First Half Thoughts?

[Lefty]

Lately, our pitching has been dominant. Our pitchers have like an ERA of 1.50 during our win streak.

Over what, the last 30 games? That's about 6 starts per pitcher...small sample size is what I'm getting at.

 

[Got teeth? Keith doesn't.]

Over what, the last 30 games? That's about 6 starts per pitcher...small sample size is what I'm getting at.

And what is to make us think they can't keep up a solid 3.50-4.00 ERA mark the rest of the way?

 

[Lefty]

And what is to make us think they can't keep up a solid 3.50-4.00 ERA mark the rest of the way?

Well, that would mean the team would have to be at least 11% better than league average (remember, offense tends to pick up in the second half as rotations tire and so on, so I used 2009's AL ERA), with the upper mark of your hopeful team pitching ERA being attained only with the team pitching 27% above the league average.

So with a team that just lost Jake Peavy and is left with half of their proven MLB starting pitcher commodities being finesse pitchers, no, I don't think that's possible.