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by Edwards Kings » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:42 am
I really do. I drafted him in the 21st round and hoped he had turned it around a bit. Be a nice #7 pitcher in my rotation. Turns out he is a 2nd half pitcher. He got me wins, but man the ERA and WHIP reeked to go with his barely 50% SO to IP. So I drop him on July 5th. At that time he was lost. Really lost. In 17 games, he had already given up 21 HR. He had allowed more than 5 ER in 9 of those 17 games. Despite the 8 wins, he had generated only 54 K's with a 5.854 ERA and a 1.573 WHIP. Just about the worst starting pitcher out there. I drop him. Good riddance to bad garbage.
In the 16 games since, he has only 6 Wins, but a respectable 73 k's to go with a 2.071 ERA and a 0.997 WHIP and only 10 HR while averaging going into the 8th inning. In September, he goes into hyperdrive with a 1.827 ERA and 0.902 WHIP in six games on a no-where team averaging 5 K's per game. I realize now how bad I am at in-season management, but this really stinks.
I hate Bronson Arroyo.
[ October 01, 2009, 10:43 AM: Message edited by: Edwards Kings ]
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Charles Krauthammer
