Sunday, July 19, 2009

This List of Top Pitchers Might Surprise You

2009 Season: Sub-3.00 ERA, 100 Strikeouts
Dan Haren - Diamondbacks (2.01, 129)

Zack Greinke - Royals (2.12, 129)Tim Lincecum - Giants (2.27 159)
Felix Hernandez - Mariners (2.51, 129)
Josh President - Marlins (2.74, 109)
Wandy Rodriguez - Astros (2.81, 112)Roy Halladay - Blue Jays (2.85, 106)Javier Vasquez - Braves (2.95, 136)
A some surprises here. If you heard there was a itemize of 8 pitchers in every of ballgame with these numbers, I uncertainty most grouping would conceive of Wandy Rodriguez or Javier Vazquez immediately. Tim Lincecum and Roy Halladay were the All-Star Game Starting Pitchers. Zack Greinke, Felix Hernandez, Josh President and Dan Haren were All-Star Reserves. Wandy Rodriguez and Javier Vasquez were mitt soured of the teams all and there wasn't such of a open katzenjammer over it.
Some of that is belike a creation of the every-team-must-have-a-player requirement, which got Zach Duke of the Pirates (8-8, 3.29, 65 SO) onto the aggroup as their exclusive selection. Ted Lilly, who is on the Cubs and was an All-Star Reserve, has had a rattling kindred flavour to Wandy Rodriguez, exclusive with a higher ERA (9-6, 3.18, 101 SO). The win-loss records are ofttimes utilised to watch who the prizewinning pitchers are too. Take a countenance at their Win-Loss records:
Wins-Losses
Tim Lincecum (10-2)
Roy Halladay (10-3)
Felix Hernandez (10-3)Zack Greinke (10-5)Dan Haren (9-5)
Wandy Rodriguez (9-6)
Josh President (8-2)
Javier Vasquez (6-7)
Vasquez has been a taste of a tough-luck pitcher: His ERA in June was 1.98 and his achievement 1-3. He forfeited a mettlesome against Tim Wakefield and Beantown where he allowed 1 separate over 7 innings, because the Braves forfeited 1-0. Haren strength be having the prizewinning flavour of some of them, but his achievement is not that great, though Arizona is digit of the poorest teams in baseball.

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