Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Yankees (74-46) @ Royals (50-73), Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 8:10pm
NYY: Bartolo Colon (38, RHP, 8-6, 3.31) vs. KCR: Bruce Chen (34, LHP, 7-5, 4.15)
Lineups
Yankees
Jeter SS
Granderson CF
Teixeira 1B
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Jones DH
Martin C
Nun-E 3B
Gardner LF
Kansas City
Gordon LF
Cabrera CF
Butler DH
Hosmer 1B
Francoeur RF
Giavotella 2B
Perez C
Moustakas 3B
Escobar SS
I was puffing on the objective pipe earlier today, and I noticed something interesting. Somewhere in the last two years. Bruce Chen turned himself into a solid MLB starter. He’s not necessarily someone you want at the front of your rotation, but he’s given the Royals 234 innings of 4.47 RA, 4.16 ERA, 4.75 FIP, 98 ERA+, 1.395 WHIP. That may not seem like much, but there are teams that are paying $33M for two years/340 innings of 5.37 RA, 4.97 ERA, 4.88 FIP, 86 ERA+, 1.452 WHIP.
So Chen should be a wealthy man this offseason. Either that, or the team that’s paying $33M for two years of worse than Chen pitching should reconsider how they spend their money.
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