Sterling at it Again

I should really stop listening to the Yankee broadcasts, this is getting ridiculous...

Once again, on my drive home yesterday from the train I turned on the Yankees game on the radio. I missed the top half of the inning, but I got the wonderful opportunity to hear Sterling talk about Martis as he warmed up for the start of the bottom of the 1st. Sterling said Martis isn't having a bad year, he then ran off Martis' numbahs: 5-1 with a 5.04 ERA, 29 walks, and 28 strikeouts. He even talked about Martis' bb/9 ratio guesstimating it at 3.5/9, it's more like 3.7 but 3.50 is still bad, although not bad quick arithmetic by Sterling . Then after stating his stats, he repeated his statement that Martis' numbahs aren't bad. He has an ERA north of 5 and the worst K/BB in the entire major leagues, how are his numahs not bad?

Ahh he has 5 wins, on a 16 win team no less! Of all the pitching stats there are wins is the most out of a pitchers control, especially when you are looking at wins for only one year, and even more especially when you are looking at only 12 starts. I'd give Sterling a break if he just talked about his 5-1 record on the worst team in baseball, but when you show us the stats and continue to say the numbahs aren't bad you just start sounding stupid. In general it's one thing to not know the stats and judge based on the little knowledge you have. It's a completely different thing to know the stats and misinterpret them, or not even interpret them at all.

Listen, Shairon Martis should not be pitching in the major leagues. He's only 22 and if he were on any other team than the Nats he'd be in AAA maybe AA. I don't mean to say that Martis is a bad pitcher, I wouldn't doubt that he could become an effective pitcher, but to state his horrible numbahs and then proceed to say how they aren't bad is just ludicrous. Sterling probably feels bad for the guy that he has to learn on the major league level (and on a certain level I do too), but don't say how a guy with more walks than strikeouts and an ERA of 5.04 has good numbahs. That's insulting to your listeners, although I suppose it would be insulting for me to call myself a listener.