Chapman, Jansen, and Kimbrel: Numbers in a Vacuum?

directly relevant to this thread's interests:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/kenley-jansen-is-mariano-rivera-2-0/

and further

http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/80554/kenley-jansen-is-breaking-records-and-advanced-stats

I don't foresee any Cy Youngs in the near future for this group. Where have you gone Steve Bedrosian and Mark Davis, Jon Heyman turns his lonely eyes to you...

― clemenza, Monday, June 12, 2017 1:32 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a cy young for any of these dudes would require the cream of the starting pitching crop in a season being a group of guys with 16-10 type seasons with ERAs around 3, while some reliever goes off for 50 saves and an ERA around 1.50, while also having some kind of intangible. like a super-dirty cap.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/kenley-jansen-is-too-busy-helping-the-dodgers-win-to-get-saves/

Don't know if the goose egg has a future, or if it's headed to the graveyard with game-winning RBIs.

even a dinosaur like Keith Hernandez said "game-winning RBIs" were a crock

never heard of this goose egg

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/goose-egg-new-save-stat-relief-pitchers/

"clutch, scoreless relief innings"

Kimbrel is a steaming pile of dogshittle. TF is he doing out there closing an AllStar game.

notching an extremely fraught save, steve shasta

14 saves and a 3.41 ERA (which is kinda like having a 6.00 ERA as a starter)--no idea why he's there either.