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Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
My Ace And All: Angels 6, Indians 5
Folks, we have an Ace.One good performance does not an ace make, a circumstance that the Angels' leading cheesehead, Jarrod Washburn, has an intimate familiarity with. Wash's 8.0 IP, one-run game against the A's should have put him in line for that mantle, right? Instead, we got the Old Wash, and as usual, the Angels had to struggle to make up for his leakiness. It's the same problem facing John Lackey, save that Washburn's time with the club is probably drawing to a close.-- Rev. Halofan, on Bartolo Colon's 4/20 performance
With O-Cab smacking a walkoff homer into the left field stands, the temptation is to say O-Cab replaces Eckstein's production nicely, especially given Cabrera's two homers on the year, and Eckstein's zero. Actually, Eck's .289/.429/.333 line gives him a 4.2 VORP, while Cabrera owns a 2.5 VORP. I don't say Eck will be able to keep that up over 162 games, but I do maintain the Halos have once more overpaid for a player they absolutely didn't need to. Frankly, I'd rather see they got a real ace. Too bad the pitching available in free agency lately has been so thin.
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