…on this fucking team? This is the team of sore legs. I’d rather be a sore loser than have sore legs.
At least they won a game, and will end up with a respectable (in their terms) 4-6 road trip, just you watch.
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Santana:
9 starts, 6-2, 1.50 ERA, 60 innings pitched, 75 strikeouts, 1.05 WHIP.
The WHIP is over 1, and the strikeout to innings pitched ratio is approaching 1 as well.
It hasn’t been a great May compared to April, so he’s going to need to pick up the statistical pace to keep up with the early expectations I had.
I don’t want to do any new projections yet, but the numbers are still looking good for a 220/250 season. The K/IP ratio is at 1.25, down from the earlier 1.4, which is still feasible if you are talking 220/250. He’d have to keep a 1.14 with the amount of innings he is projected to pitch this year.
Still poised to be a monster year. If this is his down month, it definitely will be. If he has months that are somewhere in between April and May the rest of the way, it’s a safe bet those numbers will hold.