“I don’t know whether you know it, but baseball’s appeal is decimal points. No other sport relies as totally on continuity, statistics, orderliness of these. Baseball fans pay more attention to numbers than CPAs.” — Hall of Fame sportswriter and Los Angeles Times icon Jim Murray
I’m not in 100 percent agreement with the late, great Mr. Murray, but there can be no denying that the Rockies’ disappointing 2019 season was defined by the statistics of their pitchers, many of them quite telling.
Here are some of the most revealing:
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