Now, the pitching stats:
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Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K
C. Kirk 12 12 7 4 0 4.80 90.0 103 51 48 18 52
R. Mcnett 12 12 5 3 0 4.63 83.2 89 47 43 16 55
K. Pillsbury 13 13 4 7 0 4.79 97.2 104 57 52 24 65
J. Virgen 14 0 3 0 4 3.86 28.0 29 14 12 7 18
T. Rivera 11 8 3 3 0 5.69 55.1 62 38 35 19 27
A. Hawthorn 11 10 2 4 0 7.63 59.0 102 53 50 18 31
F. Lemire 9 0 1 1 0 7.16 16.1 19 16 13 6 19
L. Salguero 12 0 1 1 0 6.38 18.1 24 13 13 5 16
R. Torre 7 0 1 1 0 5.84 12.1 13 8 8 11 7
L. Waltz 3 0 0 0 0 3.00 3.0 2 1 1 2 1
R. Gomez 16 0 0 4 4 5.82 17.0 22 12 11 2 16
Well, I'd say the starting pitching is much improved.
Christopher Kirk,
Robert McNett, and
Kenny Pillsbury have really settled in. None of them are really true aces, but they've all been pretty solid.
Tony Rivera has made a couple of decent starts in a row, and even
Arden Hawthorn has pitched a tiny bit better lately- though I don't really think he's going to stick it out in the rotation for the entire year.
The bullpen is what scares me.
Ramon Gomez and
James Virgen are supposed to be the top guys here, and while Virgen has been solid, Gomez has been incredibly unreliable. The rest of the guys I'm just not that confident about. Internally, there
is a pretty good prospect in AAA now, but he might be a bit too home run prone still. Trading for a reliever doesn't look like an easy task, however, so I might just have to wait it out a bit. Gomez and
Leo Salguero are two guys who really are underachieving a lot right now, so they could turn it around....