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The answer's in the numbers

By Rob Neyer
ESPN.com

Monday, February 9, 2004

Revisiting last Friday's column while hoping that we haven't seen the last of Robb Nen ... Rob, Your article on platoon splits was interesting, and led me to wonder if anyone has done the same sort of analysis for pitchers? I had always assumed there were some (even many?) pitchers that were absurdly more effective against hitters on one side of the plate than the other. Has this also been overstated? -- Bryce Oddly, I don't recall seeing the same sort of analysis for pitchers. Which certa ...

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