These are my MR rankings. Only ERA, WHIP, and K are taken into account. These are weighted by projected IP. Ryan is the only important one who has any serious chance of closing any games aside from happenstance. Anyone after Frank Francisco is not close to draft-worthy, but may be useful down the road depending on if you need a little help in only ratios or only Ks (e.g. Duchscherer or Dreifort).
B.J. Ryan
Mike Gonzalez
Akinori Otsuka
Tom Gordon
Scott Linebrink
Juan Rincon
Scot Shields
Brendan Donnelly
Yhency Brazoban
Kiko Calero
Ryan Madson
Scott Williamson
Kent Mercker
Kyle Farnsworth
Juan Cruz
Dan Miceli
J.C. Romero
Mike Remlinger
Matt Miller
Frank Francisco
Rheal Cormier
Ron Mahay
Salomon Torres
Jay Witasick
Chris Hammond
Ray King
Paul Quantrill
Jamie Walker
Mike Timlin
Oscar Villarreal
Chad Bradford
Justin Duchscherer
Darren Dreifort
Steve Kline
Alan Embree
Shigetoshi Hasegawa
Ben Weber
Luis Vizcaino
Mike Adams
Steve Reed
Kevin Gregg
Ryan Wagner
Cal Eldred
Ricardo Rincon
Jon Leicester
Aquilino Lopez
Scott Dohmann
Brian Meadows
Tim Harikkala
TheYanks04 wrote:Isn't Cruz starting for the A's? Or has that yet to be determined?
I don't think he's scheduled to be a starter, though he could get plenty of spot starts with such a young rotation there are bound to be DL stints I would think. None of the starters outside of Zito have pitched more than 200 IP in a year have they?
Don't know about the IP counts. Have ot been following the A's pitcing meltdown after the Hudson and Mulder deals so I looked it up. Currently the A's rotation is listed as:
Rotation:
#1 Barry Zito lhp
#2 Rich Harden
#3 Dan Haren
#4 Joe Blanton
#5 Keiichi Yabu
on the site I use for such info.
Yabu?...He is 36 with no MLB experience so is he the next Takatsu or the next Irabu?. Meyer, Etherton and Cruz?
Blanton at #4 had a 4+ Era in AAA.
Looks like 4 and 5 in Oakland is a complete guesswork.
Damn! I never noticed how good Mike Gonzalez was last year. I have him in a keeper and liked the stats he gave me... but between AAA/MLB he had 90 K's and 13 BB's in 63 IP. And he only gave up 2 HRs. Before last season, he had virtually no experience past AA, and even in AA he had no success at all. What a breakout year. Anybody know why he missed most of 2003? It seems like he took time off of baseball to take lessons from RJ or something
"Jack, will you call me, if you're able?"
"I've got your phone number written, in the back of my Bible."
LBJackal wrote:Damn! I never noticed how good Mike Gonzalez was last year. I have him in a keeper and liked the stats he gave me... but between AAA/MLB he had 90 K's and 13 BB's in 63 IP. And he only gave up 2 HRs. Before last season, he had virtually no experience past AA, and even in AA he had no success at all. What a breakout year. Anybody know why he missed most of 2003? It seems like he took time off of baseball to take lessons from RJ or something
maybe he learned from that other lefty on the pirates that kind of had a decent year last year also.
LBJackal wrote:Damn! I never noticed how good Mike Gonzalez was last year. I have him in a keeper and liked the stats he gave me... but between AAA/MLB he had 90 K's and 13 BB's in 63 IP. And he only gave up 2 HRs. Before last season, he had virtually no experience past AA, and even in AA he had no success at all. What a breakout year. Anybody know why he missed most of 2003? It seems like he took time off of baseball to take lessons from RJ or something
maybe he learned from that other lefty on the pirates that kind of had a decent year last year also.
What are you talkin about? He taught Ollie how to pitch. See, after he RJ taught Mikey G, he passed on the knowledge to Ollie P. Get it? Got it? Good.
"Jack, will you call me, if you're able?"
"I've got your phone number written, in the back of my Bible."
LBJackal wrote:Damn! I never noticed how good Mike Gonzalez was last year. I have him in a keeper and liked the stats he gave me... but between AAA/MLB he had 90 K's and 13 BB's in 63 IP. And he only gave up 2 HRs. Before last season, he had virtually no experience past AA, and even in AA he had no success at all. What a breakout year. Anybody know why he missed most of 2003? It seems like he took time off of baseball to take lessons from RJ or something
maybe he learned from that other lefty on the pirates that kind of had a decent year last year also.
What are you talkin about? He taught Ollie how to pitch. See, after he RJ taught Mikey G, he passed on the knowledge to Ollie P. Get it? Got it? Good.
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by RugbyD » Sat Jan 15, 2005 5:09 pm 
