[外電] Matt Harvey: Bloody nose
Matt Harvey: Bloody nose,
9 IP, 12 Ks, 1 H, 0 BB, 0 R, no decision in New York Mets win
By David Brown | Big League Stew
One game proves nothing usually, but if there ever has been an example of the
inanity of assigning wins and losses to individual pitchers, what happened to
right-hander Matt Harvey on Tuesday night is it.
Here's his line for the New York Mets: Nine innings, 12 strikeouts, one hit
allowed, no runs or walks and one bloody nose — which he got under control
after a messy first. Also for Harvey: A no-decision. The Mets scored a run in
the 10th to beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0 at Citi Field.
Harvey allowed only an infield single to Alex Rios with two outs in the
seventh.
Harvey not getting credit for a win because his team didn't score while he
happened to be in the game shouldn't matter, but it does matter when it comes
to getting paid. Things like wins and RBIs — another statistic largely
beyond an individual's control — frequently are a key part of arbitration
hearings and contract negotiations in general.
But just between us, wins and losses for pitchers are baloney. There are a
zillion better ways to measure how well a pitcher performed, like game score.
(Here's the formula.) Against the White Sox, Harvey posted a game score of
97, the best anyone has turned in so far this season and, as Yahoo! Sports'
own Jeff Passan said on Twitter:
Since 1916, there have been only 40 outings of nine innings or fewer with a
higher Game Score.
Only 59 pitchers have gone up to nine innings and scored at least a 97.
Taking it a step further, if you filter Passan's list to include only
pitchers who got a no-decision, it's three performances long.
Now you know something he has in common with the Big Unit. Just looking at
the lines, I'd say Harvey's is preferable. No walks, no runs allowed. Fewer
hits. That means, essentially, that Matt Harvey pitched the best anybody ever
has over nine innings without getting a decision since at least 1916. So you
also could say that his no-decision allows us to really appreciate how well
he pitched.
That should be something a guy can take to arbitration.
Yeah, the White Sox might have the worst offense in the major leagues, and
Harvey wasn't exactly pitching under pennant race pressure, but what would
you like him to do? Allow negative hits, or strike out more batters than he
faced? Well, he just might next time!
Get a load of his numbers so far: 1.28 ERA over seven outings, with 22 hits
allowed in 49 1/3 innings, with 58 strikeouts and 12 walks.
Just for reference, the best recorded game score since 1916 was Kerry Wood's
20-strikeout game in 1998 (Happy 15th anniversary, plus a day!). It was 105.
Overall, Harvey is like Wood in '98. Probably better, and just full of
possibilities. None of them should have to do with his personal won-loss
record. It's like Harvey's bloody nose. An irritation, a distraction. Blocked
by the second inning. A memory by the time it was over.
http://ppt.cc/XVeV
簡短翻：Matt Harvey投了9局，12K，只讓Alex Rios在7局時打出一支內安，
還有一隻血鼻，無關勝敗。
但是別以勝敗論投手，有許多好方法可以衡量投手，像是Game score。
(譯註：Game score是 Bill James所發明用來衡量先發投手的統計公式)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_score)
滿分114分，Harvey是97分，Jeff Passan 在 Twitter表示:
自1916年以來，在九局投球中只有40次是比Harvey高的。
還有，Harvey也是自1916以來，無關勝敗的情況下，
在九局投球裡，分數最高的投手。
而自1916以來，分數最高的是105分，在1998年
由Kerry Wood所創下的20 K。
浴血奮戰的影片：http://ppt.cc/6gkT
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