another factor ? leverage. Obviously, Mariano Rivera?s 75 IP are more valuable than 75 of Johan Santana?s innings, because you can pick which games and situations to use them. Not surprisingly, Joe Torre uses Mo at the end of close games, thus maximizing Yankee wins. The reason Torre doesn?t lead off every other game with one inning from Rivera should be obvious. [...] […] Like I wrote in the first awards post, comparing starters to starters is relatively easy because their roles are all the same. When you consider relievers, however, you?ve just introduced another factor ? leverage. Obviously, Mariano Rivera?s 75 IP are more valuable than 75 of Johan Santana?s innings, because you can pick which games and situations to use them. Not surprisingly, Joe Torre uses Mo at the end of close games, thus maximizing Yankee wins. The reason Torre doesn?t lead off every other game with one inning from Rivera should be obvious. […]

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