| Vs. Astros | Vs. Cubs | ||||
| Exp | Actual | Exp | Actual | ||
| Carpenter | 3 | 5 | Carpenter | 3 | 4 |
| Marquis | 3 | 5 | Marquis | 3 | 1 |
| Mulder | 3 | 4 | Mulder | 3 | 3 |
| Morris | 3 | 2 | Morris | 3 | 4 |
| Suppan | 3 | 0 | Suppan | 3 | 4 |
| Clemens | 3 | 4 | Maddux | 3 | 3 |
| Oswalt | 3 | 3 | Zambrano | 3 | 4 |
| Pettitte | 3 | 3 | Prior | 3 | 4 |
| Backe | 2 | 2 | Williams | 2 | 2 |
| Rodriguez | 2 | 2 | Rusch | 2 | 2 |
| Astacio | 1 | 1 | Dempster | 1 | 1 |
| Duckworth | 0 | 1 | |||
| Carpenter-Clemens | 2 | Carpenter-Zambrano | 2 | ||
| Mulder-Clemens | 2 | Morris-Rusch | 2 | ||
| Mulder-Maddux | 3 | ||||
| Suppan-Prior | 2 | ||||
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Monday, January 30, 2006
Cardinals' Big-Game Pitchers
Following up on Friday's post about rotational matchups in big games, I looked into the Cardinals games vs. their top divisional rivals in 2005, the Cubs and Astros. So who were the Cardinals big-game pitchers? It partly depended on the opponent, but Chris Carpenter and Mark Mulder were most often slotted to start in those divisional matchups. I based the "expected" number of starts for the rivalries (in which the Cardinals played 16 head-to-head games against each) on each pitcher's portion of the team's total games started for the season.
Did the Cardinals shift their rotation to achieve these matchups or did these just occur by chance? For example, since every team uses 5 man rotations and have approximately the same number of games per week, odds would say that the #1 starters would match up during the season.
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