Arquimedez Bozo wrote:To reinforce the SSS nature of these stats - 3 of the walks, and 4 of the runs, came in one game. Absent that game:
CZink16 wrote:While the correlation would seem to say that Bard's heat in relief of Wakefield's knuckleball makes him more effective, I'd be inclined to disagree and attribute this to SSS. The H/9 is still not terrible in relief of the others, but it's his walk rate that jumps out at you. Unless batters are swinging at more balls when he comes in after Wakefield has pitched, I'd guess this is just statistical noise.
Dan Bard:
In relief of Wakefield: 5.1 IP 2 H 2 BB 0 R 0 ER 7 K......0.00 ERA 0.75 WHIP
In relief of others: 11 IP 12 H 7 BB 7 R 5 ER 8 K......4.09 ERA 1.72 WHIP
In relief of others: 10.7 IP, 10 H, 4 BB, 3 R, 2 ER, 7 K........ 1.68 ERA, 1.31 WHIP.
(This is not meant to say that the above numbers are at all indicative of anything. Only to illustrate the SSS.)
