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Originally Posted by alekhine8
5 Kershaw
11 Scherzer
15 Bumgarner
21 Sale
24 Syndergaard
26 Kluber
31 Arrieta
37 Lester
39 Darvish
45 Verlander
46 Cueto
48 Price
55 Strasburg
57 Carrasco
58 Archer
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Syndergaard as #4 SP off the board scares the crap out of me. Not only did he have a bunch of arm issues already last season, and consistently throws 100+ mph, but the Mets as an organization have an absolutely horrible track record of keeping pitchers healthy.
Verly in the top 10 kind of confuses me as well. He was very good last year, but hurt and pretty average in 2015, and terrible across the board in 2014. Why do people believe last year is the new "real" Verlander?
He actually gave up more HRs than ever and had the lowest GB rate of his career.
Are we really believing in a ~40% jump in K rate from 2014+2015 to 2016? Because that led to a huge jump in strand rate, which was the only thing that kept his ERA in check.
Also Archer ahead of Greinke seems weird. Greinke was a top 10 SP in 2014/2015 before falling apart for half of last year. Id think he has a better chance to bounce back than Archer and I prefer him over several guys on the
NFBC list.
What is the health status of Strasburg?
Also Salazar for that matter?
Edit - agree Tanaka should be up there (like him more than Greinke as well)
Last edited by cs3; 12-17-2016 at 02:21 AM.