Friday night, Justin Verlander threw no-hit baseball for 8.1 innings and simply overmatched the Pittsburgh Pirates in his 1-hit shutout. Yesterday, Brandon Morrow needed 107 pitches to dominate the Mets, allowing only 3 hits and one walk while striking out 8 in his shutout performance. These performances were great and some pitchers have been simply dominant all season. For a few guys, it seems that hitters have absolutely no chance. We’ve seen them no only go out and win, but not even allow the other team a chance. I’ve decided to rank this season’s most dominant pitchers but before I do, I think we should go over how I’m going to do it. Certainly, some statistical measures are important. ERA is noteworthy but WHIP is much more important. You can win games if there are runners on base every inning but you can’t really be “dominant.” For that reason, wins is almost a useless stat in this context. In addition to the stats, I’m going to use some subjective measures to evaluate the pitc
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May 19, 2012
