Switching Leagues Helps Pitchers
Earlier this week, Matt Simonini wrote about how moving from the NL to the AL hurts pitchers’ performance. In the post, Matt showed how Josh Beckett’s statistics from his final season with the Florida Marlins were better than his first season with the Boston Red Sox. From my perspective, it doesn’t matter if a pitcher [...]
The Effect of Switching Leagues on Pitchers
Baseball is chock full of debatable topics. Arguments go back and forth over who was the best hitter of all time, the best left handed pitcher or whether steroids made baseball better. The list of questions could potentially go on and on forever. For today, let’s talk about pitchers. More specificially, does a pitcher gain or [...]
