Thursday, December 29, 2011
Fangraphs: Mariano Rivera: Thinking Man’s Cutter
”You need to use your brain to pitch effectively in the big leagues,” explained the future Hall of Famer. “You can’t go out there and do exactly what you want to do without a brain. As you get older, you mature and put your knowledge to work, It’s like when you go to school for the first time. In first grade, you’re not going to know what you know in the sixth or seventh grade. Pitching is just the same. If you don’t learn, you won’t have the success that you could have. I‘ve learned a lot over the years.”
I think this is my favorite split for Mo.
| Year | Tm | ERA | G | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | SO | HBP | BF | ERA+ | WHIP | H/9 | HR/9 | BB/9 | SO/9 |
| 1996-2003 | NYY | 2.15 | 493 | 582.2 | 444 | 151 | 139 | 26 | 147 | 531 | 13 | 2325 | 217 | 1.01 | 6.9 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 8.2 |
| 2004-2011 | NYY | 1.89 | 530 | 561.2 | 419 | 128 | 118 | 28 | 98 | 529 | 30 | 2189 | 236 | 0.92 | 6.7 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 8.5 |
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