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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 ]

Ditto the experience and the sentiment

From the Associated Press: Arroyo (15-13) finished with 12 consecutive starts in which he went at least seven innings while allowing no more than three earned runs. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, he is the first Reds pitcher since at least 1900 to put together such a streak and only the fourth overall in the last 20 years, joining Greg Maddux (12 straight for the Cubs in 1992), Randy Johnson (14 for Arizona in 1999) and Curt Schilling (12 for Arizona in 2002).

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:

From the Associated Press: Arroyo (15-13) finished with 12 consecutive starts in which he went at least seven innings while allowing no more than three earned runs. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, he is the first Reds pitcher since at least 1900 to put together such a streak and only the fourth overall in the last 20 years, joining Greg Maddux (12 straight for the Cubs in 1992), Randy Johnson (14 for Arizona in 1999) and Curt Schilling (12 for Arizona in 2002). Maddux, Johnson, Schilling,....ARROYO?!?!?!



I am such a brainiac. Thanks, Greg...this helps sooooo much! May they run out of lime for your Corona and wax for the mustache!