Originally Posted by
MikeS21
HB, all I can tell you is that for the Reds teams I watched, the ERA stat worked just fine. The ones with the lower ERA's were the pitchers who tended to be dependable game after game. Of course those Reds pitchers in the 70's benefited greatly from defense. They had four Gold Glovers straight up the middle (C, 2B, SS, CF). I guess that made them lucky. But if lucky can bring World Series titles, I can live with lucky.
You pasted a quote from another post that outlined Ondrusek's 2012 numbers:
As I went back through the stats, 25 out his 47 appearances have come against teams with winning records, and 12 appearances were against teams who were in first place in their division. He went his first 17 appearances and gave up NO runs.
Finally, on May 17th, he had a bad game and gave up five runs (in NY, not GABP). Take away that one appearance and his ERA drops to 1.84 for the season.
Honestly, I've never been a Logan Odrusek champion - mainly because I've listened to and believed all the complaints about him. But the more I look at Ondrusek's stats, the more I wonder why all the uproar. I'm not sure what else Logan Ondrusek can do.
Is Ondrusek lucky? Probably. But his luck has been going on for about three years and at some point, you have to start wondering if some of it is actual skill, an not luck.