June 12, 2007
Rating the Rookies
Mr. Irrelevant likes Jeremy Guthrie for AL Rookie of the Year.
Coming into this season, it was Erik Bedard, Daniel Cabrera and Adam Loewen who gave Baltimore hope for the future. Despite Bedard's amazing strikeout rate, it's Guthrie who's their ace through first two-fifths of the season. The 28 year-old has only three wins (thanks, Chris Ray!), but check out these numbers: 2.70 ERA, 0.93 WHIP and five or more innings and three or less runs in each of his eight starts. If he pitched for Boston there's a good chance he'd be 8-0 and the talk of baseball right now.
And he keeps getting better. His batting average, OBA and slugging percentage allowed went down from April to May to June. Now he just needs the support from the offense and the pen to pick up some wins.
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Are you sure Guthrie's a rookie? I think he may have spent 45 days on active rosters in Cleveland. I could be wrong though.
As he did with Jaret Wright, Leo Mazzone turns another Cleveland waste-product into a productive pitcher. Amazing. If Carmona hadn't have nixed his rookie status by pitching last season, I would like him for the award.