50 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 16 Apr \ parent \ on: CJ Wilson / @Str8edgeracer AMA AMA
That's great.
The other brilliant element of this strategy is that you weren't just increasing the noise. Because you were doing something systematic, you were also biasing any results that could be estimated.
Are most athletes trying to do stuff like this now? We're so deep into the analytics age, I imagine a lot of thought and energy goes into countering it.
I don't think guys have that much self awareness right now, they're just focused on 'how sharp' they can make their pitches...which is fine for power pitchers and relievers.
But conceptually if you look at my ERA and my HR/9 stats they were way way lower than I should have been as a Texas Ranger, in that crazy stadium.
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I enjoyed pitching in Seattle and Yankee Stadium, and had pretty good success in both places. I really disliked pitching in Detroit, KC and Oakland. Pitching in SF seemed like it was WAY easier to keep the scoring down vs somewhere like Boston- so as you move around you start to understand how ERA+ and FIP make winners and losers more value averaged across the league.
I got to pitch against Halladay in Philly, and batted against him. It was truly a high water mark of my career.