We Declare Peace on War

March 28, 2013 by Josh Robbins · Leave a Comment

The 2013 Major League Baseball season begins Sunday night. In preparation for another exciting campaign, the founders at 60ft6in.com has introduced a new pitching metric called Pitcher Evaluation ACE (PEACE). This new tool compares each pitching season to the average historical season. The structure of PEACE is similar to Factor12. However, adjustments have been made to account for […]

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Factor12 Top12 Last12

April 17, 2012 by Josh Robbins · 2 Comments

Over the last twelve MLB seasons, there have been some legendary pitching performances. The Factor12 Rating is able to quantify each successful season or failure. Where does your favorite pitcher rate against the competition? Since 2000, there have been 7569 pitching seasons. Of these occurrences, only 12 times has a pitcher recorded an F12 Rating over 33.000. […]

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The Factor12 Rating Returns

April 2, 2012 by Josh Robbins · Leave a Comment

The Factor12 Rating (F12) is an analytic measurement utilizing league average performance to compare the value of all MLB pitchers on 60ft6in.com. F12 consists of the following twelve statistics incorporating every aspect of pitching. Innings Pitched (IP); Strikeouts Minus Walks (SO-BB); Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP); Earned Run Average (ERA); Walks plus Hits per Innings Pitched […]

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Red Ruffing: HOF Perseverance

January 8, 2011 by Josh Robbins · 1 Comment

How does a pitcher start his career 39-96 and end up in the Hall of Fame?Â This is the amazing story of Charles Â Herbert â€œRedâ€ Ruffing.Â He was born on May 3, 1905 in the tiny village of Granville, Illinois.Â At an early age, Â Ruffing dropped out of school and tended to a mine ventilation […]

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The Best Pitcher Ever is?

December 15, 2010 by Josh Robbins · 3 Comments

Who is the best pitcher of all-time?Â This is a difficult question to answer due to the vast changes in the game over the past century.Â For the purpose of this exercise, relief pitchers, such as Mariano Rivera, have been eliminated from contention to increase the value of innings.Â Meanwhile, qualifiers must have played for […]

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The Myth of the 300-game Winner

November 18, 2010 by Josh Robbins · 2 Comments

It has been often written that the 300-game winner will never exist again. This is a total fallacy.Â There have been only twenty-four such occurrences in Major League Baseball history.Â Did you know that there are more members in the 3000-hit club and the 500-home run club? The role of the starting pitcher has changed […]

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Doubles, Two-Baggers, Halfway Home

November 15, 2010 by Josh Robbins · 2 Comments

Earl Webb: Doubles anomaly withstands history

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Triples: The Forgotten Base

November 9, 2010 by Josh Robbins · 3 Comments

The art of the triple sculpted by the master, John “Chief” Wilson in 1912.

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Addie Joss: The Best Unknown Hall of Fame Pitcher Ever

November 5, 2010 by Josh Robbins · 5 Comments

The story of Hall of Fame pitcher, Adrian â€œAddieâ€ Joss, is one of a remarkable baseball prodigy cut short by a fatal illness. He was born on April 12, 1880, in Woodland, Wisconsin, the only child of Swiss immigrants. Joss grew up in the small community of Juneau, before starting his minor-league career with the […]

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