Sunday, March 4, 2007

Pre-season Starting Pitcher Rankings

1.Johan Santana-No brainer here-19/2.77/245/1.00
2.Chris Carpenter-15/3.09/184/1.07
3.Carlos Zambrano-High K's, High WHIP-16/3.41/210/1.29
4.Roy Oswalt-15/2.98/166/1.17
5.Brandon Webb-16/3.10/178/1.13
6.Jake Jeavy-He will bounce back in W and ERA column-11/4.09/215/1.23
7.Roy Halladay-Low K's drop him a few spots-16/3.19/132/1.10
8.Ben Sheets-Injuries restrict him to this spot-6/3.82/116/1.09
9.John Smoltz-16/3.49/211/1.19
10.Brett Myers-Self Proclaimed "wife-beater"-12/3.91/189/1.30
11.C.C. Sabathia-I see a strong, healthy year-12/3.22/172/1.17
12.Scott Kazmir-Watch out for the shoulder-10/3.24/163/1.27
13.Rich Harden-4/4.24/49/1.22
14.Chris Young-11/3.46/164/1.13
15.Dontrelle Willis-Which Willis shows:'05 or '06-12/3.87/160/1.42
16.Justin Verlander-Minor sophmore slump-17/3.63/124/1.33
17.Jeremy Bonderman-14/4.08/202/1.30
18.John Lackey-13/3.56/190/1.26
19.Aaron Harang-16/3.76/216/1.27
20.Matt Cain-13/4.15/187/1.28
21.Daisuke Matsuzaka-We will see how good he is depending on adjustments made on his second go-around with teams-No playing Experience
22.Curt Schilling-AVOID:Out of shape-15/3.97/183/1.22
23.Bronson Arroyo-Only concern is small home park-14/3.29/184/1.19
24.Cole Hamels-9/4.08/145/1.25
25.Felix Hernandez-12/4.52/176/1.34
26.Jered Wever-I expect drop-off-11/2.56/105/1.03
27.Jason Schmidt-11/3.59/180/1.26
28.Barry Zito-Should not be highest paid SP...-16/3.83/151/1.40
29.Rich Hill-Hype gets him this spot-6/4.17/90/1.23
30.Andy Pettitte-Returns to old NY self-14/4.20/178/1.44
31.Erik Bedard-15/3.76/171/1.35
32.Dan Haren-14/4.12/176/1.21
33.*Chris Capuano*-11/4.03/174/1.25
34.Derek Lowe-16/3.63/123/1.27
35.A.J. Burnett-10/3.98/118/1.30
36.Josh Johnson-Watch out for injuries-12/3.10/133/1.30
37.*Ervin Santana*-Will be in July trade talk-16/4.28/141/1.23
38.Mike Mussina-Good stats for in '06 for an old moose-15/3.51/172/1.11 39.Brad Penny-16/4.33/148/1.38
40.*John Patterson*Pitches in spacious RFK-1/4.43/42/1.11
41.Josh Beckett-Got owned by AL East-16/5.01/158/1.29
42.Dave Bush-12/4.41/166/1.14
43.Chien-Ming Wang-Best sinkerballer, worst at K's-19/3.63/76/1.31
44.Randy Johnson-Watch out for back-17/5.00/172/1.24
45.Jonathon Papelbon-4/0.92/75/0.78
46.Anibal Sanchez-May regress some-10/2.83/72/1.19
47.*Chuck James*-11/3.78/91/1.24
48.*Mark Buehrle*-He is playing for a contract and will return to '05 form. I put him here since he will fall this late somehow-12/4.99/98/1.45 49.Adam Wainwright-How will he fare as a SP?-2/3.12/72/1.15
50.Scott Olsen-12/4.04/166/1.30

Others to Watch For:*John Maine*, Freddy Garcia, Zach Duke, Jason Jennings, Randy Wolf, Jon Garland, *Cliff Lee*, *Daniel Cabrera*, and *Oliver Perez*.

**sleeper...*rookie

No comments: