Carlos Zambrano & Daisuke Matsuzaka
Posted by Steve Lombardi on September 14, 2007
Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitching Season Finder, we can compare the stats of these two 26-year old pitchers this season (to date):
Cnt Player Year IP ERA+ SO Age Tm Lg G GS CG SHO GF W L W-L% SV H R ER BB ERA HR BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ Pit Str +----+-----------------+----+-----+----+---+---+---+--+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+-----+--+---+---+---+---+------+--+----+----+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+ 1 Daisuke Matsuzaka 2007 184.1 103 179 26 BOS AL 29 29 1 0 0 14 12 .538 0 175 91 91 70 4.44 23 788 701 38 2 1 12 3 2 14 16 7 0 0 4 .250 .327 .408 .735 91 3125 1997 2 Carlos Zambrano 2007 190 107 163 26 CHC NL 30 30 1 0 0 15 12 .556 0 167 95 90 92 4.26 21 821 708 33 4 3 13 5 3 17 3 2 1 0 3 .236 .333 .383 .716 87 3282 2009
Pretty close to each other, huh? It will be interesting to see how both their careers move forward after this season.