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Originally Posted by squiggs96
I focus on wins, because that's the most important stat. Seriously, what stat in baseball is ranked higher than wins?
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Literally every other stat is more important when talking about pitchers. The W-L record of a pitcher tells us nothing at all about their skill level. Cliff Lee didn't win a game until months and months into the season and he had a 1000x better season then Barry Zito and is a 1000x better pitcher. ERA while giving us more insight into a pitchers performance is also useless due to the many different unfair factors that make up the stat. Team defense, ballpark the pitcher is pitching in, inherited runners, exc.
Barry Zito is not a good pitcher. He just isn't. He's not a god awful pitcher but he's just not that good. He had a good performance tonight. Kudos to him.