BABIPS For Spot Starters - Justin Masterson & Josh Banks

by faketeams on Jun 1, 2008 2:01 PM EDT in Baseball

The Leaders & Laggards for BABIP are just for those starting pitchers who have made three or more starts. I did that to filter out the pitcher who had just a spot start or hasn't made it through the rotation more than twice. But why not show those starters who have just a start or two? Wouldn't they be prime candidates for a violent correction? There are a few of these who are scheduled to start twice this week assuming a full week of games.

Justin Masteron pitches Tuesday for the Boston Red Sox and will be a pitcher fantasy teams want to know a lot about whether for keeper leagues next season or those who believe a Red Sox starter is an excellent play on Wins this year. Don't you want to know that he has a BABIP of .138 in his two starts this year?

How about San Diego Padres fill-in Josh Banks who just threw nine scoreless innings? Don't you want to know if he was just lucky according to BABIP? A .292 BABIP says he didn't accumulate 17 scoreless innings this season due to an unusually low BABIP.

BABIPs for starters with one or two starts:

NAME	TEAM	IP	SO	BB	BABIP	M/T?
Dontrelle Willis	DET	6	0	11	0.111	TUES
Justin Masterson	BOS	12.3	9	7	0.138	TUES
Pedro Martinez	NYN	3.3	1	1	0.2	TUES
Cha Seung Baek	SDN	30	15	13	0.242	MON
Matt Albers	BAL	39	21	14	0.254	NO
Chan Ho Park	LAN	33.7	16	16	0.262	NO
Kip Wells	COL	19.7	16	14	0.275	NO
Jack Cassel	HOU	12	3	2	0.275	NO
R.A. Dickey	SEA	16.7	6	5	0.276	NO
Seth McClung	MIL	30	25	19	0.277	TUES
Kyle Davies	KCA	5	2	3	0.278	NO
A.J. Murray	TEX	5.3	2	2	0.286	NO
Josh Banks	SDN	17	10	5	0.292	NO
Michael O'Connor	WAS	9	4	10	0.296	NO
Bartolo Colon	BOS	12	8	3	0.297	NO
Jeremy Sowers	CLE	10.3	5	3	0.303	NO
Jon Lieber	CHN	30.7	17	3	0.32	NO
Nick Masset	CHA	24	23	15	0.323	NO
Clayton Kershaw	LAN	9.7	9	5	0.333	NO
Brad Thompson	SLN	17.7	13	10	0.353	NO
Douglas Mathis	TEX	11.3	4	8	0.357	TUES
Mike Parisi	SLN	18.3	12	8	0.359	NO
Glendon Rusch	COL	4.7	4	1	0.471	NO