March 16, 2010

How Good is Strasburg?

There a great discussion going on in the comments to this post at The Book Blog on how well Stephen Strasburg can pitch if he plays in the majors this year. From the original THT article:

Note that even after fixing the pitcher MLEs, Stephen Strasburg still projects for a 2.86 ERA this season.

The discussion centers around what the size of the confidence interval.

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