Ted Lilly

4 posts

  1. Stolen Bases Against Lefty Pitchers

    From today's Buster Olney column , his Stat of the day : " Ted Lilly allowed the most stolen base attempts in 2011, with baserunners swiping 35 bags in 37 chances off of the Los Angeles Dodgers southpaw. The remaining…

  2. The Best of the Scrapheap

    The month of August is a good time to keep tabs on Ben Nicholson Smith's continuously updated Players Who Cleared Waivers post. Reading it on the Subway tonight after work, a handful of pitchers stood out: Chris Capuano…

  3. Missing Bats in the Strike Zone

    Here are just a couple of views at one distinctive pitching statistic we don't often talk about but is pretty telling. Tonight, we are going to look at two leaderboards for the percentage of swings and misses inside the…

  4. Player of the Fortnight vol. 3

    It’s been a few weeks since we handed out any hardware , so we’re excited to present our third edition of Players of the Fortnight. (All stats courtesy of the inestimably valuable Fangraphs .) AL Hitter of the Fortnight…