Without much fanfare, the Mets added Shaun Marcum, an underrated right-hander with a career earned-run average of 3.76.
All five pitchers threw more than 50 innings of relief this season while combining for a 3.12 earned-run average.
Opening-day starter Jon Niese looks poised to improve from his impressive 2012, when he compiled a 3.40 earned-run average.
In 70.33 innings he's had a 4.22 earned-run average and a 6-4 record.
Since 2003, the teams with 1, 000-inning rotations posted a 3.76 bullpen earned-run average, compared with a 4.05 ERA for everybody else.
They owe their success primarily to their pitchers, whose combined 2.36 earned-run average entering Tuesday was the best in the majors.
Even as his earned-run average ballooned at first, batters never could figure out how to hit Rice's pitches into the air.
Yet the Cardinals have the lowest earned-run average in the majors this year (3.07), in part because of the emergence of top prospect Shelby Miller.
The four Sox relievers who pitched at least 50 innings this year--Papelbon, Mike Timlin, Hideki Okajima and Kyle Snyder--registered a major league best 2.75 bullpen earned-run average.
The Angels ranked second this spring with a whopping .300 batting average, but they were dead last in pitching with a 6.56 earned-run average more than a full run worse than the next team.
Under our methodology, a pitcher earned points each season based primarily (90%) on three major categories: winning percentage relative to his team's (33%), earned-run average relative to the league (33%) and innings pitched relative to the league (24%).
He picked up 54 points on our scorecard that year by, among other stats, going 21-7 for a 76-86 team and for posting a 2.05 earned-run average that was more than two full runs per game lower than the American League average (among pitchers with at least 150 innings).
Yes, New York's infatuation with its New York-ness is hopeless and mostly annoying, but in this instance it is really true: There is no hothouse quite like the Yankee hothouse, and to remain emotionally intact, as Rivera has done for so many years, should be held up as some kind of marvel alongside those freakish numbers for saves (608) and postseason earned-run average (0.70).
Both also have career earned-run averages of almost a run per game better than the league average, while tossing more than 200 innings per season.
From the old school (home runs, batting average, runs batted in, wins, earned run average) to the money ball school (on-base percentage, slugging percentage, wins over replacement player), there's more to feed the stat geek's appetite than ever.
With a record of 240-138 (.635), a 3.88 earned run average (pitching mostly in an era of big offense) and ten seasons with at least 200 innings, he rates as one of the top pitchers of his time.
His first call-up as a rookie in 1995 saw him post a robust 5.51 earned run average (ERA), leading to trade talk.
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