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And you et an account on Twitter?

Interesting.

However, for them to be accurate, you have to average a buncha years together and more time consumption. Good rainy day project, though.

ESPN’s park factors are pretty simple

home (RS+RA/G) divided by away (RS+RA/G)

using that, the 1990 Athletics get a park factor of 0.766. makes sense–I always pictured Oakland as a pitcher’s park

Heh, it would be easy enough to find out if I had the park factors, but I don’t think they go back that far and I’m not sure how they are calculated.

4.5…yikes

WAR doesn’t go back to 1989-90 when Eckersley was setting the modern WHIP record (0.607 in 1989) but he walked 7 batters in 131 innings and had an 18.29:1 K:BB over two years. he didn’t throw enough innings in 89, but his 1990 WAR was probably up there (hey, if you’re already doing the calculations…..)

I believe Gagne had a 4.5 his one beyond monster year, but haven’t heard of anything higher than that.

Mo’s 2008 number is suppressed because he didn’t pitch all that many innings–Yankees got blown out a lot!

Glad you’re enjoying the series!

“that” being that the 3.1 for the 08 season has got to be pretty close to the max of what a reliever can do. obviously, I haven’t seen the 4PM update

yea, I saw that like five minutes after I wrote that comment

damn you Sandy Alomar

also, great series!

Check the 4 PM update, I do the math. The seasons in which Mo pitched only one inning (ie, the Yankees were out in the first round) and 1997 kind of killed him. If he pitched like he did in the 01, 03 and 09 postseasons, though, there’s no doubt in my mind it’d be that high.

of course a 7.4 WAR for a reliever in one season is absurd (that would be a tick ahead of Roy Halladay and only Verlander, Lincecum, and Greinke did better than that this year) but this is Mo’s whole postseason career of 133.1 innings (about two full seasons) in which he has been SO good that maybe it isn’t too crazy