Let’s see what else he has. If it works it’s been a cheap fix. If it doesn’t he already helped us out. Win win.

Edwar pitches well so you have to pick on Ponson instead? I’m no big fan of Ponson and he pitched awful last night. But you’re skewing the numbers by including a sample size of 8 games with yesterday’s awful start. 40% of his homeruns and 25% of the earned runs allowed during that period were in yesterday’s game. His ERA for that 8 game period is 5.47 but 4.59 for the first 7 games. Yesterday’s game lifted it nearly a whole run.

I’m not going to argue that 4.6 is a good ERA but this is a #4 or #5 starter that we are talking about. Hard Ball Times had an article a couple of years ago about the varying stats by place in the rotation. They found that the MLB average ERA for a #4 was 5.10 and the MLB average for a #5 was 6.24. For those interested, the article is here:

http://www.hardballtimes.com/m.....4-starter/

We’ve been spoiled over the years by having very deep rotations. Ponson isn’t good, but he is serviceable and likely a better option than Karstens or Igawa. Maybe McCutchen would be better but I wouldn’t be ready to yank Ponson based on 1 start against one of the better offensive teams in the league.

i agree, sunny. thats why i said at the end of my statement, at least not this year.

he’ll have surgery after the season, and be able to rehab it. he should be fine come spring 2009, or we better hope so, anyway.

thats cool, no big deal. i do the same thing on occasion.

no Keith, im not retarded. i watch the games. while Jorge starts the majority of these games, he shouldnt. his inability to throw to 2B is embarrasing. its just my opinion, especially with Matsui on the DL, that Molina is your everyday catcher, and Jorge is the DH. at least thats the way it should be.

“Varitek? A better bat than Posada? No one in this world would consider that an even remotely credible stance. If you think this in earnest, you need an education in hitting. Posada is a real hitter. Varitek is not. Even as Posada declines overall, his hitting doesn’t, if anything, it improves. Offensively, there is no comparison. Sorry.”

you didnt read what i typed. thats fine.

i said Molina has a worse bat than Tek, considering its looking like he’s going to be getting more starts behind the plate.

Jorge is obviously better than Tek, but i dont see how Jorge is going to last the rest of the season behind the plate.

no matter how good his bat is for a catcher, when he becomes the defensive liability that he is becoming on an everyday basis, Girardi wont be able to keep him there.

Fox would be wise to fire him (for this in addition to being a horrible broadcaster), or at least keep him from covering baseball games.

here’s hoping he’s not in the booth for Saturday’s game!

It’s less than 85%. Probably a lot less, but these guys are all catching the same staff and the disparity is rather obvious.