Hermanson's Bizarre Stats

[strats36]

I am trying to decide between Wickman and Hermanson and discovered some weird stats. I was looking at pitch counts 1-15 and 16-30. The most important for a closer.

Hermanson's pitch count 1-15 stats:

14.1 IP, 13 K, 2 BB, 1 HR, .91 WHIP. Nice.

Hold on a minute though, 13 R, 8.16 ERA!! Where did those runs come from with that WHIP, BB/K, K/9 and only one HR??

Pitch count 16-30 is not that unusual.

15 IP, 13 K, 3 BB, 1 HR, 1.53 WHIP, and 4.80 ERA. Still a nice BB/K and K/9 though.

Anyone have idea why his ERA is so high with such a low WHIP?


Oh yeah, Wickman's stats:

1-15: 6 IP, 7 K, 2 BB, 0 HR 0.00 ERA 1.83 WHIP
16-30: 3 IP, 2K, 2 BB, 0 HR, 12.00 ERA, 2.00 WHIP

P.S. In 18 starts, Hermanson has allowed runs in the first inning only twice. Good sign?

[FantasyFreak]

hmm interesting stats there, thanks for the info

[Pedantic]

Maybe he puts the runs on base in 1-15 and lets them score in 16-30.

[shortsavage]

Where did you get your splits strats36?

[StlSluggers]

Hermanson's pitch count 1-15 stats:

14.1 IP, 13 K, 2 BB, 1 HR, .91 WHIP. Nice.

Hold on a minute though, 13 R, 8.16 ERA!! Where did those runs come from with that WHIP, BB/K, K/9 and only one HR??

Not to say you're wrong, but those R/ERA numbers seem way wrong. If you do the math, he must have allowed 11 hits and 2 BB to get that WHIP. That means that all 13 baserunners he allowed scored.

That seems really fishy to me.

[shortsavage]

I am looking on CBS now, they have Hermanson's first inning ERA as 2.50. Furthermore, in the first inning he has 16Ks in a total of 18 innings and a WHIP of 1.00.

He has only given up 5 runs in the first inning this season (all earned). So, there is no way that he can have an ERA of 8.16 through pitches 1-15.

[Tavish]

Low WHIP high ERA usually means that a pitcher gives up hits in bunches. Its the same concept as a pitcher with a high WHIP and low ERA, they spread out the hits/walks not letting teams get real rallies going. Kind of scary to have a closer that gives up big innings.

[Pedantic]

Oh, well, it's not strats' fault. This is what Yahoo has in Hermanson's profile:

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              IP   H  R  ER HR BB K  ERA  WHIP  BAA   
Pitch 1-15    14.1 11 13 13 1  2  13 8.16 0.91 .212   
Pitch 16-30   15.0 20 8  8  1  3  13 4.80 1.53 .313   
Pitch 31-45   20.0 18 8  7  3  4  13 3.15 1.10 .240   
Pitch 46-60   17.1 20 8  8  2  9  8  4.15 1.67 .290   
Pitch 61-75   16.2 19 10 9  5  6  10 4.86 1.50 .279   
Pitch 76-90   12.1 15 6  5  1  5  9  3.65 1.62 .313   
Pitch 91-105  6.2  5  4  3  0  4  6  4.05 1.35 .217   
Pitch 106-20  1.2  2  0  0  0  2  2  0.00 2.40 .286   

Edit: Let me clean some of this up...ah, finally, perfect.

[Rico The Retard]

well thats yahoo for ya

[shortsavage]

I didn't know that anyone used Yahoo for stats .