Ranking pitchers

If you enjoy recording data while at baseball games, here is a new way to graph pitcher performance:

Colby Cash has created a 2-D projection of the K/Inn, BB/Inn and HR/Inn of each ERA qualifying pitcher from 2003. Basically, if you are in the upper left corner of the graph, you're very good.

Follow the link to see this graph large enough to read the details.

Here are a few comments from Baseball Musings on the pitchers in the graph:

-- Kevin Brown is located right between Clemens and Pettitte. He's a good replacement for either.

-- Vazquez is better than both Clemens and Pettite, so he should be an upgrade for NY.

-- The Yankees are the only team with three pitchers in the upper left quadrant.

And when the Diamondbacks traded Schilling, they traded the best pitcher in the game according to this graph.