A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

No hitter?

kirkjian must have loved that shit. broken up by the same numbered player in the same inning

He hasn't been pitching that great all year but Maddux passed up Clemens on the all-time wins list at #8.

hmm

lester lester lester lester lester

haha actually broken up w/in seconds of my post

Most wins in the NL - Jason Marquis of the Colorado Rockies.

pitcher wins mean zip

BRING THE SUSTAINABLE BABIP OR DON'T BRING IT AT ALL

pitcher wins mean zip

He also leads the Rockies in IP and WHIP, and is top 50 in MLB in ERA among starters. Better than Beckett, Hamels, Oswalt, Young, Pettite...

Probably can't sustain it (39 strikeouts in 81 innings!), but a lot better than you'd expect to get out of a guy like that. Livan-esque!

Marquis wins make up about 1/3 of the teams total which is pretty bitchin.

Morbs pwned. Thanx guys.

wins still don't add anything to your "argument"

Wins aren't completely meaningless ... they're just not as meaningful as other measures. How often would you find that a 5-15 pitcher is having a better statistical year than a 15-5 pitcher? 1 out of 100? Less than that?

by pitcher VORP, Marquis is 29th in the NL, 7 places behind his teammate Ubaldo Jimenez, who gives up homers about a third as often. Marquis' strikeout total of 4.3/9 IP also suggests he's been lucky, as does his .276 BABIP versus .333 for Jimenez.

Also, this is a thread for in-progress no-hitters.

^^well, no no-hitters this year, now

:-(

i thought this was a thread for pitchers that are doing really well, like in general

i thought this was a thread for pitchers that are doing really well, like in scrabble.

or perhaps poker.

baseball has a tradition of dancing around directly mentioning a no-hitter in progress, so as not to jinx it. so we just post here when a pitcher is doing "really well" in a particular game, as a heads-up.

or when a pitcher is doing really well on a date, like if i see chad billingsley at a bar in l.a. scoring with some hot chick, i'll come back here and report on that.

If superstition about talking about no-hitters extends to random losers on the internet, no one will ever pitch a no-hitter ever again.

Morbs, you're right, of course, but Marquis is so regularly denigrated as, at best, a league average innings-eater (and I'm not arguing this isn't true) that when he actually does, you know, top the most visible stat list, I'm happy to celebrate him. Ubaldo is just a stud. Keep watching this guy (probably lose it completely tonight, ending our 8-win streak singlehandedly, hey ho).

or when a pitcher is doing really well on a date, like if i see chad billingsley at a bar in l.a. scoring with some hot chick, i'll come back here and report on that.

― gangsta hug (omar little), Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:03 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think youd probably use the jeff weaver tacos thread

Swingman Weaver's doing OK right now (dos tacos, 29 innings)!

FREAK (in these conditions acc'ding 2 espn: Weather 60 degrees, Snowing)

JonathanSanchez.

I'm sitting just to the right of home plate, visible on TV. Beard, Red Sox cap, next to a blonde woman.

Dear my vagina, are you to the right as in the first base or third base side?

First. In the belowground section when they're showing the batter.

I see you now, My Vagina.

still doing really well

they're going to show the top of the ninth on espn

i see milo

it's not showing it on espn here ;_;

they're gonna break away from bb tonight once the top of the ninth starts

8.1 really good innings so far

really good pitching sometimes needs really good fielding...nice

thought that was gone

nice

can't believe that dude showed bunt, tho

dude's dad was buggin the fuck out in the stands, great for him. so glad he K'd that last dude who showed bunt first pitch...i'd have drilled him between the shoulders

congrats to jonathon sanchez for the first no hitter in the history of the A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well era

oh wait i guess not

wow sick ending w/the called k

Giants got to trade him while his value's high.

Does it count if it was against the Padres?

After watching this, happened to switch over to NYY-LAA in time to see Jeter's dropped routine pop-up -- talk about the cherry on top.

Amazing that a no-hitter was thrown w/ that 3B-SS combo on the field.

Shouldn't count when you do it against the Padres.

Oh, I see Steve has already mentioned that.

I see you now, My Vagina.

― Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Saturday, July 11, 2009 3:50 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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