I feel that instead of spending money on retreads and 35 year old rehabbers, We should go with our own guys. Go with as I stated earlier, Phelps and Nuno, move Warren back to the long roll he had last year. Pineda is a wildcard. Here is my reasons for this. Below is the MLB average for starters with different variations. Phelps era was 4.98, Nuno in limited inning 2.25, Warren was 3.35 in all. Why pay guys like Pelfrey to do the same. Give them a chance, build a strong bullpen, and hope we average 5+ runs a game. http://battlingbucs.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/the-average-starting-pitcher/ So at the end what this gave me was 5 groups of starters separated by ERA. I then used the total ER allowed by each group and the total IP by each group to come up with an ERA for the group. It was a pretty straight forward process but as you can see the explanation of it can make it sound a little complicated. Below are the results of my breakdown. #1 Starter: 3.06 ERA #2 Starter: 3.74 ERA #3 Starter: 4.12 ERA #4 Starter: 4.51 ERA #5 Starter: 5.47 ERA Average Starter: 4.12 ERA The ranges were as followed #1 Starter: 0.00-3.50 #2 Starter: 3.50-3.96 #3 Starter: 3.96-4.29 #4 Starter: 4.29-4.80 #5 Starter: 4.80-32.40 To get rid of the extremes I took away the top 10% and bottom 10% of each category and the ranges and averages doing that were: #1 Starter: 2.79-3.46 (Average of 3.09) #2 Starter: 3.56-3.91 (Average of 3.74) #3 Starter: 4.00-4.27 (Average of 4.11) #4 Starter: 4.31-4.75 (Average 4.51) #5 Starter: 4.90-6.37 (Average of 5.34)
