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NL Central Smackdown: The Aces
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Left Fielders | Poll |
I had to take a little break to bash Brenneman yesterday, but NL Central Smackdown is back. I was going to just try and cover all the pitching in one post and have you guys vote on the pitching staffs as a whole. But who really want to decide between Brandon Backe vs Braden Looper. On the other hand, the crown for the best staff ace is worthy of discussion.
Let's see how it breaks down...
| Player | 3-Year Warp-3 Average |
3 Year Warp-3 Projection |
Rob's Ranking |
| Carlos Zambrano |
8.1 |
4.1 |
3 |
| Ben Sheets |
5.13 |
3.47 | 4 |
| Adam Wainwright |
7 (1 year) |
3.6 |
5 |
| Roy Oswalt |
8.7 | 4.57 |
2 |
| Aaron Harang |
8.3 | 4.9 | 1 |
| Ian Snell | 4.43 |
3.6 | 6 |
The Justification: I just put Ian Snell in there so the Pirates didn't feel slighted. I won't even bother putting him in the poll. The list doesn't even include Chris Carpenter and Yovani Gallardo. And once again I remind everyone, I did these rankings before the year started.
It was pretty much a toss-up between Harang, Oswalt and Z for the top spot and if Ben Sheets could stay healthy, he's probably got the best stuff of the group. Z had been on a steady decline since 2004 in ERA and his peripheral numbers so I knocked him down to the three spot. Oswalt just got nudged by Harang due to my concerns over his dropping K rate. And Wainwright hadn't quiten proven himself to be considered with those heavyweights.
But now it's 2008 and Z is looking as good as ever, while Oswalt and Harang struggle out of the gate. Although in Harang's case, he's just not getting much run support. Sheets has been healthy for the most part and dominating and Wainwright has been matching all of them start for start.
So how say you? There's another poll for you guys to fill out below this and I'll leave the old polls open until we finish this.
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