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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Thursday, October 04, 2012Rays closer Fernando Rodney gets one out, sets record for relief ERA
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Posted: October 04, 2012 at 02:29 PM | 23 comment(s)
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1. Bourbon Samurai, what price fettucine? Posted: October 04, 2012 at 03:14 PM (#4254256)I wish the worst upon him: I hope he goes back to being the old Fernando Rodney.
You have to lower the innings threshold to 45 to get someone with a lower ERA than those two, which gets you Joey Devine's 2008 (0.59 in 45.2) and Buck O'Brien's 1911 (0.38 in 47.2). O'Brien had 7 UER runs (vs 2 ER) though, and 5 GS with 1 relief appearance, while Devine, Eckersley, and Rodney each had 4 UER and no GS. Devine also had a bunch more appearances where he didn't finish the game, so presumably more chances for the bullpen to bail him out of baserunners he put on or allow runs to score that he got charged. After a quick check, it looks like neither Eckersley nor Rodney got relieved for with runners on in their respective seasons.
Kimbrel. Rodney was a fluky year, Kimbrel has shown over two seasons that he is this good.
It's funny how many pitchers there are like this. I remember when Carlos Marmol came up, and he was throwing those fribee breaking balls that guys were missing by 2 feet. Juan Cruz was the same way - he seemed to have better pure stuff than any of the other young Cubs pitchers (Prior, Wood, Zambrano).
Some combination of control and makeup seems to be the thing that separates the ones who make it from the ones who don't.
Fred Norman in 1967: 3 batters faced, 3 strikeouts.
Only 4 guys have a K/9 of 27 and 0 baserunners, Norman and three guys with 1 batter faced each. They are Joey Dawley, Scott Sheldon, and, of all people, Kevin Seitzer.
At 60 IP it's Kimbrel with a 1.01 RA.
At 70 IP it's Rollie Fingers from 1981. There are 4 guys with 70 IP and 9 runs allowed:
Rk Player IP R Year ER ERA ERA+
1 Rollie Fingers 78.0 9 1981 9 1.04 333
2 Fernando Rodney 74.2 9 2012 5 0.60 634
3 Eric OFlaherty 73.2 9 2011 8 0.98 389
4 Dennis Eckersley 73.1 9 1990 5 0.61 603
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I saw it on Bleacher Report. Kimbrel is the only pitcher to do this over a large sample size. The only other player to strike out a majority of his batters faced (min. 10 BF) was Francisco Rodriguez, who struck out 13 of 21 batters (5 2/3 IP) in September 2002 before earning postseason glory as K-Rod.
As for Rodney, being a Detroiter I've seen a lot of him. It seemed as a Tiger that he would have command of either the fastball or changeup, but seldom both (and sometimes neither). With the Rays, he has had great command of both pitches and he appears more comfortable on the mound.
Excellent! I thought Kimbrel would be in the running, but I definitely didn't expect him to hold the record (at least for a 60 IP minimum). It really is a season for the ages.
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