Yet another way to dis the Padres

Peavy+Young>>>>>>>>>>Haren+Webb

are a better 1-2, but that is solely because of CY's injury problems. If he has a full healthy season, then I completely expect Jake and CY to put up petter numbers (park adjusted or not) than Webb and Haren.

Regardless, those rankings are a joke. Aaron Harang is a pretty good pitcher but Arroyo was awful last year. It's also a little ridiculous to see how low Verlander and Bonderman are rated.

the most ignorant piece of crap excuse for journalism I've ever had the displeasure of reading.

He did say take it with a grain of salt. The problem I see with his analysis (besides using ERA as a measuring stick) is that although as a whole, PETCO certainly helped our pitching staff last season, Jake and CY were less affected by it(pre CY injury). They are both good pitchers regardless where they pitch. He is probably right that the average pitcher will have more success in Petco, but to say that Jake and CY will only prevent 12.7 more earned runs than the average starter seems ridiculous. I have a hard time believing that having those two at the top of our rotation will only provide ONE extra win over having two league average starters at the top of our rotation. Maybe he shouldn't have used the Park Factor to adjust every start for every pitcher, after all, Jake and CY won't get to make EVERY start in Petco.

Regardless, Mr. Pinto has a pretty good website, and although I don't like this analysis, I will continue to read his stuff.

This time, by a Dodgers writer:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/jon_weisman/12/20/nl.rotations/index.html

doesn't make Jeff Francis and Aaron Cook taste good as the #3 1-2 punch in the majors.

I'm sure I could crunch some numbers to find Andujar Cedeno to be the best SS of all time.