Ross Ohlendorf beats Pirates in arbitration hearing to match his 2010 win total
Feb 9, 2011, 12:12 PM EDT
In the first arbitration hearing of the year Ross Ohlendorf has defeated the Pirates, meaning the 28-year-old right-hander will receive $2.025 million this season rather than the $1.4 million figure submitted by the team.
Ohlendorf won the case despite going 1-11 in 21 starts last season, which means he already has as many victories in 2011 as he had in all of 2010. Sort of.
With a 4.07 ERA in 108 innings (and a 3.92 ERA in 177 innings in 2009) he pitched much better than his ugly win-loss record suggests, so it’s interesting that Ohlendorf came out on top in a situation where rulings often come from people not particularly well-versed in modern baseball analysis.
Perhaps the Princeton graduate made a compelling case for himself or at least a compelling case against the importance of win-loss records for pitchers. Either way, it’s a victory for … well, not caring about victories.
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- Charles Gates - Feb 9, 2011 at 12:22 PM
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Ross Ohlendorf is a burrito.
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- Panda Claus - Feb 9, 2011 at 12:27 PM
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He can thank Kevin Millwood, along with his four wins and $12M 2010 salary for this one. Doesn’t look good for the teams on the other 11 players if a one-win guy wins his case right out of the box. Time to settle those cases guys.
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- phukyouk - Feb 9, 2011 at 12:36 PM
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1-11? a few more wins and he would have been a Cy young contender
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- Ace - Feb 9, 2011 at 1:11 PM
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Check this out: Phil Hughes In 2010: 18-8, 4.19 ERA. I know you’re still smarting about CC, but it’s time to let it go.
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- phukyouk - Feb 9, 2011 at 2:56 PM
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Im not upset about CC. Price should have won it. maybe even Lester. but certainly not Felix. w/e
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- BC - Feb 9, 2011 at 1:21 PM
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Wins don’t matter any more.
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- Reflex - Feb 9, 2011 at 2:24 PM
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Correction: Wins as a metric for pitching performance do not matter anymore. They matter plenty as a team metric, in fact at the end of the day they are the only metric that matters for a team.
For a pitcher? No. Nor should they.
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- spudchukar - Feb 9, 2011 at 3:59 PM
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They should matter some. Give me a pitcher who consistently gives up 3-4 runs every outing, insuring his team of a chance to win, over a guy who is superb in one outing, marginal in the next and then implodes. Same overall ERA, OBA and WHIP but in 10 outings pitcher #1 is 7-3, while #2 is 5-5.
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- Ace - Feb 9, 2011 at 4:50 PM
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Yes, a good point, Spudchukar. Quality Start Percentage is a decent metric to measure that. And what the hell, since you brought him up again in your other comment down below: Hughes and Ohlendorf had identical Quality Start Percentages of 52% last season. Weird. (I really don’t mean to single out Hughes and pick on him, I just think this is sort of fascinating.)
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- missthemexpos - Feb 9, 2011 at 12:42 PM
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That one victory was worth $600,000 to Ohlendorf. I think that at 0-12, the Pirates would win the case with their 1.4 million offer, regardless the ERA, because as ugly as 1-12 looks, a big goose egg looks even worse.
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- Chris Fiorentino - Feb 9, 2011 at 1:20 PM
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That one victory was against the Phillies on July 4th weekend…it was his first win in over a year and it was one day after Daniel McCutchen ALSO got his first win in over a year…against the Phillies as well. What a crappy July 4th weekend that was.
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- phukyouk - Feb 9, 2011 at 2:52 PM
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LMAO! the only thing i remember about July 4 weekend was Gardner hitting an inside the park HR and Thames walking off in the 9th.
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- spudchukar - Feb 9, 2011 at 4:03 PM
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If Hughes pitched like he did for the Pinstripes, but played for the Buccos, something tells me he would have a similar W-L record to Ohlendorf’s.
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- kiwicricket - Feb 9, 2011 at 5:20 PM
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If Ohlendorf pitched like he did for any other team, he would probably be making 6-8 million? (12Million with the Mets)
