Each year, as the MLB regular season begins, analysts and managers alike caution fans to avoid taking their team’s early results too seriously. They’ll tell us, “We haven’t played that well, but it’s only April … championships aren’t won it April.” Or, they’ll say, “We’ve started well, yeah, but we won’t know anything about this […]
Day: February 24, 2016
John Lackey Has Become A Man In Need of Few Pitches
Brevity, as it so often has been said in sentences much shorter and more concise and less redundant and less repetitive than this one, is the soul of wit. For John Lackey, brevity was the soul of his 2015. Last season, among qualified starting pitchers, Lackey ranked third in pitches per plate appearance (3.49) and […]