With Darvish's wins yesterday and 3-0 stat with the Rangers, I wanted to check out his prior stats.
His stats are awesome. But what has me wondering, is why in NPB are 95% of their gm totals at Pinny 4.5 to 5.5? Would that make pitchers with an ERA over 3 considered unsuccessful and batters hitting a low.250 considered successful? Are the pitchers just more dominant/not enough quality hitters?
Checking out wiki, they do use a smaller baseball, strike zone, and playing field.