Comments on: Brian Roberts = 2007 All-Star http://thesportsnote.com/2007/07/01/brian-roberts-2007-all-star/ Orioles, Wizards, Redskins....and more Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:02:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Crucifictorious http://thesportsnote.com/2007/07/01/brian-roberts-2007-all-star/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Crucifictorious Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:20:13 +0000 http://thesportsnote.com/2007/07/01/brian-roberts-2007-all-star/#comment-34 We were arguing about this over on our blog, eventually concluding that this is the deepest year of AL All-Star pitchers we've seen in a while. I don't know who's the weakest, outside of Meche, of the included starters. Lackey, maybe? (It's like, which Mercedes convertible is your least favorite) That being said, Guthrie is putting up ridiculous numbers (at least the ones under his control) and about the only pitcher you can argue to be ahead of him, based on WHIP and starter ERA, is Haren. And because baseball assigns value to the All-Star game outcome, you clearly want your league's best pitchers on the team. As long as that's the case, you need to have Guthrie on the team. No knock to the other All-Stars, but the man has been a top 2 starting pitcher. I mentioned this on Camden Chat, but one of our bloggers argues this point better than I can... http://weritegoode.blogspot.com/2007/07/great-mormons-in-sports.html We were arguing about this over on our blog, eventually concluding that this is the deepest year of AL All-Star pitchers we’ve seen in a while. I don’t know who’s the weakest, outside of Meche, of the included starters. Lackey, maybe? (It’s like, which Mercedes convertible is your least favorite) That being said, Guthrie is putting up ridiculous numbers (at least the ones under his control) and about the only pitcher you can argue to be ahead of him, based on WHIP and starter ERA, is Haren.

And because baseball assigns value to the All-Star game outcome, you clearly want your league’s best pitchers on the team. As long as that’s the case, you need to have Guthrie on the team. No knock to the other All-Stars, but the man has been a top 2 starting pitcher.

I mentioned this on Camden Chat, but one of our bloggers argues this point better than I can…
http://weritegoode.blogspot.com/2007/07/great-mormons-in-sports.html

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