STARTERS: Spring Cmd leaders 2014
Mar 30 2014
Spring training stats often are misleading, especially for starting pitchers.
They come in small sample sizes, so it's risky to put a lot of stock into them. And they usually aren't generated against a team's best bats.
That said, command (K/BB) ratio can be a useful measure of spring training performance for young pitchers or those who may have showed signs of a breakout last season.
Here are the command ratio leaders among starting pitchers so far this spring:
Name League Team | IP ERA WHIP | Ctl Dom Cmd ================== ====== ==== | == ==== ==== | === ==== ==== Wainwright, Adam NL STL | 22 1.59 0.66 | 0.4 7.3 18.0 Pineda, Michael AL NYY | 15 1.20 1.00 | 0.6 9.6 ...
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