2011 American League Pitching Leaders

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Pennant Winner: Texas Rangers

AL Most Valuable Player: Justin Verlander

AL Cy Young: Justin Verlander

AL Rookie of the Year: Jeremy Hellickson

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American League Pitching Leaders

Wins Above Replacement--all

Wins Above Replacement A single number that presents the number of wins the player added to the team above what a replacement player (think AAA or AAAA) would add. Scale for a single-season: 8+ MVP Quality, 5+ All-Star Quality, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Reserve, < 0 Replacement Level Developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com

1. Verlander • DET 8.6

2. Ellsbury • BOS 8.3

3. Bautista • TOR 8.3

4. Pedroia • BOS 7.9

5. Cabrera • DET 7.6

6. Zobrist • TBR 7.6

7. Gordon • KCR 7.3

8. Longoria • TBR 7.2

9. Kinsler • TEX 7.0

10. González • BOS 6.9

WAR for Pitchers

Wins Above Replacement for Pitchers A single number that presents the number of wins the player added to the team above what a replacement player (think AAA or AAAA) would add. This value includes defensive support and includes additional value for high leverage situations. Scale: 8+ MVP Quality, 5+ All-Star Quality, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Reserve, < 0 Replacement Level Developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com

1. Verlander • DET 8.6

2. Weaver • LAA 6.9

3. Sabathia • NYY 6.4

4. Romero • TOR 6.4

5. Beckett • BOS 5.8

6. Shields • TBR 5.8

7. Fister • 2TM 5.1

8. Wilson • TEX 4.9

9. Gonzalez • OAK 4.4

10. Lester • BOS 4.3

Earned Run Average

9 * ER / IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played. Bold indicates lowest ERA using current stats Gold means awarded ERA title at end of year.

1. Verlander • DET 2.40

2. Weaver • LAA 2.41

3. Shields • TBR 2.82

4. Fister • 2TM 2.83

5. Beckett • BOS 2.89

6. Romero • TOR 2.92

7. Wilson • TEX 2.94

8. Hellickson • TBR 2.95

9. Sabathia • NYY 3.00

10. Gonzalez • OAK 3.12

Wins

1. Verlander • DET 24

2. Sabathia • NYY 19

3. Weaver • LAA 18

4. Gonzalez • OAK 16

Haren • LAA 16

Holland • TEX 16

Nova • NYY 16

Shields • TBR 16

Wilson • TEX 16

10. Lester • BOS 15

Romero • TOR 15

Scherzer • DET 15

Win-Loss %

Win-Loss Percentage W / (W + L) For players, leaders need one decision for every ten team games. For managers, minimum to qualify for leading is 320 games.

1. Verlander • DET .828

2. Nova • NYY .800

3. Holland • TEX .762

4. Sabathia • NYY .704

5. Wilson • TEX .696

6. Weaver • LAA .692

7. Beckett • BOS .650

8. Tomlin • CLE .632

9. Lester • BOS .625

Scherzer • DET .625

Walks & Hits per IP

(BB + H)/IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played

1. Verlander • DET 0.920

2. Weaver • LAA 1.010

3. Haren • LAA 1.024

4. Beckett • BOS 1.026

5. Shields • TBR 1.043

6. Fister • 2TM 1.063

7. Tomlin • CLE 1.077

8. Pineda • SEA 1.099

9. McCarthy • OAK 1.131

10. Ogando • TEX 1.136

Hits per 9 IP

9 x H / IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played

1. Verlander • DET 6.239

2. Beckett • BOS 6.808

3. Weaver • LAA 6.950

4. Hellickson • TBR 6.952

5. Pineda • SEA 7.000

6. Shields • TBR 7.039

7. Romero • TOR 7.040

8. Wilson • TEX 7.697

9. Price • TBR 7.703

10. Lester • BOS 7.795

Bases On Balls per 9 IP

9 x BB / IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played

1. Tomlin • CLE 1.143

2. Haren • LAA 1.246

3. McCarthy • OAK 1.318

4. Fister • 2TM 1.539

5. Pavano • MIN 1.622

6. Francis • KCR 1.918

7. Buehrle • CHW 1.972

8. Verlander • DET 2.044

9. Floyd • CHW 2.091

10. Weaver • LAA 2.139

Strikeouts per 9 IP

9 x SO / IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played

1. Morrow • TOR 10.188

2. Pineda • SEA 9.105

3. Verlander • DET 8.964

4. Gonzalez • OAK 8.777

5. Price • TBR 8.746

6. Sabathia • NYY 8.722

7. Hernández • SEA 8.551

8. Lester • BOS 8.546

9. Wilson • TEX 8.301

10. Burnett • NYY 8.180

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Valverde • DET 75

2. Peralta • TBR 71

Pérez • CLE 71

Smith • CLE 71

5. Bard • BOS 70

Robertson • NYY 70

7. Capps • MIN 69

Johnson • BAL 69

Sipp • CLE 69

10. Collins • KCR 68

Saves

1. Valverde • DET 49

2. Rivera • NYY 44

3. League • SEA 37

4. Perez • CLE 36

5. Walden • LAA 32

Feliz • TEX 32

7. Papelbon • BOS 31

8. Santos • CHW 30

9. Soria • KCR 28

10. Farnsworth • TBR 25

Innings Pitched

1. Verlander • DET 251.0

2. Shields • TBR 249.1

3. Haren • LAA 238.1

4. Sabathia • NYY 237.1

5. Weaver • LAA 235.2

6. Hernández • SEA 233.2

7. Santana • LAA 228.2

8. Romero • TOR 225.0

9. Price • TBR 224.1

10. Wilson • TEX 223.1

Strikeouts

1. Verlander • DET 250

2. Sabathia • NYY 230

3. Shields • TBR 225

4. Hernández • SEA 222

5. Price • TBR 218

6. Wilson • TEX 206

7. Morrow • TOR 203

8. Weaver • LAA 198

9. Gonzalez • OAK 197

10. Haren • LAA 192

Games Started

1. Cahill • OAK 34

Haren • LAA 34

Price • TBR 34

Verlander • DET 34

Wilson • TEX 34

6. Hernández • SEA 33

Masterson • CLE 33

Pavano • MIN 33

Sabathia • NYY 33

Santana • LAA 33

Scherzer • DET 33

Shields • TBR 33

Weaver • LAA 33

Complete Games

Complete Game

1. Shields • TBR 11

2. McCarthy • OAK 5

Hernández • SEA 5

4. Santana • LAA 4

Romero • TOR 4

Holland • TEX 4

Haren • LAA 4

Vargas • SEA 4

Verlander • DET 4

Weaver • LAA 4

Shutouts

Shutouts No runs allowed and a complete game.

1. Holland • TEX 4

Shields • TBR 4

3. Vargas • SEA 3

Haren • LAA 3

5. Weaver • LAA 2

Verlander • DET 2

Romero • TOR 2

8. Bergesen • BAL 1

Cecil • TOR 1

Colón • NYY 1

Danks • CHW 1

Duensing • MIN 1

Hellickson • TBR 1

Hughes • NYY 1

Jackson • CHW 1

Lewis • TEX 1

Liriano • MIN 1

Beckett • BOS 1

Ogando • TEX 1

Pavano • MIN 1

Peavy • CHW 1

Sabathia • NYY 1

Santana • LAA 1

Wilson • TEX 1

Stewart • 2TM 1

McCarthy • OAK 1

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Lewis • TEX 35

2. Burnett • NYY 31

3. Scherzer • DET 29

4. Guthrie • BAL 26

Romero • TOR 26

Santana • LAA 26

Shields • TBR 26

8. Wakefield • BOS 25

9. Penny • DET 24

Tomlin • CLE 24

Verlander • DET 24

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Gonzalez • OAK 91

2. Burnett • NYY 83

3. Cahill • OAK 82

4. Romero • TOR 80

5. Lester • BOS 75

Liriano • MIN 75

7. Wilson • TEX 74

8. Hellickson • TBR 72

Santana • LAA 72

10. Chatwood • LAA 71

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Pavano • MIN 262

2. Sabathia • NYY 230

3. Francis • KCR 224

4. Penny • DET 222

5. Buehrle • CHW 221

6. Hernández • SEA 218

7. Cahill • OAK 214

8. Guthrie • BAL 213

9. Haren • LAA 211

Masterson • CLE 211

Strikeouts / Base On Balls

SO/W or SO/BB For recent years, pitching leaders need 1 IP per team game played. No batting leaders computed.

1. Haren • LAA 5.818

2. McCarthy • OAK 4.920

3. Verlander • DET 4.386

4. Tomlin • CLE 4.238

5. Fister • 2TM 3.946

6. Sabathia • NYY 3.770

7. Weaver • LAA 3.536

8. Shields • TBR 3.462

9. Price • TBR 3.460

10. Colón • NYY 3.375

Home Runs per 9 IP

9 x HR / IP For recent years, leaders need 1 IP per team game played

1. Fister • 2TM 0.458

2. Masterson • CLE 0.458

3. McCarthy • OAK 0.580

4. Harrison • TEX 0.630

5. Sabathia • NYY 0.645

6. Wilson • TEX 0.645

7. Nova • NYY 0.708

8. Hernández • SEA 0.732

9. Haren • LAA 0.755

10. Gonzalez • OAK 0.757

Losses

1. Guthrie • BAL 17

2. Francis • KCR 16

3. Hernández • CLE 15

4. Cahill • OAK 14

Duensing • MIN 14

Hernández • SEA 14

7. Floyd • CHW 13

Pavano • MIN 13

Price • TBR 13

Vargas • SEA 13

Fister • 2TM 13

Earned Runs

Earned Runs Allowed

1. Lackey • BOS 114

2. Hernández • CLE 110

3. Burnett • NYY 109

4. Penny • DET 107

5. Pavano • MIN 106

6. Hochevar • KCR 103

7. Guthrie • BAL 100

8. Francis • KCR 98

Lewis • TEX 98

10. Cahill • OAK 96

Porcello • DET 96

Scherzer • DET 96

Wild Pitches

1. Burnett • NYY 25

2. Cahill • OAK 15

Wakefield • BOS 15

4. Floyd • CHW 12

Hernández • SEA 12

Morrow • TOR 12

Porcello • DET 12

Scherzer • DET 12

9. Drabek • TOR 11

Lackey • BOS 11

Nova • NYY 11

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Lackey • BOS 19

2. Aceves • BOS 15

3. Hernández • CLE 14

Romero • TOR 14

5. Morrow • TOR 12

Fister • 2TM 12

7. Floyd • CHW 11

Lester • BOS 11

Masterson • CLE 11

10. Wilson • TEX 10

Batters Faced

1. Sabathia • NYY 985

2. Shields • TBR 975

3. Verlander • DET 969

4. Hernández • SEA 964

5. Pavano • MIN 955

6. Haren • LAA 953

7. Santana • LAA 949

8. Weaver • LAA 926

9. Price • TBR 918

10. Romero • TOR 917

Games Finished

Games Finished Credited to the last pitcher to appear for a team in a game. Complete Games are not counted as Games Finished.

1. Valverde • DET 70

2. League • SEA 60

3. Perez • CLE 57

4. Feliz • TEX 56

5. Papelbon • BOS 54

Rivera • NYY 54

7. Farnsworth • TBR 51

8. Santos • CHW 50

9. Gregg • BAL 48

10. Soria • KCR 47

Adjusted ERA+

ERA+ 100*[lgERA/ERA] Adjusted to the player’s ballpark(s).

1. Verlander • DET 172

2. Weaver • LAA 156

3. Wilson • TEX 150

4. Beckett • BOS 149

5. Romero • TOR 146

6. Sabathia • NYY 143

7. Fister • 2TM 138

8. Shields • TBR 134

9. Harrison • TEX 130

10. Gonzalez • OAK 129

Fielding Independent Pitching

Fielding Independent Pitching this stat measures a pitcher's effectiveness at preventing HR, BB, HBP and causing SO <tt>(13*HR + 3*(BB+HBP) - 2*SO)/IP + Constantlg</tt> The constant is set so that each season major-league average FIP is the same as the major-league avg ERA

1. McCarthy • OAK 2.86

2. Sabathia • NYY 2.88

3. Haren • LAA 2.98

4. Verlander • DET 2.99

5. Fister • 2TM 3.02

6. Hernández • SEA 3.13

7. Weaver • LAA 3.20

8. Wilson • TEX 3.24

9. Masterson • CLE 3.28

10. Price • TBR 3.32

Adj. Pitching Runs

Adjusted Pitching Runs A set of formulas developed by Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer and others that estimates a pitcher’s total contributions to a team’s runs total via linear weights. 0.0 is an avg performance, <0 is worse than avg and >0 is better than avg

1. Verlander • DET 48

2. Weaver • LAA 40

3. Sabathia • NYY 32

4. Wilson • TEX 30

5. Beckett • BOS 30

6. Romero • TOR 30

7. Shields • TBR 30

8. Fister • 2TM 25

9. Robertson • NYY 23

10. Hellickson • TBR 20

Adj. Pitching Wins

Adjusted Pitching Wins A set of formulas developed by Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer and others that estimates a pitcher’s total contributions to a team’s wins with his arm. 0.0 is an avg performance, <0 is worse than avg and >0 is better than avg

1. Verlander • DET 5.2

2. Weaver • LAA 4.4

3. Sabathia • NYY 3.4

4. Beckett • BOS 3.2

5. Wilson • TEX 3.2

6. Romero • TOR 3.2

7. Shields • TBR 3.1

8. Fister • 2TM 2.7

9. Robertson • NYY 2.3

10. Hellickson • TBR 2.1

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)

Base-Out Runs Saved Given the bases occupied/out situation, how many runs did the pitcher save in the resulting play. Compared to average, so 0 is average, and above 0 is better than average

1. Verlander • DET 51.82

2. Weaver • LAA 47.91

3. Shields • TBR 39.37

4. Sabathia • NYY 34.82

5. Romero • TOR 33.57

6. Beckett • BOS 33.22

7. Robertson • NYY 27.85

8. Haren • LAA 26.94

9. Hellickson • TBR 26.78

10. Wilson • TEX 26.25

Win Probability Added (WPA)

Win Probability Added by Pitcher Given average teams, this is the change in probability. See <a href='https://www.baseball-reference.com/about/wpa.shtml'>Win Expectancy explainer</a> for details.

1. Weaver • LAA 5.1

2. Verlander • DET 5.0

3. Shields • TBR 4.2

4. Haren • LAA 4.2

5. Robertson • NYY 4.1

6. Valverde • DET 4.1

7. Sale • CHW 3.7

8. Romero • TOR 3.5

9. Beckett • BOS 3.3

10. Rivera • NYY 3.3

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)

Situational Wins (WPA/LI) It is the sum of WPA divided by the leverage index for each play. WPA depends greatly on the context of the at bats. This stat does not.

1. Verlander • DET 6.3

2. Weaver • LAA 4.4

3. Shields • TBR 3.4

4. Sabathia • NYY 3.2

5. Beckett • BOS 3.1

6. Haren • LAA 3.0

7. Fister • 2TM 2.7

8. Romero • TOR 2.5

9. Ogando • TEX 2.4

10. Price • TBR 2.2

Championship WPA (cWPA)

Championship Win Probability Added by Pitcher Given average teams, this is the change in probability of winning the World Series, displayed in percentage points. See <a href='https://www.baseball-reference.com/about/wpa.shtml'>Win Expectancy explainer</a> for details.

1. Verlander • DET 4.2

2. Weaver • LAA 3.8

3. Haren • LAA 3.3

4. Shields • TBR 3.2

5. Valverde • DET 3.1

6. Aceves • BOS 2.7

7. Sabathia • NYY 2.7

8. Wilson • TEX 2.2

9. Robertson • NYY 2.1

10. Masterson • CLE 2.0

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)

Base-Out Wins Saved This is the number of wins above average the player was worth by their performance measured by the 24 base-out situations.

1. Verlander • DET 5.7

2. Weaver • LAA 5.5

3. Shields • TBR 4.5

4. Sabathia • NYY 3.6

5. Romero • TOR 3.5

6. Beckett • BOS 3.5

7. Hellickson • TBR 3.0

8. Haren • LAA 3.0

9. Robertson • NYY 2.8

10. Fister • 2TM 2.7

A ** by the stat's value indicates the player had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year. In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total. The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order.

For rate stats, generally a minimum of 3.1 Plate Appearances/Team Game (batting), 1.0 IP/Team Game (pitching), 0.67 Gm and Chances/Team Game (fielding), 0.2 SB att/Team Game (catchers), 0.1 SB att/Team Game (baserunners only since 1951), and 0.1 decision/Team Game (W-L%) is needed for single-season leaderboards. For pitcher fielding the minimums are reduced by a third. For LF, CF, RF fielding stats, we only have reliable data since 1898, so all leaders are since 1898. Explanation of min. requirements