Rotation Determined
by Patrick Whealton ~ February 25th, 2008
posted by Patrick
The 2008 rotation is set as follows:
Erik Bedard (L)
Felix Hernandez (R)
Carlos Silva (R)
Jarrod Washburn (L)
Miguel Batista (R)
So we’ve got a 16-game winner from last year pitching in the fifth spot… cool!
There is no doubt that the lefty-righty dynamic played a factor here. John McLaren pointed out that back to back lefties did not work out last year.
5 Responses to Rotation Determined
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment. If you don't yet have an account, please register here and join the discussion. Registration takes only a few seconds!
1 February 25th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
whats up with the new site?
2 February 25th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
It also didn’t help that Horacio Ramirez was one half of that back-to-back pair of lefties. I doubt a hypothetical combination like Bedard/Santana would be quite so problematic…
3 February 25th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
The point with the lefties is if you have two soft tossing guys like washburn and ramirez the hitters will adjust. In games Wash started after Horam he had a 4.69 ERA and in games he started after one of the righties he had a 4.06 ERA.
4 February 25th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Jon is going to be delving in to preparing the site hopefully in the next week or two.
5 February 26th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
It’s exciting knowing this year that our starting pitching will at least give us a chance to win about 75% of the time this year…As opposed to having two guys starting last year who might of gave us a chance to win 33% of the time…