Happy Valley Hardball with a sabermetrics twist

Here’s the pitching equivalents of my top ten hitting lists. To get on the list, a pitcher must have one inning pitched for each of his team’s games. That makes it difficult for some of the top relievers to make the lists. I’ll put together a separate list that includes those guys at a later [...]

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout UncleLar Take: Although the Nits may be in the basement of the Big Ten, they are not that far out of qualifying for the Big Ten Tournament (top six get in, top two get byes). The first step toward getting back to respectability has to [...]

PSU practicing light – The Daily Collegian Online via kwout UncleLar Take: I hope something works because to date little has. I suppose the good news is that the Lions first three series have been against the three top clubs in the conference. Then again maybe those squads are only atop the conference because they’ve [...]

The Path to Finding Relief via kwout UncleLar Take: Jeff – we are all big Drew O’Neil fans here but I doubt that many of us expect that “Next year most likely, they will find him in the major leagues”. Drew has a long road ahead of him before he’ll get a shot at the [...]

You might have noticed that the PSU guys were noticeably absent from the top ten lists in my previous post. We actually happen to be the only school that did not have a player appear on one of the lists. There is a way to find many of our guys though – turn the lists [...]