Recte's BR tidbit of the day- 10/23/07 (Jeff Suppan)

[recte44]

Part of my morning routine is I'll type some random player that popped into my mind into BR.com, and follow resulting player links until I find out something I didn't know before. I think this might be cool to share with everyone.

 

Today's fact is scary- check out Jeff Suppan's #1 most similar pitcher.

Link

 

Yikes!

[splitterpfj]

I'm getting a "file not found" message.

[brewers19]

Should be good now.

[TooLiveBrew]

Not a bad list of comps. One thing that really bugs me about BR is that they never update a guy's height/weight. No way Jeff Suppan is still just 200 lbs.

[JJHardy7]

Jaime Navarro? Wow. I would've never guessed that. Scary.

[JohnBriggs12]

Suppan is not similar to Navarro at all. Navarro's best seasons, 17-11, 3.33 and 14-6, 3.28 are far superior to Suppan's.

 

Conversely Suppan's worst seasons are far better than Navarro's worst seasons.

 

Suppan is consistent and predictable into his 30's. Navarro was inconsistent and unpredictable and basically done being an effective pitcher at age 30.

[sbrylski]

Suppan is not similar to Navarro at all.

The computer is doing is comparing their career stats - and they are very similar there.

 

 

 Sim Player From To Yrs W L WL% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA+
+---+--------------------+---------+--+---+---+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+
Jeff Suppan 1995-2007 13 118 113 .511 4.61 351 335 6 16 5 0 2071.3 2272 1155 1060 265 680 1162 100
978 Jaime Navarro 1989-1999 11 116 120 .492 4.62 349 302 15 32 8 2 2022.0 2259 1162 1039 205 667 1097 90 

 

You are right, they way they accomplished those stats and their future projection may be different - but career stats are crazy similar.