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Rough Starts For Yankees Starters In The Stein Era

Posted by Steve Lombardi on April 14, 2010

Javier Vazquez has gotten off to a rough start in his second tour of duty in Yankeeland. In his first two starts of the season he's allowed 4+ ER twice while going less than six innings in each contest. So, how many other starting pitchers have left the starting gate this poorly since the Steinbrenner family has owned the team. Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitching Game Finder, we can look for these types of things - and, here's the answer:

Rk Player Year #Matching   W L W-L% ERA GS CG SHO SV IP H ER HR BB SO WHIP
1 Chien-Ming Wang 2009 3 Ind. Games 0 3 .000 34.50 3 0 0 0 6.0 23 23 2 6 2 4.83
2 Dwight Gooden 1996 3 Ind. Games 0 3 .000 11.47 3 0 0 0 13.1 20 17 2 11 14 2.33
3 Jaret Wright 2005 2 Ind. Games 1 1 .500 13.50 2 0 0 0 9.1 19 14 2 4 8 2.46
4 Bob Wickman 1993 2 Ind. Games 1 0 1.000 7.84 2 0 0 0 10.1 12 9 1 10 2 2.13
5 Chien-Ming Wang 2006 2 Ind. Games 0 1 .000 8.74 2 0 0 0 11.1 16 11 1 4 2 1.76
6 Scott Sanderson 1991 2 Ind. Games 0 0   14.14 2 0 0 0 7.0 18 11 3 1 4 2.71
7 Rick Rhoden 1988 2 Ind. Games 0 2 .000 15.95 2 0 0 0 7.1 15 13 2 7 5 3.00
8 Bob Ojeda 1994 2 Ind. Games 0 0   24.00 2 0 0 0 3.0 11 8 1 6 3 5.67
9 Mike Mussina 2004 2 Ind. Games 0 2 .000 11.00 2 0 0 0 9.0 19 11 2 4 3 2.56
10 Terry Mulholland 1994 2 Ind. Games 1 1 .500 12.00 2 0 0 0 9.0 15 12 1 4 5 2.11
11 Tim Leary 1991 2 Ind. Games 1 0 1.000 9.00 2 0 0 0 11.0 14 11 2 5 11 1.73
12 Dave LaPoint 1989 2 Ind. Games 0 1 .000 8.18 2 0 0 0 11.0 13 10 3 1 10 1.27
13 Jimmy Key 1996 2 Ind. Games 0 2 .000 10.38 2 0 0 0 8.2 18 10 1 4 7 2.54
14 Tommy John 1988 2 Ind. Games 0 0   18.69 2 0 0 0 4.1 14 9 2 1 2 3.46
15 Catfish Hunter 1978 2 Ind. Games 0 2 .000 15.63 2 0 0 0 6.1 12 11 2 5 2 2.68
16 Catfish Hunter 1975 2 Ind. Games 0 1 .000 11.00 2 0 0 0 9.0 12 11 2 4 4 1.78
17 Sterling Hitchcock 1995 2 Ind. Games 0 2 .000 12.15 2 0 0 0 6.2 15 9 1 4 3 2.85
18 Andy Hawkins 1989 2 Ind. Games 0 2 .000 15.00 2 0 0 0 9.0 20 15 2 5 4 2.78
19 Andy Hawkins 1991 2 Ind. Games 0 1 .000 8.68 2 0 0 0 9.1 16 9 3 3 3 2.04
20 Ron Guidry 1983 2 Ind. Games 0 1 .000 11.25 2 0 0 0 8.0 12 10 2 5 7 2.13
21 David Cone 1997 2 Ind. Games 0 2 .000 6.75 2 0 0 0 12.0 16 9 5 8 11 2.00
22 David Cone 2000 2 Ind. Games 0 1 .000 14.09 2 0 0 0 7.2 13 12 1 10 7 3.00
23 David Cone 1998 2 Ind. Games 0 1 .000 14.90 2 0 0 0 9.2 18 16 1 6 7 2.48
24 Roger Clemens 2002 2 Ind. Games 0 2 .000 12.54 2 0 0 0 9.1 15 13 1 8 11 2.46
25 Shawn Chacon 2006 2 Ind. Games 1 1 .500 7.59 2 0 0 0 10.2 15 9 2 4 9 1.78
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 4/14/2010.

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So, in some ways, this is the 26th time since 1973 that a Yankees starting pitcher has started out poorly over his first few starts of the season. That's not very often, is it, for a unit like the Yankees (who is usually a pretty good team)?

Doesn't mean that Vazquez is cooked this season. Just means that he's not entirely alone in this department...although it's not a very big team picture here.

Related posts:

    Completed Yankees Seasons Under Big Stein
    CC Best Overall Stein Import At “Jack” Since Moose & Cat?
    Fraction of decisions going to starters
    All 9 starters hit and score
    Starters Setting the Tone

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2 Responses to “Rough Starts For Yankees Starters In The Stein Era”

  1. Dave Says:
    April 15th, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    How does a person search for batting stats and pitching stats at the same time?
    (some stat for a pitcher combined with batting...quickest to get 5 wins and a hit during each win...) something like that.

  2. Gerry Says:
    April 15th, 2010 at 7:29 pm

    That's the Holy Grail of search engines.

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