Man this is going to be disappointing when it comes crashing down.

As long as it doesn't happen until April, it's all good.

I liked the stat Vin read a few nights ago. Among pitchers with at least 100 starts and at least 1000 innings pitched, Kershaw's career ERA is the lowest since 1920.

Zero All Star starts. dafvck?

Yeah, that blew me away.

Can't wait to see if he racks up another Cy Young this year. Assuming ERA holds more weight than win-loss, he has a good shot, I think.

You got me looking at stats tables.

Harvey's WHIP, OBP (against), BA (against), Ks, BBs, etc. are all pretty identical to Kershaw's...yet Kershaw's got him beat by mile in ERA. Wonder what the difference is. Extra base hits? Stolen bases? They're letting the same proportion of batters reach base (more or less) but for some reason they are more likely to score when Harvey's on the mound than Kershaw.

The Dodgers have turned only 19 more DPs than the Mets, that doesn't seem like enough to account for that difference.

I think Kershaw's got to be the favorite for CY right now. It's not like he's way behind in the win/loss column, he's top or near the top in all the other key categories, and the gap between his ERA and Harvey's is bigger than the gap between Harvey's and the next 3 best.


ETA: Not stolen bases. 2 against Harvey, 4 against Kershaw

Nice going, Mattingly. Let's sit Gonzalez, Ellis, Crawford and Uribe on the same day and put a tie game in Brandon League's hands. Brilliant.

And we really need a better backup for Gonzalez. Hairston is a horrific first baseman.

End of rant - today's a new day.

Well if you're going to do it, doing it against a the (currently) worst team in baseball that's got an emotional hangover from the firing of a legend isn't a bad gamble.

"Legend" seems a bit strong for Charlie Manuel.

Local-legend.

Not specifically mlb related but i figure this will serve as good a as any sundry sports suppositions thread.

Been flipping to Fox Sports Live on the new FS1 network during Sports Center commercials. They need to die whoever convinced them that cutting 1/3 of the screen real estate with bloated unreadable blocks of text and graphics. What the hell?