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Originally Posted by Jason1
Morris was awful last year. His ERA was 4.72 and he gave up 35 home runs. He was still 15-10 though, which is a testament to the Cardinals stellar offense. Which is why even if their Starting pitching dosent pull though quite as awsome as it did last season, theyre still going to win.
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I think it's more of a testiment to some pitches just being able to do that.
There's a bunch of major league players with 4/4.5 + ERA that are just somehow able to eat up a ton of innings and win double digits.
Mark Buehrle is a good example, as is Al Leiter, as is Jon Lieber. Kevin Appier did it for a while. You don't even have to win a lot of games, if you can stick around and eat up 200 innings a season, you're worth something in the majors, bonus points of you're left handed. Why do you think Glendon Rusch still has a job?