Braves SIERA
February 12, 2010 at 5:48 pm by Capitol Avenue Club under Atlanta Braves
2010 pitching staff SIERA, FYI:
| Name | 2008 | 2009 |
| Tim Hudson | 3.86 | 3.56 |
| Tommy Hanson | N/A | 3.75 |
| Jair Jurrjens | 4.16 | 4.38 |
| Derek Lowe | 3.33 | 4.26 |
| Kenshin Kawakami | N/A | 4.59 |
| Kris Medlen | N/A | 3.61 |
| Billy Wagner | 2.57 | 1.62 |
| Takashi Saito | 2.63 | 3.97 |
| Peter Moylan | 2.63 | 3.66 |
| Eric O’Flaherty | 5.18 | 4.08 |
| Jesse Chavez | 4.13 | 4.45 |
Italics just mean the sample is abnormally low, mostly due to injuries and call ups.
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Awesome, thanks for the spreadsheet.
Thanks for posting this.
You don’t happen to know what the league avg. SIERA is do you?
I haven’t read the BPro articles closely enough to know what they say it is, but it was 4.33 in 2008. So, if you use your intuition thinking of it as ERA, you’ll have a fairly good idea of where a pitcher stands.
I like seeing Lowe’s 2008 SIERA with his 2009, as a way measuring how much he might be reasonably projected to regress (positively).
I’d be interested in seeing the SIERA projections for 2010 for Hanson and Kawakami that are yielded by some reasonably realistic projections on their component events. I like to think that adjustments in each’s second turn would show some good advancement.
Guess I’ll have a look over at Fangraphs, see if they have some 2010 projections that include the component events, and plug those into the SIERA calculator.
I don’t know if any projection deals with the different type of batted balls, which is probably the wrong way of going about projecting performance, no?
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