2006-08-10 13:39:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
lots of teams need pitchers and want a vetren in there...even if they get hit up. I guess overall they just get lucky
2006-08-10 13:48:32 · answer #1 · answered by matthew 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An ERA in today's game is right around the league average.
It didn't used to be that way for sure -- but with diluted talent in the bigs, small bandbox ballparks that are really not at all fair to pitchers (see Colorado or Cincinnati), corked bats, tightly wound juiced up balls and hitters that have been juicing for years and the ERA goes up.
I'm a Reds fan and on any given night there are 5 home runs hit on average. That just isn't fair for a pitcher.
2006-08-10 15:27:59 · answer #2 · answered by BShakey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i could slender that record all the way down to Jon Lester, Volquez, and Scherzer. yet that is in straightforward words from the numbers they have put up this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. Volquez is putting up CY youthful form numbers, wearing a record of seven-a million with an era of one million.33 and astounding out sixty 2 batters in fifty 4.a million. This guy is nice there, if he can stay healthful and keep putting up those wonderful numbers, he's gonna be large, truly, he already is giant. Jon Lester, all I gotta say is that the guy is in straightforward words 24 years previous, and has already been said as as a lot because the large leagues, AND thrown a no-hitter. no longer many gamers can throw a no-hitter, yet a guy new to the league, and under no circumstances very experienced throwing one is amazingly wonderful. next in line is Max Scherzer. even besides the undeniable fact that he has a record of 0-2, he has a 2.33 era. He has struck out 23 batters in 19.a million innings, as well as in straightforward words strolling 7. He has a outstanding destiny, and that i desire he maintains to pitch nicely.
2016-11-24 19:19:36 · answer #3 · answered by omparsad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there back of the rotation material all they end up on shitty teams. But some have to have talent to play on a Major League level that is hard as hell to do. Sometimes managers see something special in them or just a veterans and can give the team a solid 7 innings or 6
2006-08-10 17:09:29 · answer #4 · answered by monte_x2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some pitchers need more time to develop or help the team in ways that can't be measured by statistics. Besides, some teams don't have anyone that they could bring up from the minors that would do better.
2006-08-10 14:45:17 · answer #5 · answered by x 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
offense is up so giving up 4-5 runs in the bigs these days is not horrible - what teams really look for in a pic is someone who can stay healthy and pitch a lot of innings - these days, if the starting pitcher can pitch 6 strong innings and give his team a chance to win, he'll ALWAYS have a job, especially if he's left handed
2006-08-10 14:07:53 · answer #6 · answered by Big Buddy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since an average ERA is about 4.50 they stay because they are average big leaguers.
2006-08-14 11:40:11 · answer #7 · answered by danceman528 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blame expansion, which caused diluted pitching.
2006-08-10 14:28:10 · answer #8 · answered by Craig G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
play on terrible teams like the royals.
2006-08-10 13:53:47 · answer #9 · answered by CK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they need veterans and they arnt about to bring up a bunch or rookies
2006-08-14 12:03:56 · answer #10 · answered by BLAkHAWk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋