Sortable Pitcher Win Values
Pitcher Win Values are now available in the leaderboards, team pages, and the MyTeam section.
Two fun facts:
After the park, league and replacement adjustments for 2008, it looks like Roy Halladay was ever so slightly more valuable than C.C. Sabathia by our calculations. Though for all practical purposes they were equally valuable. Neither of them the Cy Young award, though Sabathia did change leagues making it particularly difficult for him to win. (C.C Sabathia 7.68 wins vs. Roy Halladay 7.71 wins)
Remember when Eric Seidman wrote about how awful Brandon Backe was and how he couldn’t understand why he was still allowed to pitch in the majors? Well, of all the qualified starting pitchers in 2008, Backe finished dead last in wins, with -0.8 of them.
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
Forget Backe. I’d like to know how Scott Elarton keeps finding work.
Look at his ERA in 2008 and his numbers in Buffalo prior to that.