games or starts? At least part of it is that a larger percentage of his <=3 BB starts were crappy starts where he didn't last 5 innings (and it looked like a lot of really crappy ones) ... although the relief appearances make that a bit hard to say for sure. Anyway, BB/9 would seem the place to start.

In games with a BB rate of 4.5/9 or worse, his median IP was 6.1, with 6 K and 3 runs. In games with a BB rate of 3.6/9 or better, median IP was 7.2 with 8 K and 2 runs. That looks like what we'd expect yes?

(I don't know how to get b-r to sum across these games so the means might look different.)

I originally read this as "The Power of the 'Power Prepuce'."

This guy seriously needs to cut back on his use of parenthetical phrases (from one who knows).

Eso, I know I've been misbehaving parenthetically when I find myself embedding a parenthetical expression inside of another one. It's cool for Math, not so cool for Language.

games or starts? At least part of it is that a larger percentage of his <=3 BB starts were crappy starts where he didn't last 5 innings (and it looked like a lot of really crappy ones)

Yeah, that was my thought as well. Games where Ryan was left in to allow five walks were also likely to be games where he allowed three hits and pitched a full nine innings.

Games where Ryan was left in to allow five walks were also likely to be games where he allowed three hits and pitched a full nine innings.

Here's one of my favorites.

QMAX!

I do a lot of parenthetical comments (because I forget to say something (that probably wasn't worth saying in the first place))

-- MWE