{"id":505520,"date":"2026-01-04T20:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/505520\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:34:12","slug":"2025-snakepit-awards-pitcher-of-the-year-nominations-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/505520\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 SnakePit Awards: Pitcher of the Year nominations open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pitching wasn\u2019t exactly a strength of the Diamondbacks last season. The team finished 23rd by ERA, the same by FIP, 24th by xFIP, and an underwhelming 26th by fWAR, posting just 8.7 wins above replacement level. It\u2019s safe to say that even an average pitching staff, combined with the D-backs\u2019 clearly better than average offense, would probably have got the team into the postseason. Injuries were obviously a key factor. If Corbin Burnes, Justin Martinez and A.J. Puk had simply repeated their 2024 numbers, that would have been an extra six fWAR for the team, and a likely playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">However, we are not here to rehash that particular autopsy report. We are here instead to select candidates for Arizona\u2019s Pitcher of the Year, and despite the struggles overall, there were still some strong individual performances over the course of the season. To provide some objectivity to suggestions, below is a table which lists ley statistics for the Arizona pitchers who finished in the top ten either by bWAR or fWAR in 2025 (thirteen in all). Don\u2019t feel obliged to limit suggestions to these players, but I would be slightly surprised if we end up with any nominations come from outside this list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">[If the image below is too small on your mobile device, <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.azsnakepit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/baseball.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">try this link<\/a>] I\u2019m quite interested at the drastic differences in some cases between the two metrics. I know a factor is that fWAR is based off FIP rather than straight ERA, but that doesn\u2019t seem to explain everything. For example, ERod being more valuable by fWAR than Zac Gallen, despite throwing fewer innings and with a worse FIP. Oh, well. I just crunch the numbers!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I tend to aim for three starting pitchers and two relief pitchers, but we\u2019ll see how the nominations end up breaking down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pitching wasn\u2019t exactly a strength of the Diamondbacks last season. The team finished 23rd by ERA, the same&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,19173,5,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-505520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-az-snake-pit-community","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-diamondbacks","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115838744263595120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}