November 6, 2001 – Final 2001 Relievers’ Run Expectation Report
There is simply an incredible amount of interesting stuff out there, thanks to the World Wide Web. Michael Wolverton’s work here is based in large part on a formula called ARP (Adjusted Runs Prevented).
While a lot of the results confirm what we already knew, that makes even more provocative the stuff that surprises us. Could Tony La Russa have been soooooo right about Steve Kline?
The data says, Yes.