Quote Originally Posted by The Croom Diaries View Post
Then your whole critique is on Cohen for bringing Ross in with runners on rather than Ross himself. Yet you lambast people for claiming Ross is one of the SEC's most effective pitchers saying we are afraid to criticize a baseball player.

If your point from the start was runners on when he comes in people would agree, but you keep changing your responses and blaming Ross rather than Cohen.
There are two issues. It's absolutely on Cohen on when pitchers come in. But when you are in the game giving up runs hurting other's pitchers ERA I'm going to state the obvious and say "Hey he has a low ERA, but there are 13 runs in SEC games alone he has given up (because Cohen brings in a contact pitcher with runners all over the pond) that are skewing his data."

The question of low ERA yet high opponents batting average and on base % can be answered by this. He has tons of innings logged, and I'm sure he has a very low ERA on just innings he has started. Ground ball pitchers are optimal and effective, just not when ducks are on the pond because balls in play means runs crossing the plate.