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Offline welch

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Re: Strasburg Contract
« Reply #50: October 19, 2021, 02:05:51 PM »
the era and the strike percentage look like "hmmm" numbers, if I understand p correctly ( reject the null hypothesis that the observed change is merely random, lower p the more likely that the null can be rejected), but I'll defer to stats folks.  Makes some sense if you think mechanically he can come back and throw but the command is off and can get pounded.  Of course, if Stras can pitch backwards, he can be very effective with curves.

I also thought, well, maybe they can throw strikes down the middle, more or less, but can't throw to the unhittable spots. My conclusion: Strasburg is not hopeless. On the hopeful side, he was pitching well early this season. Harvey had lost it for several years before TOS.