Dellin Betances, Mariano Rivera, and Comparisons

The Yankees manager Joe Girardi had an interview with ESPN's Andrew Marchand recently and all but compared Mariano Rivera's 1996 season to Dellin Betances' 2014 season. That sounds really familiar, probably because I wrote the same exact thing SEEN HERE on June 3. Just for fun, since we were on the subject, I decided to take a look at the stats through 95 games in their first full season with New York and the stats may surprise some. For simplicity sake I wen't through June to be posted here or this would be a nine mile long post, you get the gist though.

Mariano Rivera 1996:

Rk	Date	Inngs	Dec	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	BF	Pit	Str	StL	AB	Entered
1	Apr 6	6-7		2.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.00	6	23	17	5	6	6b --- 0 out d2
2	Apr 11	6-7		1.0	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.00	7	36	19	7	4	6t --- 0 out a4
3	Apr 13	6-7		1.2	1	1	1	2	3	0	0	1.93	8	39	23	3	6	6t 1-3 1 out d1
4	Apr 16	8-GF(8)		1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.59	3	15	11	3	3	8b --- 0 out d4
5	Apr 17	6-7		2.0	3	2	2	2	3	0	0	3.52	10	52	35	9	8	6b --- 0 out d5
6	Apr 19	4-6		3.0	3	0	0	1	5	0	0	2.53	13	63	42	8	12	4b 12- 0 out d3
7	Apr 22	6-8	H(1)	3.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1.98	9				9	6b --- 0 out a3
8	Apr 26	6-8	W(1-0)	3.0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	1.62	10				9	6t 12- 0 out d4
9	Apr 28	6-8	W(2-0)	3.0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	1.37	10	55	38	3	9	6t --- 0 out d1
10	Apr 30	7-8	H(2)	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.25	6				6	7b 1-3 0 out a3
May		Inngs	Dec	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	BF	Pit	Str	StL	AB	Entered
11	May 3	7-8	W(3-0)	2.0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1.14	8				7	7t --- 0 out tie
12	May 5	7-8	H(3)	2.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.05	6	36	20	5	6	7t --- 0 out a2
13	May 12	6-8	H(4)	2.1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.96	8				8	6b 1-- 2 out a1
14	May 15	6-7		1.1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0.92	4	16	13	1	4	6t -2- 2 out d4
15	May 17	9-GF	S(1)	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.89	3	8	7	3	3	9t --- 0 out a3
16	May 18	9-GF	S(2)	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.88	1	4	3	0	1	9t 12- 2 out a4
17	May 21	8-GF		2.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.83	7	19	14	3	7	8t --- 0 out a4
18	May 25	7-8	H(5)	2.0	2	1	1	1	2	0	0	1.04	9	45	29	4	7	7b --- 0 out a2
19	May 31	7-8	H(6)	2.0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.98	7				6	7b --- 0 out a1
June		Inngs	Dec	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	HBP	ERA	BF	Pit	Str	StL	AB	Entered
20	Jun 2	7-8	H(7)	1.1	2	2	2	0	1	0	1	1.42	7				6	7b -2- 1 out a2
21	Jun 4	7-8	H(8)	2.0	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	1.35	9	39	31	4	7	7t -2- 0 out a1
22	Jun 7	7-8	BS(1)	2.0	2	1	1	0	3	0	0	1.50	8	30	21	2	8	7b 1-- 0 out a2
23	Jun 10	7-8	H(9)	2.0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1.43	8				8	7b --- 0 out a2
24	Jun 16	6-8	H(10)	2.2	3	1	1	1	5	0	0	1.54	12	59	39	8	11	6t --- 0 out a2
25	Jun 21(2)	6-8		3.0	3	1	1	0	5	0	0	1.63	12	47	35	5	12	6b --- 0 out a5
26	Jun 25(2)	6-8	H(11)	3.0	1	0	0	1	5	0	0	1.54	11	50	33	7	10	6b 12- 0 out a4
27	Jun 28	7-9	L(3-1)	2.1	4	3	3	2	2	1	0	1.96	12	47	32	6	10	7t --- 0 out tie
30	Jul 4	8-8	H(14)	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.86	3	16	9	3	3	8t --- 0 out a2
				107.2	73	25	25	34	130	1	2	2.09	425

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Generated 7/19/2014.

Dellin Betances 2014:

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9
2014 ★	26	4	0	1.000	1.42	41	5	1	57.0	23	9	9	1	16	87	281	1.31	0.684	3.6	0.2	2.5	13.7

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It is also worth mentioning, and has been mentioned here on the blog a few times, that John Wetteland was 30 years old when the Yankees let him go after the 1996 season. David Robertson is currently 30 years old and a free agent after the 2014 season. Obviously that was a different time and the Yankees had many more financial restrictions back then but as long as both seasons end in a World Series victory I'll take it.