I assume the other seasons are complete seasons as opposed to this one, which still has 32 games left, or 1/5 of the season.

At the same rate, this team winds up with the same 56 games they 2005 teams had, which is higher than 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008.

So this team will have fewer 7 inning starts than the vintage 1996-2003 teams of “5 aces”, but it will, in fact have as many or more of them than the all the “recent” seasons, except, possibly, 2005

Steve Lombardi wrote:

Yanks should have won that series:

I know. That’s what I meant by my comment about Wells/Weaver/Soriano/Boone all collectively sucking it up in the ’03 WS.

Totally deflating to have lost that WS against an inferior opponent (annoying Josh Beckett hero-worship notwithstanding).

Yanks should have won that series:
http://www.netshrine.com/20031027.html

That ’03 team was really great. It’s a shame David Wells and Jeff Weaver were both on the club and it’s also a shame that Aaron Boone and Alfonso Soriano had no plate discipline and couldn’t get runners home from 3rd with less than 2 outs…