The Washington Nationals are not a very good team. This year, so far, they have been an historically bad team. Yes, as bad as the 1962 Mets or 2003 Tigers. That is a pretty impressive feat. It’s funny because when you compare the 2009 Nationals roster to the 1962 Mets or 2003 Tigers you are [...]
Archive of posts tagged pitching matchups
Pitching Matchups – Boston Series
First Boston series of ten million over the course of the season. I don’t care the way some people do about rivalries in general, and this particular one I find myself sick of weeks in advance due to the constant pushing it gets from ESPN/etc. These teams are pretty evenly matched, but Boston has been [...]
Pitching Matchups – Oakland Series
Monday, April 20th Andy Pettitte (1-0, .767WHIP, 2.51ERA) vs Dana Eveland (0-0, 1.969WHIP, 6.75ERA) Andy’s looked pretty good against some tough offensive teams so far, and this will be his first start at the New Yankee Stadium (if it happens, the weather isn’t looking so hot). He is sadly probably due for a bad (or [...]
Pitching Matchups – Cleveland Series
The Yankees are facing the Indians just once at home this year, in a four game series. I’ve decided to forgo listing any pertinent stats like ERA/WHIP/etc until everyone’s got at least three games under their belt. Cleveland has been playing very poorly, which is strange as they are not as terrible as their record [...]
Pitching Matchups – Tampa Bay Series
There’s a good chance that Tampa actually is a better team than the Yankees but I’m not ready to accept that yet because I enjoy having my own little delusions. The two big things here are: BJ Upton is coming back (nooo) and Mark Teixeira might miss some more games (noooooooooo). In any case, here [...]
Pitching Matchups – Kansas City Series
The Yankees are in Kansas City today to open up Kaufman for the year against the Royals. They are avoiding probably the best pitcher in KC’s rotation (Zack Greinke), thankfully. Here’s how it shapes up: Friday, April 10th Andy Pettitte (NR) vs Sidney Ponson (NR) Andy’s first start of the year. He faced the Royals [...]
Pitching Matchups – Baltimore Series
Ah, the first pitching matchups of the year. Even if today’s game doesn’t happen, these will stay the same because it’s the first series of the season and what have you. Monday, April 6th CC Sabathia (NR) vs Jeremy Guthrie (NR) Jeremy Guthrie is the only known not terrible entity in the 2009 Orioles rotation. [...]
Pitching Matchups: Boston Series
The Yankees somehow eked out a sweep against the Orioles, which was extremely unexpected given their performance against the team most of the season and the fact that Darrell Rasner was pitching one of the games in the series. Well, Rasner himself was pretty awful but luckily Daniel Cabrera seems to have remembered he is [...]
Pitching Matchups In The (Latest) Baltimore Series
Friday, August 22nd Mike Mussina (16-7, 3.35ERA, 1.2WHIP) vs Radhames Liz (4-3, 7.47ERA, 1.787WHIP) The Orioles–out of nowhere, with people like Aubrey Huff, Melvin Mora and Luke Scott all performing very well–have something like the third best offense in the AL. Mussina’s had some trouble with them this year, and I expect this to continue [...]
Pitching Matchups in the Toronto Series (Are Hilarious and Sad)
Tuesday, August 19th Darrell Rasner (5-9, 5.18ERA, 1.522WHIP) vs. A.J. Burnett (15-9, 4.67ERA, 1.422WHIP) Burnett’s numbers are deceiving because he always kills the Yankees. Then again, so does Darrell Rasner. Wednesday, August 20th Andy Pettitte (12-9, 4.30ERA, 1.371WHIP) vs David Purcey (2-3, 5.93ERA, 1.451WHIP) Oh look, a subpar LHP in David Purcey. I know how [...]
