{"id":13461,"date":"2017-02-24T08:56:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13461"},"modified":"2017-02-24T08:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:56:28","slug":"verducci-effect-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13461","title":{"rendered":"Verducci Effect for 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lopez<\/a>

Lopez is the #1 Verducci effect risk factor arm for 2017. Photo via wp.com\/Mitchell Layton getty images<\/p><\/div>\n

This year’s installment of si.com’s Tom Verducci<\/strong>‘s “Year After Effect” (which he’s using as the title instead of the eponymous “Verducci Effect”) was published earlier this month<\/a>. \u00a0This is a quick review of the past few years of his work and documentation of his macabre “success rate” in predicting trouble for young arms working on large innings load increases.<\/p>\n

Here’s my reviews of his lists\u00a0on this same topic from year’s past: 2013 year after effect<\/a> and 2014 year after effect<\/a>, and 2016’s year after effect<\/a>\u00a0(I forgot to do it in 2015). \u00a0 In the 2013 post, there’s some counter-arguments to whether or not his “effect” actually exists, with research on all pitchers who qualified for the thresholds he laid out at the time.\u00a0 I won’t go into the same arguments made there; what I will do is point out the actual results of his predictions:<\/p>\n