Next season's top pitchers.

[WittyC]

A very rough look at a top-10 if I were drafting for '07 tomorrow...

1) Santana
2) Pedro
3) Oswalt
4) Zamby
5) Peavy
6) Schmidt
7) Halladay
8) Kazmir
9) King Felix
10) Carpenter

Liriano wouldn't be far off, but seven starts does not warrant a top-10 position for me. He'd be marginal on my top-20.

the first list has many problems.. but two big ones were peavy and oswalt to far down.. and missing a couple solid pitchers..with this one.. peavy > zam.. halladay > schmidt DEFINETLY... carpenter > schmidt.. carpenter > zam.. halladay > zam.. you put zambrano and schmidt too high up.. carpenter too far down.. king felix infront of carpenter? comon..

I have Peavy and Zamby very close, but Zamby gets the nod b/c of moderate injury concerns with Peavy. Halladay below Schmidt simply because of the K's, but with Schmidt's injury concerns, I understand your point. Carp is down b/c he's only had one dominant season. F-Her (why don't we use this nickname more?) is still the best "prospect" pitcher in the bigs. Don't sleep on him in '07.

I'll concede Schmidt might be a little high, but otherwise I stand by my top 10 at this point in time.

[WhiteHot]

1. Johan Santana
2. Francisco Liriano
3. Cole Hamels

[Tommy John]

You're Crazy Man

I Like You But You're Just Plain Crazy

Will Ferrell's Finest

[garf112]

You're Crazy Man

I Like You But You're Just Plain Crazy

Will Ferrell's Finest

You've got a dart in your neck, man!

[Kingctb27]

You're Crazy Man

I Like You But You're Just Plain Crazy

Will Ferrell's Finest

You've got a dart in your neck, man!

Hey honey ya think KFC's still open?

I'll stop ow, but I just had to throw that in there

[Willy T 4 MVP]

Carp is down b/c he's only had one dominant season. F-Her (why don't we use this nickname more?) is still the best "prospect" pitcher in the bigs. Don't sleep on him in '07.

I'll concede Schmidt might be a little high, but otherwise I stand by my top 10 at this point in time.

i completely agree. that has long been my favorite baseball nickname but i can hardly find anyone that knows about it. we gotta spread it to the masses, its genius

[Purple Haze]

'07
Mark Prior will finally stay healthy and pitch 200+ innings
Felix Hernandez (F'Her )
Francisco Liriano
Jeremy Bonderman
Matt Cain
Scott Kazmir
Anthony Reyes


Just to name a few

[tomdoyle3]

'07
Mark Prior will finally stay healthy and pitch 200+ innings
Felix Hernandez (F'Her )
Francisco Liriano
Jeremy Bonderman
Matt Cain
Scott Kazmir
Anthony Reyes


Just to name a few

Wow do you like the young guys. There is no way that Reyes and Cain will be top pitchers in 07. Next year they will both be solid, but 08 should be the year that they really break out. (If they do.)

[Krunk City King$]

I won't bother ranking, but I'll make a few predictions:

2) Kazmir is going to be better than Johan. Serious.

the mets fave up on him because his mechanics seemed to indicate that he is due for a serious injury down the road. and he is throwing a lot of pitches so far this season...i doubt that he will ever be better than johan.

IMHO

[SwisherSweet]

Top 10

Santana
Kazmir
Oswalt
Peavy
Shilling
Zambrano
Verlander
Liriano
Sabathia
Mussina

This list looks good I think...