{"id":48131,"date":"2021-06-22T11:52:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=48131"},"modified":"2021-06-22T11:52:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:52:46","slug":"reliever-rankings-20210620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2021\/06\/22\/reliever-rankings-20210620\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliever Rankings, June 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reliever Rankings, June 20<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Starting this week, the Reliever Rankings for 2021 will be different. They are now clutch<\/em> reliever rankings. Mop-up duty or pitching while narrowly behind, while important, is not what makes a relief corps earn its keep. Pitching scoreless innings in tie games or with a narrow lead is what does it.<\/p>\n

Teams are ranked by league in the following categories: Goose Egg percentage (GE%), Broken Egg percentage (BE%), and GE per BE (GE\/BE). These ranks are averaged to get their overall ranking. The reason we are looking at Goose Eggs \u2014 a clutch relief stat invented by Nate Silver \u2014 and not saves is that Goose Eggs give a better indication of clutch performance. Plus, they go inning-by-inning instead of game-by-game. (The short version: A Goose Egg is a scoreless inning of relief in the seventh inning or later of either a tie game or one where his team holds a narrow lead. When the pitcher allows an earned run in that situation, it is a Broken Egg. If he allows an unearned run or an inherited run, it is a Meh. In chess terms, that\u2019s akin to a stalemate.)<\/p>\n

We will look at the National League first this week, American League fans. Away we go!<\/p>\n

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NL Reliever Rankings<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1<\/td>\nChicago Cubs<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nSt. Louis Cardinals<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nSan Diego Padres<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nMilwaukee Brewers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5 (T)<\/td>\nLos Angeles Dodgers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5 (T)<\/td>\nPittsburgh Pirates<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nNew York Mets<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nCincinnati Reds<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nSan Francisco Giants<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nWashington Nationals<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nMiami Marlins<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nPhiladelphia Phillies<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nAtlanta Braves<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nColorado Rockies<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nArizona Diamondbacks<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n