If you want a measure of a pitcher that includes pitching and fielding then I think Win Shares is what you're after (and in the NL this would also include batting).

ERA isn't a particularly useful number when you get down to brass tacks but like Tom I view it not as a complete measure of the pitcher but rather just of pitching.

No, because I think ERA should be about how many runs the other team is likely to score with that pitcher pitching. And to my mind, that includes errors he's responsible for.

Holy Crap
 

Nick Adenhart, Angels pitcher, killed in Fullerton crash
How bizarre and tragic. He was the starting pitcher and left the game with his team winning. I drove near the crash site this morning after a blood test (was detoured around it).

Wow

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Sucks.

That's 2 Angels-related deaths already this season.

Angel's Baseball 2009: It's to Die For™

The Angels have canceled tonight's game in honor of Nick Adenhart

Link

OMG, a Dodger pitcher made it through 7 innings! It's an Easter miracle!

It took me a while to wrap my head around that fourth-out run rule, but I think I've managed to make sense out of it.

Consistency that's the key and no one does consistency like the Nationals.

Six straight games. Same consistent result.

You go guys.

Enjoyed the four-out situation. I'm currently reading As They See 'Em and the exploration of umpiring minutiae is interesting (and I'm feeling pretty bad for umpires in general).

It was news to me that there is a situation where the umpire is required to give the manager an option between which outcome they'd prefer.