MASH (12/9/2013) – Starting Pitcher DL Chances
Besides the 2014 starting pitcher disabled list (DL) predictions, have a few notes on some players.
• A few weeks ago I re-examined my 2013 starting pitcher DL predictions. The results were dead on as usual. For the 2014 predictions, I have put them in a spreadsheet for everyone to complain about. The main DL percentage chance is based off of age, MLB experience and past injuries. Additionally, I have added an indication if the player has any other injury inducing traits like heavy breaking ball usage and the inability to throw strikes. While the entire list is available on the spreadsheet, here are the 10 least likely pitchers to go on the DL who also have no other injury indicators.
| Name | DL Chance |
| Rick Porcello | 27.6% |
| Clayton Kershaw | 28.0% |
| Mike Leake | 29.0% |
| Mike Minor | 29.8% |
| Patrick Corbin | 30.0% |
| Julio Teheran | 30.2% |
| Chris Sale | 30.3% |
| Gio Gonzalez | 30.4% |
| Shelby Miller | 30.4% |
| Jose Quintana | 30.6% |
• Corey Hart has been “Cleared!” to begin baseball activities. Keep an eye on where he goes as he could be nice 2014 buy low canidate.
• Johnny Cueto is “feeling 100 percent right now” and is wanting to pitch in the Caribbean this winter. I think he will still be injury risk until he takes away the twist in his rotation.
• A few injury risk assessment have been published recently. Jeff Sullivan here at FanGraphs and RK at MakeNoLittlePlans each wrote about Jacoby Ellsbury‘s injury risk. At my own blog, baseballheatmaps.com, I did quick look at Doug Fister’s injury risk.
Possible Players on the DL to Start the 2014 Season
(*) 15 Day Disabled List
(**) 60 Day Disabled List
(***) 7 Day Concussion List
(****) Free Agent
Red colored entries are updates since last report.
Major League Report
Minor League Report
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Any recommendation as to how to incorporate the DL chances into projections for games started? For example, if Liriano has a 44.7% chance of hitting the DL, and thus missing at least 2 starts (15 days), it still doesn’t say anything about the length of any given DL stint.
I have and could fairly easily. Let me see what I could do. I will probably do an average and mean days lost.
The one issue I have always thought of is if a pitcher has to get TJS in August. I would just show him with 30 days lost, but it would basically he 2 season.