Quote Originally Posted by OLJWales View Post
somebody needs to splain' these stats. is Billy Bean runnin' things or something? so we lead by a wide margin regarding our pitchers striking out batters and we have a wide margin lead on our batters NOT striking out? that's the difference that puts us at a high level regarding W/L while being only slightly better than average with other stats?
A couple of other thoughts on why our record might look better than our individual stats:

Even though our 1/2 punch doesn't look that impressive, because Vandy, Ark, and even UM have strong 1/2 punches, we've still got two pitchers better than the best starting pitcher on 7 teams in the league.
Not sure if this is true, but possibly MacLeod and Bednar have been good when they're on, and really bad when they're not, and so those bad nights hurt their stats a lot while not costing many L's?
Similarly, Sims is probably worth a few wins without his pitching stats counting a lot towards our team aveages. The first time we have a lead late in an SEC weekend, we're going to get a win out of it. But that doesn't do a ton for team pitching stats because he's been used sparingly, so he moves the needle a lot with those limited innings.

Other than that, yes, it would appear to be some billy bean type stuff going on somewhere where we are maybe undervaluing some stats.