Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 31, 2006
More on Marquis

I wrote a post about Jason Marquis pitching poorly but in line for a win last night without supplying the proper background for new readers. (Marquis did in fact get the win.) Marquis had pitched badly to the extreme in losses this year. Viva el Birdos points out:

the king of blowout losses, jason marquis, set a new franchise record last night for victories by a pitcher with a 5.00+ era; congratulations. he also crept to within 7 points of bill sherdel's franchise record for highest era by a qualifier (set in 1929). and, most impressively, he has returned to the top of the nat'l league leaderboard in wins, joining penny, zambrano, webb, and trachsel in a five-way tie. and so jason sustains his peculiar disjunction: 1st in the league in wins, dead last in era. if he can keep it up for one more month, he'll be the first man in history to accomplish the deed. i'm rooting for him like crazy.

He's the opposite of Kevin Millwood last year. Millwood had the best ERA in the AL but a losing record. Here's more history on the issue from el Bridos.



Posted by David Pinto at 10:11 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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