Most importantly, Pettitte had never led his league in strikeouts or earned run average.
On average, share-price gains in those years have far outperformed the long-run average for the stockmarket.
Only nine Hall of Fame pitchers have a career earned run average of 3.50 or higher.
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Lidge converted all 41 of his save opportunities this season, while posting a 1.95 earned run average.
Without much fanfare, the Mets added Shaun Marcum, an underrated right-hander with a career earned-run average of 3.76.
American industry as a whole operated at 82.4% of full capacity, 1.4 percentage points above its long-run average.
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.
Circa 4.5% per year coming out of serial or otherwise lousy recessions, settling into a long-run average of 3.3%.
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In 70.33 innings he's had a 4.22 earned-run average and a 6-4 record.
The Bank said consumer spending was forecast to grow slightly below its long-run average over the next couple of years.
The ratio of common market capitalization to sales, at 1.8, is well below the long-run average of 2.6.
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.
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His first call-up as a rookie in 1995 saw him post a robust 5.51 earned run average (ERA), leading to trade talk.
He expects a second round of price declines: a further 20% fall would bring prices back to their long-run average against earnings.
Despite the recent rally, Mr Barty points out, even in the south prices are still below their long-run average relative to incomes.
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In his 18 seasons as a major league pitcher, Morris never had an earned run average less than 3.05 in the regular season.
Federal spending is projected to consume about 23.6 percent of GDP, substantially higher than the long-run average of 19.8 percent of economic output.
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According to the CBO, once economic recovery occurs, federal revenues will revert to their long-run average of 18% of GDP under current tax rates.
After April's jump in prices, this ratio is well above its long-run average and only about 15% less than its all-time peak in 1989.
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.
Until companies increase their rate of capacity utilization from 77.5% to over the long run average of 80%, they will remain reluctant to hire.
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To determine why deficits are higher today than that long-run average, I decided to look at what spending and revenues will be over the next 5-10 years.
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Individual talent and performance statistics like overall scoring disparity, team batting average, home runs or a pitching staff's earned run average are given no weight at all.
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.
Pitchers were primarily rated on winning percentage, earned run average (ERA) and innings, with limited weight given to strikeouts and (inversely) walks and hits allowed per nine innings.
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