Why is Suppan so dominant at Miller Park?

[Jopal78]

I know that Suppan was a Brewer killer before signing with Milwaukee, but even in the Brewer rotation he has been a bear at Miller Park.

 

To date this year at MP....

 

GS:5, W-L: 2-0, IP: 36, ERA: 1.50, WHIP: 1.25, K:21, BB:17

 

In his career at Miller Park Suppan has pitched like this:

 

GS:29, W-L:16-3, IP:191.2, ERA: 2.86, WHIP: 1.32, K:111, BB:64

 

For a pitcher with a career era of 4.58 and a career whip of 1.42 I am simply amazed at how Suppan pitches so well at Miller Park and yet is the definition of mediocrity on the road.

 

 

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[TooLiveBrew]

I think the fact that he's a groundball-type pitcher, and that the way MP most benefits hitters is the HR, must play a role.

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/graphs/633_P_season__ha_full_4_20080602.png

 

 

Beyond that, I'd guess that random variance plays a role. But also never, ever rule out Suppwnage.

[RickieDROPSbombs]

Soup is just a gamer.

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

I wouldn't call many Suppan performances "dominant". I go more along the lines of "Getting the Job Done". Suppan relies on his defense heavily, but it seems that even his K's are a bit higher this year. I'd have to check his K rate though.

[hauser42]

How many times does it have to be said Suppan is doing the job he was paid to do. Eat innings and keep the team in the game.

[bigredrobbo]

I'm most impressed by the fact that the OP knew the word was "dominant" and not "dominate" as it crops up in about 50% of posts that use the word!

[Invader3K]

How many times does it have to be said Suppan is doing the job he was paid to do. Eat innings and keep the team in the game.

Some people just don't get it. He definitely does what you described, the majority of the time, though.

[1992casey]

"Why does Jeff do his job better at Miller Park?" is the question at hand. I think TooLive addresses that: the park isn't friendly to ground balls and singles. I'd love to hear other theories, too.

[rluzinski]

It's just a pet peave of mine, but I wish people would say, why "HAS Suppan been dominant at Miller Park?", instead of saying IS. IS implies that we already know that Suppan should be expected to be better at Miller Park, going forward. At this point, all we know is that he has been better over a certain number of innings. You have to be careful with selecting oddities after the fact and then asking whether it's a stiatistally significant difference.

 

While it's true that Miller Park seems to inflate HR rates by between 6 and 8%, I don't think that explains much of the difference (I haven't looked at the numbers too closely, though). My guess is that the majority of the difference is just sample error. I know, I'm a stick in the mud.

[1992casey]

I think there's a definite point to your peeve. After all, Jeff only has a little under of a season's worth of starts at Miller Park.

[T B0NE 10]

He has sad he loves the mound

[JJHardy7]

I think there's a definite point to your peeve. After all, Jeff only has a little under of a season's worth of starts at Miller Park.

 

If you take a look at the stats posted in the beginning of the thread, Suppan has pitched almost 230 innings at Miller Park. How many more innings does he have to pitch before we decide it's not a "sample error"?

[1992casey]

I think 500 innings is considered a decent sample.