Let us look at this statistically and as fairly as we can. CC Sabathia has less innings pitched, 135, then Kuroda's 143.2 because of a groin injury but that is not enough of a gap to really worry me about sample size.
W/L
Sabathia 11-3
Kuroda 10-8
K/9
Sabathia 8.87
Kuroda 6.95
BB/9
Sabathia 2.27
Kuroda 2.26
HR/9
Sabathia 1.00
Kuroda 0.94
GB%
Sabathia 48.4%
Kuroda 50.1 %
ERA
Sabathia 3.53
Kuroda 3.19
FIP
Sabathia 3.38
Kuroda 3.77
WAR
Sabathia 3.2
Kuroda 2.7
WHIP
Sabathia 1.20
Kuroda 1.18
I know that this is probably irrelevant but I really love to go to fangraphs and look all the way at the bottom at look at the VALUE of a player, dollar wise, and compare it to their real salaries.
CC Sabathia
Actual Salary - $23 Million
VALUE - $14.5 Million
Hiroki Kuroda
Actual Salary - $10 Million
VALUE - $12.3 Million
While Sabathia is more "VALUABLE" then Kuroda, and is better or close to Kuroda in all the stats posted above he is also making $13 million more then Kuroda. Do not get me wrong I love Sabathia and would not want anyone else on the team starting game 1 of the season and game 1 of the playoffs but where Michael Pineda was supposed to be the #2 starter we have been looking for the last couple of years and wasn't I think we already have him and do not realize it... Hiroki Kuroda.
Plus there are worse things that could happen then a guy like Kuroda having better or comparable stats to our ace CC Sabathia....
I love that you pointed out how good Kuroda has been. And to think of all the flak he took earlier this season, and all the people that were upset over signing him.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, to be fair, Hiroki is not WIN METHOD *wink*.
I actually had him in mind when I wrote this up.
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