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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Re: Walt Terrell
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Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 08:18:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  3 08:18:59 1985
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A .500 pitcher is not mediocre, but rather solid major league
material.  Moreover, Terrell's 3.5 ERA indicates that his pitching is
good enough for a winning record almost any year (the Mets were the
least productive NL team in 1983 and just failed to produce runs for
Terrell in 1984).  Finally, whatever "mind" play is important to
pitchers, it comes from within, not from gurus in the bullpen.

To summarize, anyone who judges pitching performance based upon
won-loss records is just ASKING for trouble.  Almost any other
statistic (e.g. ERA, innings pitched, or some intelligent composite
such as earned runs prevented) is better than which depends more on
the other eight players than on the pitcher himself.

						David Rubin