How Good Is Your Number Four Starter?

[EVIL~! alkeiper]

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/...your-4-starter/

 

This was quite an enlightening article. Like the author says, you usually expect a #5 starter to post an ERA a bit better than five. Certainly not above six, but that is what most teams get. With these numbers in mind, Yankee fans, are you quick to trade a guy with a 5.00 ERA when he makes 33 starts?

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe]

Yes. Send him to the glue factory.

 

[2GOLD]

I've learned a long time ago that the expectations of Yankees fans do not exist in any realm of reality.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe]

Would you pay a broken down 42-year old $16 million for an ERA over 5?

[Guest]

All this talk about Randy Johnson makes me so happy that the Dodgers didn't trade for him. He'd be our #5 starter, only because Billingsley would have to be moved in a deal.

[MarvinisaLunatic]

The Os #5 starters compiled an ERA of 8.45 last year, no other team was over 8..lol..yet they were pretty solid through 4 (under 5). That 5th spot featured just about everyone including Russ Ortiz and Bruce Chen and guys from AA and AAA so that wasnt much of a surprise.

 

As for the Os #4 starter, I have no idea who it will be but it wont be Bedard/Cabrera/Benson so odds are it might be Loewen or Wright.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe]

It's not like Randy Johnson is a young guy with electric stuff and a bright future ahead of him, years from arbitration, who is struggling to adapt to major league hitting.

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

I don't have a #4 starter on my team; it goes 1-5-5-5-5.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe]

I'm trying to figure out what team that is, but I can't.