Baseball Crank: BASEBALL: EWSL

June 10, 2004

BASEBALL: EWSL - The Pitchers

When I started the Established Win Shares project, I ran a list of the top 25 players in baseball by EWSL. But there were no pitchers, and it was justifiably asked, who are the top-ranked pitchers? Well, having covered all the teams, I can now line them up (I broke ties by age rather than pore over the decimal places as I did with the original list):

Rank	Player	EWSL	Pos.	Team	Age
1	Tim Hudson	22	SP	OAK	28
2	Barry Zito	20	SP	OAK	26
2T	Roy Halladay	20	SP	TOR	27
2T	Eric Gagne	20	RP	LA	28
2T	Curt Schilling	20	SP	BOS	37
6	Pedro Martinez	19	SP	BOS	32
7T	Mark Mulder	18	SP	OAK	26
7T	Javier Vazquez	18	SP	NYY	27
7T	Bartolo Colon	18	SP	ANA	31
7T	Mike Mussina	18	SP	NYY	35
11T	Keith Foulke	17	RP	BOS	31
11T	Billy Wagner	17	RP	PHI	32
11T	Randy Johnson	17	SP	AZ	40
11T	Jamie Moyer	17	SP	SEA	41
15T	Byung-Hyun Kim	16	P	BOS	25
15T	Jason Schmidt	16	SP	SF	31
17T	Mark Buehrle	15	SP	CHA	25
17T	Kerry Wood	15	SP	CHN	27
17T	Russ Ortiz	15	SP	ATL	30
17T	Derek Lowe	15	SP	BOS	31
17T	Mariano Rivera	15	RP	NYY	34
17T	Hideo Nomo	15	SP	LA	35
17T	John Smoltz	15	RP	ATL	37
17T	Greg Maddux	15	SP	CHN	38

Hey, I was as surprised at some of these names as you are . . . you can really see the domination of a few teams (Red Sox, A's, Yankees) on this list.

Posted by Baseball Crank at 07:08 AM | Baseball 2004 | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)

Comments

Those A's have some staff, don't they? Reminds me of the Maddux-Glavine-Smoltz days of the Bravos.

I am surprised that Ortiz is the highest ranking Braves starting pitcher. I would have assumed Thompson would be.

Posted by: Gerry at June 10, 2004 10:29 AM

Interesting that the top 2 pitchers of '04 (Clemens/Unit) are old & didn't make the cut.

Posted by: Ricky at June 10, 2004 01:12 PM

Must be quite an anomoly that ranks Kim ahead of Wakefield and Leaves Clemens off the list.

That being said it is interesting to see the small amount of Yankees on the list. If Boston overtakes them or Oakland eliminates them this year it will explain much

Posted by: P. Ingemi at June 10, 2004 03:01 PM

Mariano Rivera below Byung-Hyun Kim and tied with Mark Buehrle, Hideo Nomo? Are you kidding me? Another useless stat.

Posted by: Nick at June 10, 2004 04:45 PM

Mariano Rivera below Byung-Hyun Kim and tied with Mark Buehrle, Hideo Nomo? Are you kidding me? Another useless stat.

Posted by: Nick at June 10, 2004 04:45 PM

No offence Crank, but I think your formula is going to need a little tweeking before next season. Too much of EWSL is based on blind guesses for it to be effective. In this current form it is pretty much useless.

Posted by: Richard at June 10, 2004 08:55 PM

Let me clarify: The formula needs to be tweeked for the team projections, not the individual players. You need a way to accurately project players with less then three years of experience, or else the whole thing is kind of pointless.

Posted by: Richard at June 10, 2004 09:06 PM