Will it never stop?

I interrupt this paper writing spree to bring you this .  Seriously, will silly, easily refuted nonsense like this go on forever?  I’m too lazy/busy to look it up, but I’m almost certain that BP (among others) has done comparative studies on such things.

Okay, so relievers’ ERAs are lower than starters, as a rule.  There are obvious reasons for this.

1. Many of them enter games and allow current baserunners to score.  This goes on someone else’s ERA.  Often, that someone else is the starter, and starters also have to clean up their own messes.
2. Coming in for 1, 2, or 3 inning outings is much, much different than starting a game.  Both classes of pitchers go 100% all the time, but it manifests itself differently.  It’s why relievers come out blazing, starters like surgeons.
3. Even if a player is equally valuable on a per-inning basis (or even twice as valuable) as a reliever, top starters throw about three times as many innings.  Good relievers, in a season that could be classified in a range from “mostly healthy” to “completely healthy” over the course of a season, throw 60 to 80 innings, on very rare occasions hitting 100 innings a year.  Good starters, in the same range of health, will throw between 180 and 240.

Ugh.  I get really disappointed in journalism sometimes.  Or, more accurately, I find that a lot of journalists are mediocre-at-best, still others are fine writers/reporters but should keep their opinions/”strategery” to themselves, and some very rare breed are good writers and smart strategists.