• Girardi’s Call On All-Star Pitchers

    Posted by on May 28th, 2010 · Comments (3)

    I was just looking at the best starting pitchers in the A.L., to date, this season:

    Rk Player ERA+ Age Tm GS W L W-L% IP BB SO ERA
    1 Doug Fister 201 26 SEA 9 3 2 .600 62.0 10 26 2.03
    2 John Danks 184 25 CHW 9 4 3 .571 60.2 18 50 2.37
    3 Jeff Niemann 179 27 TBR 10 5 0 1.000 64.2 20 41 2.37
    4 David Price 176 24 TBR 9 7 1 .875 59.2 23 46 2.41
    5 Andy Pettitte 154 38 NYY 9 6 1 .857 58.1 18 36 2.62
    6 Phil Hughes 149 24 NYY 8 5 1 .833 49.2 18 49 2.72
    7 Shaun Marcum 145 28 TOR 10 4 1 .800 67.0 15 53 2.82
    8 Clay Buchholz 144 25 BOS 9 6 3 .667 55.2 24 43 3.07
    9 Justin Duchscherer 144 32 OAK 5 2 1 .667 28.0 12 18 2.89
    10 Matt Garza 143 26 TBR 10 5 3 .625 69.2 25 57 2.97
    11 C.J. Wilson 143 29 TEX 9 3 2 .600 58.2 22 44 3.07
    12 James Shields 142 28 TBR 10 5 2 .714 69.1 14 71 2.99
    13 Jon Lester 140 26 BOS 10 5 2 .714 65.2 28 72 3.15
    14 Francisco Liriano 133 26 MIN 9 4 3 .571 59.2 19 59 3.17
    15 Jason Vargas 131 27 SEA 9 3 2 .600 57.2 17 38 3.12
    16 Dallas Braden 127 26 OAK 10 4 4 .500 64.0 11 39 3.23
    17 Colby Lewis 127 30 TEX 9 4 2 .667 57.1 24 58 3.45
    18 Jered Weaver 127 27 LAA 10 4 2 .667 61.2 17 68 3.36
    19 Trevor Cahill 125 22 OAK 6 3 2 .600 35.1 10 17 3.31
    20 Cliff Lee 119 31 SEA 5 2 2 .500 36.2 1 32 3.44
    21 Ricky Romero 119 25 TOR 10 4 2 .667 68.1 27 72 3.42
    22 Jeremy Guthrie 117 31 BAL 10 3 4 .429 64.1 13 35 3.64
    23 Zack Greinke 117 26 KCR 10 1 5 .167 63.0 11 51 3.57
    24 Gio Gonzalez 116 24 OAK 10 5 3 .625 61.0 27 52 3.54
    25 Ervin Santana 116 27 LAA 10 4 3 .571 69.0 21 62 3.65
    26 Justin Verlander 116 27 DET 10 5 3 .625 65.0 23 59 3.74
    Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
    Generated 5/28/2010.

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    If these guys continue at this pace, when comes down to Andy Pettitte, Phil Hughes, Jeff Niemann and David Price, Joe Girardi’s going to have a tough call on who to select and use…unless the league just makes the call for him?

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    Comments on Girardi’s Call On All-Star Pitchers

    1. Corey Italiano
      May 28th, 2010 | 10:58 am

      Pick the Rays starters and run them out there till their arms fall off.
    2. #15
      May 28th, 2010 | 11:08 am

      Yeah, and make them throw weighted baseballs during the game.
    3. Evan3457
      May 29th, 2010 | 9:40 am

      If it’s me, I take Danks, Price, Hughes, Marcum, Lester, Verlander, Romero, and maybe Weaver. And I start with Lester and Verlander.

      It’s an All-Star game. You need starters with swing and miss stuff. You bring a “pitches to his defense” starter to this game, and you know what you get? Atlee Hammaker, 1983, John Burkett, 1993, or Tom Glavine, 1992 and 1998 is what.

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