Behind the subscription wall, our partners at ESPN Insider have launched a new blog called TMI (The Max Info). Baseball Prospectus is contributing to it, as are writers from Fangraphs, Tom Tango from the Inside the Book blog, and folks from within ESPN’s Stats and Info department, a couple of whom I had the pleasure of meeting when I went to Bristol for a big baseball summit a few weeks back. It’s an all-out slide rule war. Well, not really, since I don’t think you’re going to see the future of sabermetrics settled over 250-500 word posts delivered by otherwise competing entities.

Today I made my debut with a short bit on the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw. Back in June, the 21-year-old southpaw introduced a slider into his arsenal. His numbers from that point onward are eye-popping, and can stand with both league’s elite hurlers, albeit with the caveat that his age limited his workload:

Player            GS    IP    ERA   K/9 BB/9 HR/9
Clayton Kershaw   20  115.0  2.03  10.2  4.6  0.2
Felix Hernandez   23  167.1  2.10   7.8  2.7  0.5
Tim Lincecum      22  160.0  2.25  10.0  2.8  0.5
Adam Wainwright   23  161.0  2.29   8.6  2.1  0.6
Jon Lester        21  138.0  2.35   9.9  2.6  0.6
Chris Carpenter   23  163.2  2.53   6.4  1.8  0.4
Javier Vazquez    21  149.0  2.54   9.2  1.7  0.9
Jair Jurrjens     23  149.0  2.60   6.8  3.1  0.7
Zack Greinke      22  147.1  2.75   9.4  2.4  0.7
Roy Halladay      21  157.0  2.87   8.0  1.4  0.9

Seven of the players on that list received Cy Young votes. Kershaw did not, but if he keeps pitching like that, he will soon.