One Thing To Play For
Did you notice how much Jason Simontacchi sucks? He has the highest ERA of anyone over 50 IP (6.37)
Yet he leads the team in wins with 6.
There's a pretty good chance that he'll get into double digits in wins.
Wanna guess how many pitchers have won 10+ games with an ERA as high as Simontacchi?
Since 2000, it's just two: Ryan Drese in 2002 and Colby Lewis in 2003. If those names sound familiar, it's because they are. Drese had 13 starts for the Nats over '05-'06. And Lewis was in spring training with the Nats, before being released and catching on with the A's.
Worse, Simontacchi would be the first NL pitcher to pull off the feat since Harry Staley won 12 with a 6.81 ERA in EIGHTEEN NINETY FOUR!!!
Colby Lewis, incidentally, had one of the worst starting pitching outingsin baseball history (By game score, that's the 25th worst since 1957). He gave up 10 earned runs in just 3+ innings against the White Sox in May.
To bring it full circle, Jason Simontacchi also gave up 10 earned in a game this year (the single worst game I've ever been to). By game score, that game, sadly, is only the 71st worst outing by a starter in baseball history.
So there's a lot to play for for Jason Simontacchi. Can he be the next Harry Staley?
We can only hope. We can only hope.
Yet he leads the team in wins with 6.
There's a pretty good chance that he'll get into double digits in wins.
Wanna guess how many pitchers have won 10+ games with an ERA as high as Simontacchi?
Since 2000, it's just two: Ryan Drese in 2002 and Colby Lewis in 2003. If those names sound familiar, it's because they are. Drese had 13 starts for the Nats over '05-'06. And Lewis was in spring training with the Nats, before being released and catching on with the A's.
Worse, Simontacchi would be the first NL pitcher to pull off the feat since Harry Staley won 12 with a 6.81 ERA in EIGHTEEN NINETY FOUR!!!
Colby Lewis, incidentally, had one of the worst starting pitching outingsin baseball history (By game score, that's the 25th worst since 1957). He gave up 10 earned runs in just 3+ innings against the White Sox in May.
To bring it full circle, Jason Simontacchi also gave up 10 earned in a game this year (the single worst game I've ever been to). By game score, that game, sadly, is only the 71st worst outing by a starter in baseball history.
So there's a lot to play for for Jason Simontacchi. Can he be the next Harry Staley?
We can only hope. We can only hope.
posted by Chris Needham at
10:42 PM
3 Comments:
Another thing to play for:
Since the Nats won #43 yesterday, they will NOT be the worst team of all time. Now they must play so as not to go 0-61, to ensure that they do not match the 2005 Tigers' record of futility.
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Positively Half St., at 7/27/2007 8:13 AM
Actually, the Nats are on a pace to win 69 games. How strange that they may end up with very nearly the same record as last year, but without Nick Johnson, Alfonso Soriano, and most of their pitching staff.
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Positively Half St., at 7/27/2007 8:55 AM
I doubt Simontacchi will win 10 games. At least if ERA stays at 6+ he won't.
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Anonymous, at 7/27/2007 9:31 AM
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