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The Difference Between a Starter and a Reliever
 
Saturday, 28 June 2008

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Relievers tend to have better ERA's than starters, 0.8 better in fact according to leading sabermetricians. But why? Conventional wisdom says a pitcher throws harder as a reliever because he knows he won't have to pitch as long or as often. But that's not what the numbers say...

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