Thanks. Stark’s best work is in articles like this, where the statistical analysis is minimal. I thought this was the key passage:

“You know what? It was my opinion. That’s all,” Moyer would say, seven months later. “Just like you [media] guys are entitled to your opinion, and the fans are entitled to their opinion and the organization is entitled to its opinion, I’m entitled to my opinion, too. So I made my point. And then it was done. And over with.”

Well, not totally, of course. The debate raged on for weeks. But one guy who had no problem with Moyer’s stance was the only guy who had a vote that counted — his manager.

“To be honest, I think he handled it very well,” Manuel said. “The biggest thing was he went to the bullpen and he didn’t say nothing. And when he got a chance to pitch, he came out and pitched good. And that was the right statement.”

It was pretty irrational for so many fans to have a problem with Moyer’s statements when Manuel had no problem with them.

On that note, man are the comments to that article awful. Everyone seems very eager to cast blame Moyer for causing all sorts of terrible things that haven’t happened yet. Even if it were to turn out that Moyer can’t pitch anymore (which is not proven, regardless of what the commenters assume), then it still won’t be Moyer’s fault if the team decides to keep sending him out there anyway. Nor will it be Moyer’s responsibility to save the organization money on a contract that the organization freely offered to him.

Is it me or does Moyer’s curve look tight?