How to evaluate the skill level of the pitcher? To this end, in baseball there is more than a dozen statistical indicators. Particularly noteworthy are two of them: 1. Value of victories and defeats. 2. era – ratio showing the number of runs (Runs), which skips the pitcher in the middle for 9 innings. High efficiency of delivery is characterized by lower values of era.
At the beginning of the season (30 – 40 games), the overall average era is pretty objective measure, then, to the extent that it increases the number of matches played pitcher, more considered an accurate indicator of era, the average over the last three games. Furthermore, it should be borne in mind that the era of any pitcher in the games on the road a bit more than at home. Thus, the opposition pitchers – the first thing to take into account, predicting the result of a match. And this applies not only betting on the outcome, but also on the total. For example, if each other resist such aces as Justin Verlander and Carlos Zambrano, the total Total match is unlikely to exceed 7 points. Bulpen (bench pitchers). In modern baseball starting pitcher holds on to the site the first 6-7 innings. Remaining time "on a hill>> work relivery. Their task, at least – to keep previously mined advantage (for reliverov even has a special indicator – saves – 'Save'), and, if possible – to increase his or reverse the course of the emerging unsuccessful match.