Expert: Steve L - 8/4/2005

Question
Thank you for your answer.

That much I did before I asked you and it shows me the ERA for all 30 teams this year (that is my time frame) but that includes all the pitchers for each team...if I wanted to know the rank of the teams relievers...not including the starting pitchers or just the rank of the teams starting pitchers...not the relievers...how would I do that? I hear on the sports radio programs when the announcer is talking that this team has the best relievers of all the other teams or this team has the best starting pitching of all the other teams and want to know how to figure that out instead of seeing the ERA of all a teams pitchers I would like to see the ERA of their starting pitchers (only) and the ERA of their middle relieving pitchers (only) in order of best to worst for all 30 teams this year. I know I could just check out the ERA of each starting pitcher for each team and each middle relief pitcher for each team but that would take forever. I thought there was a column in the pitching stats that would list just the starting pitchers and another column that would list just the relievers ERA of all 30 teams in order of best to worst.

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Followup To
Question -
If I went to mlb.com under pitching stats and wanted to see the order (rank) of all the teams bullpens from best to worst, how would I do that?
Answer -
1.  On the STATS HOME PAGE, choose SORTABLE TEAM STATS from the menu in the left-hand column.

2. On the next screen, choose the LEAGUE you want to look at, click on PITCHING STATS and choose your TIMEFRAME.

3.  Click "GO."

Answer
mlb.com doesn't have this capability.

Go to http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/aggregate?statType=pitching&group=9&seasonTy

where you can look at ALL MLB teams and filter them by STARTER and RELIEVER.  Then choose your criteria (ERA, WHIP, BAA) and they will be ranked from best to worst.