[d4cohn]

This is the first Stanford baseball game I have seen this year, and I was stunned to see our team ERA is nearly 6 (and then even more stunned that we got a top 8 seed). The trend doesn't look very good in the last three years with the pitching; the Esquer era actually started off pretty well in terms of pitching/team ERA. I get the analytics of baseball have changed the game, and that compared to softball, the wins above replacement a pitcher can provide is lower, but at some point, you have to have at least adequate/mediocre pitching. And sadly, our team ERA/the performance I have seen so far says we are not there.

[d4cohn]

This is the first Stanford baseball game I have seen this year, and I was stunned to see our team ERA is nearly 6 (and then even more stunned that we got a top 8 seed). The trend doesn't look very good in the last three years with the pitching; the Esquer era actually started off pretty well in terms of pitching/team ERA. I get the analytics of baseball have changed the game, and that compared to softball, the wins above replacement a pitcher can provide is lower, but at some point, you have to have at least adequate/mediocre pitching. And sadly, our team ERA/the performance I have seen so far says we are not there.