Millwood’s Regression

Baseball Time in Arlington charts Kevin Millwood’s increase in pitches per inning throughout the season.
Millwood’s ERA is 1.25 runs higher after the All-Star Break than before. His walks have gone way up, one reason for the higher pitch counts per inning.
While the ballooning nature of Millwood’s 2009 pitch counts remain a focal point of concern, what’s particularly disconcerting with respect to this graph is that Millwood’s inning-by-inning workload is also ballooning, with the corollary being that greater fatigue and diminished performance is to be naturally expected when a starting pitcher is still consistently logging 110-120 pitches every fifth day, but is simultaneously becoming more inefficient with those pitches. He’s effectively getting less out of more right now,Snapback Hats Sale, something which can’t possibly benefit Millwood in terms of maintaining a confident demeanor and positive body language, and the cut-throat,Fox Racing Hats Sale,Marlins look for sweep, immensely competitive nature of baseball shows no mercy to vulnerable pitchers.