http://www.sbnation.com/users/morineko Posts made by morineko on SB Nation http://www.brewcrewball.com/2008/7/11/569944/mcclung-s-split-indoor-out morineko Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:52:18 -0000 <p>I was thinking about the proposed home/away pitching platoon involving Seth McClung and Dave Bush. The Bush splits were already well-accounted for by dixieflatline in his post. I don't have the same nifty data analysis tools or the knowledge to work up McClung's away splits in the same method, but I did go over to <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/psplit.cgi?n1=mccluse01&amp;year=2008">Baseball Reference</a> to check one of my hunches out. I think I may be correct, because...</p> <p>...it's not that McClung is awful at home so much as he's not as good indoors as out. (Note: the Miller Park roof was not opened until the end of May in 2008.)</p> <p>Outdoors, his WHIP is 1.31; indoors, it's 1.45. The big difference is in OPS, with .648 outdoors and .823 indoors.</p> <p>I'm also wondering about games he's pitched in where the roof has opened and closed during the game. I recall the roof was opened and shut several times during his 6/21 start against Baltimore, but he started 4 other times in parks with retractable roofs and I can't find any data on roof openings in those.</p>