I saw a few places yesterday that played up the myth that Sabathia's velocity was down on Monday and that coupled with the use of a heating pad on a cold day it must mean that he is injured.
This story from today's Daily News continues to play up this folly. Fortunately we have fangraphs.com, a brilliant site that provides actual research and statistics to back claims that they make (imagine that!). In the humorously titled article "Sabathia Does Noth Throw No Hitter; Yankees Season Over" that was posted yesterday, author R.J. Anderson cites the actual data and shows that Sabathia's average fastball was a tad over 93 mph, while he dialed it up as high as 95 at one point. More importantly Anderson shows us that over the past three seasons Sabathia's average fastballs were 93.7, 92.9, and 93.7. All of which indicates that his poor outing on Monday had nothing to do with decreased velocity.
In a perfect world journalists, the people who get paid to report news to us, would use actual facts to report the news, rather than write articles that can match titles that are meant to alarm readers and sell papers. I know, it's a really revolutionary concept.
-Brian
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