cliff lee Stories - Over the Monster
Cliff Lee back in Red
It's hard to feel anything other than abject hopelessness and fear as a Reds fan, sitting on the sidelines as the Phillies signed Cliff Lee to a deal two years and $28M shorter than what the Yankees offered. Aren't there natural forces that prevent this kind of thing from happening? Why does the...
Know Your Enemy: Cleveland Indians
Heading into the series against Boston the Tribe are 7-12, good enough for dead last in the division, albeit they are only 3.5 games back. Cleveland finished last season right at the .500 mark and right in the middle of the AL Central. After trading away C.C. Sabathia to the Brewers mid-season, the...
I Will Stop at Nothing / Say the Right Things When Electioneering: Pure Quality Start (PQS), Game Score and Why Cliff Lee Should Not Have Won the 2008 Cy Young Award
During a game thread last week, the term pure quality start came up. Since I plan to use PQS as an important indicator of how pitchers have been doing this year (and consequently how well they'll do going forward), I'd like to do a quick post just to explain what it is, how to score it and why I...
Prospect Retro: Cliff Lee
Prospect Retro: Cliff Lee Cliff Lee was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the fourth round in 2000, out of the University of Arkansas, where he'd posted a 4.45 ERA and a 77/52 K/BB ratio in 65 innings, showing a strong strikeout rate but struggling with his control. He owned a 90-94 MPH fastball,...
2008 SBN Baseball Awards: Cy Young
As voted on by the SBN baseball family, the 2008 American League and National League Cy Young winners: National League 1st 2nd 3rd Points Tim Lincecum 14 2 1 77 Johan Santana 1 8 3 32 Brandon Webb - 4 7 19 CC Sabathia 3 - 1 16 Cole...
Indians top Sox; no clinch yet
via assets.espn.go.com And we wait. At this point it kind of seems like all we can do is hurry up and wait. After the Sox fell again, this time to the Indians 4-3, the playoffs technically still aren't there ... yet. It looks like the AL East is a distant dream but, of course, the wild card is...
Dice-Cy?
Dice-K: Enigmatic and Unhittable via farm1.static.flickr.com With his win last night over the Texas Rangers, Daisuke Matsuzaka is now 14-2. Like many stats, wins don't tell you the full story, but they do matter to some people. In particular, the Baseball Writers Association of America consider...
Pitcher Analysis: Cliff Lee
[Editor's Note: I've invited Kyle Boddy of Driveline Mechanics to analyze an Indians pitcher. Here's his statistical and mechanical analysis of Cliff Lee's amazing start to the 2008 season - Ryan] Phrases that I heard about Cliff Lee over the course of the 2007 season: He’s a...
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