Why do some metrics love Michael Pineda?

Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY SportsWhile he has been one of the worst pitchers in the league based on results, he somehow gets a bump from peripheral metrics.

I am a lover of sabermetrics, as many of you probably know by now. I think you’re going to get a much fuller picture of the sport if you’re looking at many of the advanced metrics of the day, then pretty much any of the standard metrics used before the century began. I feel like that kind of statement is always followed by, “but here’s something that can’t be proved by sabermetrics!” I guess you could say that’s the case here, but this is more inquisitive than pejorative.

One of the areas in which publicly accessible sabermetrics is only…