brief explanation
2007-06-18 19:39:22 · 28 answers · asked by SPUR 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
dan haren.
the man is having a career year with an 8-2 record and a 1.64 era the A's are having a pretty good season and he is obviously the ace of that staff. he should be starting in the all star game and i hope he does
2007-06-18 19:49:34 · answer #1 · answered by elias 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gaudin. Chad Gaudin. Under-rated? Try invisible. 3rd best ERA in the AL and a 6-1 record with a couple of bullpen blown saves. This kid is icy cool on the outside but his intensity and consistency has him the obvious answer to your question. As for the early rookie of the year? On the A's offense- try Travis Buck and Jack Cust. You gotta love these kids. The A's are in the toughest division in baseball but will only get better with Rich Harden, Milton Bradley, Mike Piazza, and Houston Street all due back from the DL soon. Oh yes 23 individual NY Yankees make more money then the A's entire roster. Year after year the A's play great ball but the media is blind to it. That's OK, we'll see you in October again. I am an obvious A's fan but the continued success of the franchise has to be admired.
2007-06-19 02:14:33 · answer #2 · answered by P-Man 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Santiago Casilla #44 | Relief Pitcher | Oakland Athletics Height: 6-0 Weight: 202
Bats: R Throws: R
Born: Jul 25, 1980 - San Cristobal, Dominican Republic
College: None
Draft: None
W-L ERA K Walks Saves
2-0 0.00 10 3 2
He has not given up a run this season and just added two saves.
2007-06-19 01:30:15 · answer #3 · answered by Menehune 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chris Young, San Diego Padres.
If he were playing for the Dodgers or Yankees he'd be treated as the second coming. But on an absolutely SICK pitching staff he seems to be a little more in the background against the likes of Maddux or Peavy. He's got all of the makeup of an ace pitcher and the right attitude to go with it. Of course it doesn't hurt to pitch at PETCO, but remember that he had a string of something like 23 road starts without a loss snapped only this season.
2007-06-18 19:51:54 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say a tie between Fausto Carmona and Chien-Ming Wang.
Carmona is an unbelievable talent at such a young age. This guy, early in the season, shut out the Twins to out duel Johan Santana. I am a fantasy baseball player and have been really watching this guy. He's my pick for rookie of the year.
Wang is so realiable. This guy just keeps th ball down in the zone. He is not fly ball prone, almost all his outs are groundouts. He was runner up for the Cy Young last year and plays for the New York Yankees, yet he is vastly unknown. The knock on him is he doesn't get many strikeouts, which hurts him in fantasy leagues, yet in real baseball, he is a fantastic pitcher.
2007-06-18 21:15:34 · answer #5 · answered by yankeefan175 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know many people are saying Dan Haren, I'm going to go with another guy from Oakland: Chad Gaudin.
Gaudin was completely sure that he was going to be a middle reliever as he had been the last four years until the final day of Spring Training. Since then he has gone 6-1 with a 2.85 ERA.
When was the last time you heard someone name Chad Gaudin as one of the best pitchers in the AL?
Well Gaudin is 3rd in winning percentage behind Bonderman (well known) and Beckett (very well known). And he is 4th in ERA behind Haren, Lackey, and Guthrie (all three are not that popular but much better know than Gaudin)
2007-06-18 20:23:24 · answer #6 · answered by KnightsHuSayNee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say James Shields of Tampa Bay. He's 6-1 with an era of 3.30 and a whip of 0.97 pitching in the AL East.
He should be 8-1.
Went 9 innings against the O's with no earned runs and lost
1-0.
Went 7 innings against the Marlins and gave up 1 run only to have the bull pen come in and blow the game 4-3.
2007-06-19 03:53:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My top 2 choices (Bedard and Haren) have been said so I will go with a lefty playing in a pitchers hell in Colorado. Jeff Francis has a decent ERA (3.61) for a Colorado pitcher and has had a winning record his first 2 years in the bigs winning 14 games and then 13 games last year. He is effective against lefties and doesn't give up too many long balls. I think he is very underrated.
2007-06-19 00:34:10 · answer #8 · answered by Will P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The guy who said Wang is an idiot...we're looking for underated, not overexposed.... My vote would go to James Shields of the D-Rays. Dude is 6-1 on a horrible team, has an ERA of 3.30 and has a 4:1 K/BB ratio. He's a stud but since he plays in Tampa he won't win the Cy or get recognized as much as he should. maybe when he leaves to go to New York or Boston in a few years the rest of the country will find out how good he really is.
2007-06-18 20:10:24 · answer #9 · answered by ajn4664_ksu 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
John Lackey
He plays in the west coast and not a lot of people get to see him in the east on sports center or whatever
dude's one helluva pitcher...i know he has kinda struggled in the last couple of starts but he carried the team with his pitching during his starts when the team wasn't hitting for like the first 5 weeks in april.
2007-06-18 19:42:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jon Garland - Chicago White Sox
He won the most games combined in 2005-2006! Even with getting no run support - or the bullpen blowing games, he has done this.
Only CC Sabathia has won more games than him if you look at active pitchers currently under 28 years of age. And no one talks about him.
2007-06-19 02:12:11 · answer #11 · answered by That's what she said 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋