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Originally Posted by Waninski
I'm not sure why I'm even responding to your lack of insight here...but just to defend my man, I'm going to clarify this for your own stupidity:
Brandon McCarthy's 2005 stats as a starter:
10 GS, 3 W, 2 L, 4.17 ERA, 58.1 IP, 54 H, 14 BB, 39 SO
Brandon McCarthy's 2005 stats post All-Star Break:
7 G, 5 GS, 3 W, 1 L, 1.69 ERA, 43. 2 IP, 31 H, 8 BB, 31 SO
No one on the planet is expected to have an ERA below 2, unless your name is Roger Clemens. But you can clearly see frmo his second half performance (dominating Boston and Texas, the two best offenses in the league last year) of what his true potential is. Either you really are a fool, or you're just trying to be a smart ass with your comment. Either way, you just made me waste about 6 minutes typing this out.
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Oh so I'm stupid and a fool? I never said he was bad. Maybe the "real" Brandon McCarthy is the pre-All-star break McCarthy? All you can do is examine the entire sample size (which is entirely too small, especially when you break it down into 58 and 43 IP, ie AARON SMALL LAST YEAR), and base the ratings off of that. How do you know that's his "true" potential? Players can look great for short stretches. Just ask Shane Spencer, Jeff D'Amico, Roger Cedeno, Kevin Maas, Mark Quinn, Rick Ankiel, Omar Daal and scores and scores of other players that either had one good year, or simply one good stretch. What if he is one of them? I never said the guy was bad, it's just that his "true potential" is not sub-2 ERA; he'd probably be lucky to put a sub-3 just two or three times in his career in this current era (Mike Mussina only did it ONCE, and he's one of the best of the era). Don't be so defensive.