Moving away from the win category, today's Sporcle visits another venerable column on the statline: ERA. I still like to look at a pitcher's ERA for a quick, general encapsulation of that pitcher's season. I'll use FIP, ERA+, BABIP, etc., to put things into a slightly better context, but I find it fun that a stat my grandparents were familiar with still has its uses in today's game.
Anyway, today's Sporcle will take a look at starting pitcher ERAs from 1990 forward. To make the cut, the pitcher must have qualified for the ERA title, and logged an ERA of 4 or under. I've also excluded 2020 from the list (apologies to Dallas Keuchel) due to the small sample size. That leaves us with 47 entries: how many can you name? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I've allotted 10 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints I've provided the season and the ERA.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- The highest ERA+ of the players on this list is 173, in 2014.
- Interestingly, just one player logged an ERA+ lower than 100 (99). That came in 1992.
- The highest FIP from this list was 4.77, nearly a full run higher than the pitcher's ERA (3.84, in 2008).
All data from stathead.com
