Starting pitchers in the postseason need previous experience in that role to be successful, right? Yes, according to the mainstream media. No, according to me.Postseason Starting Experience
Chris Carpenter
C.C. Sabathia
Aaron Cook
John Lackey
Cole Hamels
Jon Lester
Ubaldo Jimenez
40 IP-20 ER
4.50 ERA
Regular Season Baseline
1372 IP-536 ER
3.52 ERA
Postseason Starting Inexperience
Randy Wolf
Cliff Lee
Adam Wainwright
Brian Duensing
Clayton Kershaw
32 IP-11 ER
3.09 ERA
Regular Season Baseline
934 IP-315 ER
3.04 ERA
Starting experience hasn't seemed to matter so far, and I don't think that should be a surprise. Skills matter more than experience does, and I can't think of a time that hasn't been true. After all, no amount of experience is going to make Livan Hernandez better than Clayton Kershaw.
Keep your experience, i'll take the talent.
