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Friday, November 12, 2004
 
pitchers
i was in the library with my sister and i said "they should order books by goodness." so i did it with pitchers. numbers aren't exact because we didn't have sacrifice data.

Player bf w k hr wal con hrp era
johnson,randy 968 54 290 18 .056 .683 .029 2.60
santana,johan 903 63 265 24 .070 .685 .042 2.61

take your pick. rj faced more batters, but johan had that retarded second half.

sheets,ben 948 36 264 25 .038 .711 .039 2.70

definitely number 3. a wal that low with a con that low is, as the kids say, hard to do.

schilling,curt 926 40 203 23 .043 .771 .034 3.26

a postseason for the ages. what ages? i don't know, but they're gonna write about it for a long time. place it in historical context. i don't know, willis reed? why do i keep saying i don't know? i don't know.

martinez,pedro 921 77 227 26 .084 .731 .042 3.90

i had a dream last night where pedro said he grew up a cardinals fan.

oswalt,roy 1016 72 206 17 .071 .782 .023 3.49
clemens,roger 897 85 218 15 .095 .732 .025 2.98

yeah, oswalt faced more batters. clemens was better when he did pitch. clemens' last few years have put him clearly ahead of maddux historically.

perez,oliver 823 90 239 22 .109 .674 .045 2.98
schmidt,jason 920 80 251 18 .087 .701 .031 3.20
peavy,jake 709 64 173 13 .090 .732 .028 2.27

pretty close between these three. all are dominators.

zambrano,carlo 904 101 188 14 .112 .766 .023 2.75

raw talent. still working on harnessing it. fun to watch.

hernandez,liva 1092 93 186 26 .085 .814 .032 3.60

doesn't get the respect he deserves. that's what happens when you're an expo. for the record, i'd like to say "nationals" is a terrible name. it's the name of the league! you use it to distinguish the mets from the yankees, for example. people don't want to say "senators" because it failed twice, but that was because they were in the american league. a washington team should be in the national league. calling them senators would link them with history in a positive way. calling them "nationals" is just stupid.

wright,jaret 799 72 159 11 .090 .781 .019 3.28

dominant.

hudson,tim 816 56 103 8 .069 .864 .012 3.53

8 home runs!

radke,brad 920 32 143 23 .035 .839 .031 3.48

as we move down the list, the differences become smaller and smaller. the guys at the top make a real impact. the guys at the bottom are just guys.

davis,doug 900 86 166 14 .096 .796 .022 3.39

more ground balls this year = fewer home runs (per at-bat).

buehrle,mark 1052 59 165 33 .056 .834 .040 3.89

workhorse.

pavano,carl 939 60 139 16 .064 .842 .022 3.00

he was good, but the park helped.

kennedy,joe 725 75 117 17 .103 .820 .032 3.66

fantastic production in colorado.

garcia,freddy 893 71 184 22 .080 .776 .034 3.81

helped by first half in seattle.

escobar,kelvim 900 83 190 21 .092 .767 .033 3.93

still kelviming

arroyo,bronson 773 66 142 17 .085 .799 .030 4.03

great year in every respect except hair.

rogers,kenny 958 75 126 24 .078 .857 .032 4.76

great work in the park that makes mvp's.

harden,rich 824 84 167 16 .102 .774 .028 3.99
thomson,john 863 58 133 20 .067 .835 .030 3.72
maddux,greg 897 41 151 35 .046 .824 .050 4.02
lackey,john 878 68 144 22 .077 .822 .033 4.67
willis,dontrel 870 69 139 20 .079 .826 .030 4.02
lieber,jon 766 20 102 20 .026 .863 .031 4.33
westbrook,jake 920 65 116 19 .071 .864 .026 3.38

ground balls lead to success.

mussina,mike 714 42 132 22 .059 .804 .041 4.59
wells,david 812 22 101 23 .027 .872 .033 3.73
lopez,rodrigo 732 56 121 21 .077 .821 .038 3.59
bonderman,jere 803 83 168 24 .103 .767 .043 4.89

put it all together in september.

wakefield,tim 841 79 116 29 .094 .848 .045 4.87

how do you rank a knuckleballer?

clement,matt 787 89 190 23 .113 .728 .045 3.68
zito,barry 945 90 163 28 .095 .809 .040 4.48
sabathia,c.c. 819 79 139 20 .096 .812 .033 4.12
benson,kris 874 71 134 15 .081 .833 .022 4.31
lilly,ted 858 95 168 26 .111 .780 .044 4.06
williams,woody 829 67 131 20 .081 .828 .032 4.18
robertson,nate 870 70 155 30 .080 .806 .047 4.90
glavine,tom 911 70 109 20 .077 .870 .027 3.60
drese,ryan 924 68 98 16 .074 .886 .021 4.20
silva,carlos 904 40 76 23 .044 .912 .029 4.21
mulder,mark 995 95 140 25 .095 .844 .033 4.43
harang,aaron 717 57 125 26 .079 .811 .049 4.86

home run park.

weaver,jeff 960 81 153 19 .084 .826 .026 4.01
webb,brandon 947 129 164 17 .136 .800 .026 3.59

nowhere near last year. he'll be fine.

jennings,jason 952 108 133 27 .113 .842 .038 5.51

tough park.

lidle,cory 929 71 126 27 .076 .853 .037 4.90
colon,bartolo 914 74 158 38 .081 .812 .056 5.01

bad luck with the dingers.

wilson,paul 815 72 117 26 .088 .843 .042 4.36

bad park for dingers.

marquis,jason 899 80 138 26 .089 .832 .038 3.71
perez,odalis 816 47 128 26 .058 .834 .041 3.25

hrp too high for dodger stadium

maroth,mike 961 66 108 25 .069 .879 .032 4.31
tomko,brett 842 64 108 19 .076 .861 .028 4.04
lowe,derek 851 79 105 15 .093 .864 .022 5.42

bad hit luck.

vazquez,javier 859 70 150 33 .081 .810 .052 4.91

way worse than expected. must have been something wrong.

hampton,mike 781 66 87 15 .085 .878 .024 4.28
lawrence,brian 897 62 121 26 .069 .855 .036 4.12
ortiz,russ 926 115 143 23 .124 .824 .034 4.13

i don't know how he does it. with all those walks, he should be eating his hat. i don't know what that means, but i couldn't think of a way to finish that sentence.

leiter,al 767 108 117 16 .141 .822 .030 3.21
suppan,jeff 829 73 110 25 .088 .854 .039 4.16
ponson,sidney 989 77 115 23 .078 .874 .029 5.30
milton,eric 875 76 161 43 .087 .798 .067 4.75

the other homer park.

estes,shawn 945 116 117 30 .123 .859 .042 5.84

tough place to pitch.

fogg,josh 801 73 82 17 .091 .887 .026 4.64
eaton,adam 864 62 153 28 .072 .809 .043 4.61
trachsel,steve 899 88 117 25 .098 .856 .036 4.00
johnson,jason 877 65 125 22 .074 .846 .032 5.13
hendrickson,ma 813 52 87 21 .064 .886 .031 4.81
garland,jon 954 80 113 34 .084 .871 .045 4.89
morris,matt 873 62 131 35 .071 .838 .051 4.72
lima,jose 724 35 93 33 .048 .865 .055 4.07

lima time!

redman,mark 865 74 102 28 .086 .871 .041 4.71

not quite what the a's hoped.

lohse,kyle 905 83 111 28 .092 .865 .039 5.34
batista,miguel 901 99 104 22 .110 .870 .032 4.80
rueter,kirk 863 67 56 21 .078 .930 .028 4.73
franklin,ryan 896 71 104 33 .079 .874 .046 4.90
may,darrell 849 57 120 38 .067 .848 .057 5.61
lee,cliff 817 92 161 30 .113 .778 .053 5.43
acevedo,jose 711 50 117 30 .070 .823 .055 5.94
contreras,jose 769 92 150 31 .120 .778 .059 5.50

i still think he'll put it together, but we'll see.

myers,brett 792 68 116 31 .086 .840 .051 5.52
loaiza,esteban 840 74 117 32 .088 .847 .049 5.70
valdez,ismael 763 51 67 33 .067 .906 .051 5.19
moyer,jamie 897 74 125 44 .082 .848 .063 5.21
anderson,brian 769 54 70 33 .070 .902 .051 5.64
ishii,kazuhisa 773 102 99 21 .132 .852 .037 4.71

terrible for dodger stadium.

elarton,scott 706 66 103 33 .093 .839 .061 5.90

scott settled down after he left colorado. he should be ok next year.

well that's it! hope you enjoyed it. in closing, if you see genevieve treuille, tell her to go out with me.
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