A couple of interesting facts, and an article about Colorado coming soon

Got some stuff to do, Wade Davis article will be up soon, talking about the Rockies strategy, pros, and cons.

2 Interesting Facts:

COL has now committed upwards of 100 mil for 3 years of Wade Davis, Jake McGee and Bryan Shaw, more exactly 106 million dollars, 35.3 per year, their age, 32, 31, and 30 respectively, how does that sound?

Another example of why pitching WAR based on FIP makes no sense, Brandon Maurer had an awful year.

59.1 IP 6.52 ERA

he also got terribly unlucky.

3.93 FIP

According to FG, he was worth 0.6 WAR.

No, he wasn't, 6.5 runs every 9 IP over 59 IP, is not worth half a win above replacement.

It goes without saying that the odds of him bouncing back are huge, he should pitch much closer to his FIP and be worth somewhat around half a win in 2018, but that has nothing to do with how much he was worth this year, which is what WAR is trying to determine.

His added value was and should be considered negative. Baseball-Reference had

him at -1.2 WAR, which is unquestionably the better evaluation of his performance in 2017