4 out of 11 best pitchers AL ERA and texas sucks

by TheLC on Jun 30, 2008 11:12 PM PDT

1. Dush-1.91 for a comanding lead. a huge .43 lead over the next non A's pitcher, C.Lee from Clevland . Oh, he's also First in the Majors with a .17 lead over Cin's E.Volquez. And both used to be Texas Rangers who are a well deserved last in AL TEAM ERA.

2. Having the pitcher with the Best ERA in baseball really is impressive enough. BUT....we also have the second best AL ERA with HARDEN's 2.15. I know he's 15 innings away from being officially on that list but tell that to any team who has to face us. Im pretty sure texas messed up one year by not drafting Harden when they could have. because they suck.

3. then there's a pair of outstanding young unknown leflty's in 9th Evland and 11th Smith respectavly.

note;(do you know how many teams have NEVER said that? ) another note: (how did Billy know to get Evland? have you seen Evlands stats in his 40+ games in the majors the last four years? a horrible 8+ ERA. ) Of course texas could have traded for them last year but they didnt' so again they suck.

The reason there ERA's are so low? the Top Three of Dush, Evland and Harden don't just give up very few home runs, they give up by far the fewest . with Evland giving up the least HR's in the major leagues with 3 and Dush tied for second with 4 and Harden's tied for fourth in all the majors with only 5 giving up. Some one needs to look that stat up over the last hundread years and see if any team ever did something like that before. IMPRESSIVE.

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Duke

was drafted like in the 18th round, I’m sure any team should have gotten him.

by hyphybeast on Jul 1, 2008 3:28 PM PDT reply actions

Dush? Pronounced "Douche"?

I generally bemoan the profusion of Mr Sabermetric Sporks in the Scrabble ranks who don't know the meaning or usage of 50% of the words they use. -monkeyball

by JediLeroy on Jul 1, 2008 3:40 PM PDT reply actions

gigglingone's spelling lessons for the day....

Duke
Eveland
Cleveland

(I’m a little nit-picky today….)

There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Jul 1, 2008 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions

There are at least four more

...not counting grammatical errors

I generally bemoan the profusion of Mr Sabermetric Sporks in the Scrabble ranks who don't know the meaning or usage of 50% of the words they use. -monkeyball

by JediLeroy on Jul 1, 2008 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions

..or punctuation

I generally bemoan the profusion of Mr Sabermetric Sporks in the Scrabble ranks who don't know the meaning or usage of 50% of the words they use. -monkeyball

by JediLeroy on Jul 1, 2008 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions

are you telling me I need to acually spend time and edit my own material? perposperous

im lazy

by TheLC on Jul 1, 2008 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm starting to think this is actually being typed by the individual in your picture

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on Jul 1, 2008 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions

I genuinely laughed out lout when I read this last comment.

by Sacpike on Jul 1, 2008 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions

Texas had Duke and traded him to us. Boston origionally drafted him, I believe.

And as much as I like ripping on Texas, I don’t know if its really something we can do atm.

After all, Texas is to pitching as we are to hitting. Texas has good hitting, but is also in a good hitting, bad pitching park.

We have good pitching, but are also in a good pitching, bad hitting park.

And while Texas has bad pitching, we have just as bad offense, perhaps worse since we have below replacement level players in our lineup.

And while you say Texas could have had Eveland for nothing, don’t forget that they got Bradley who is hitting awesome essentially from us for free, and they got Hamilton for Volquez, who no one expected to be this good. Basically that means that at the time, we could have made that trade, dealing, I don’t know, Gio Gonzalez (if we had had him in time) or maybe even Chad Gaudin or dare I say Joe Blanton for him.

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by Zonis on Jul 1, 2008 4:00 PM PDT reply actions

Technically, Texas got Bradley from SD.

by theblackpearl on Jul 1, 2008 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions

Nothing technical about it

His contract with the A’s expired at the end of last season and he became a free agent. San Diego didn’t even get comp picks for him, because he wasn’t offered arbitration.

Texas got Hamilton because Cincinnati wanted Edinson Volquez. That deal was not publicized ahead of time, and there’s absolutely no reason to believe that the A’s could have gotten in on it, or that Cincinnati would have accepted someone other than Volquez as their preferred prospect. When two teams talk, that conversation isn’t broadcast by conference call to all 28 other front offices.

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on Jul 1, 2008 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions

I am saying that if you say that Texas could have gotten Eveland for free from AZ

than you have to be able to make the argument that we could have gotten Hamilton.

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by Zonis on Jul 1, 2008 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions

OK, sure

I wouldn’t make either of those statements…

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on Jul 1, 2008 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Our pitching is not as good as it seems ...

nor is Texas’ as bad as it seems.

The Coliseum is one of the better pitchers’ parks out there and the Ballpark in Arlington is one of the worst. What’s more, our pitchers have the benefit of arguably the best defense in the league behind them, while Texas has one of the worst.

And if you’re looking for reasons why certain teams are over performing expectations and others are under performing, look no further than the leader board for defensive efficiency.
1. Oak
2. Tam
3. Bal
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20. Cle
21. NYY
28. Sea

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Jul 2, 2008 3:14 PM PDT reply actions