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Interesting 2008 Pitching Analysis

Check out this interesting pitching analysis of the 2008 season. Whether you're a fantasy geek like me or just a sucker for stats, I really think this graph tells you all you need to know about the kind of pitchers we have.

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I was not at all surprised to see Carlos Zambrano in the northwest quadrant, as his K's were down last year but as always threw a lot of ground ball outs. Kudos to Ryan Dempster for landing in the Northeast quadrant, next to perennial Cy Young candidates. Theodore Roosevelt Lilly, and Rich Harden (as you can see, who by the way had the highest K/Batters Faced ration in the league) were in the Southeast quadrant. The weakest quadrant, the Southwest, showed no Cub pitcher from our starting rotation.  This makes me feel even better about our pitching, and about our prospects for a successful 2009.

Here is a link for the same graph for relief pitchers, if anyone is interested. Of particular note, Carlos Marmol and newly acquired Aaron Heilman both landed in the Southeast quadrant. I have had the pleasure of watching Carlos Marmol pitch for the last season and a half, and while I always appreciated how dominant he is, I never realized that over 2/3 of the batters he faces are retired by either strikeout or ground ball. That's dominant, folks.

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