I wonder what some posters would have posted about this Red Sox pitcher who ended the 2004 exhibition season with a 15.59 ERA.  In nine spring training innings, he surrendered 17 hits and 15 runs while striking out just two batters.  Who was it?

To preempt Pike's whining.....

Yes!  Lackey will likely suck :(

Other than Lackey, it would be highly rediculous to try to predict how they will do based SOLELY on ST!

As the biggest Red Sox fan in HISTORY, I will still pull for Lackey every 5 games!  What choice do we have?

In response to redsoxdirtdog's comment:

What about the question, dirtdog?  Any guesses?

i tried looking it up but got couldn't find it on the google machine...

clearly it is a pitcher who went on to have a good year otherwise you probably wouldn't have posed the question....
 schilling maybe??

In response to mef429's comment:

Incorrect.  Next contestant, please.

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In response to softlaw2's comment:

Sorry, Softlaw.  Time is up.  You wasted your alloted time bloviating again.  

sherriff you ba$tard.

no one with a line like that....

http://espn.go.com/mlb/springStats/_/team/bos/year/2004/type/pitch

it was Foulke! :D

PLAYER             ERA         G       IP        H   R  ER
------        -  -  -  ---   - -- -- ---    --   -   -  --

R Garcia          0.00          5      5.0       3   0   0
D McCarty       0.00          1      0.2       2   0   0
E Glaser          0.00          1      1.0       1   0   0
J Howell          0.00          1      1.0       0   0   0
J Nelson          0.00          1      2.0       2   0   0
E Johnson       0.00          1      1.0       0   0   0
A Alvarez        0.00          2      3.0       2   0   0
J Gamble        0.00          2      2.0       2   0   0
L Dinardo        0.00         4      5.2       3   0   0
B Hebson        0.00          3      3.1       1   0   0
B Jones           1.74         9     10.1      5   2   2
C Schilling       2.10         5     25.2     16   6   6
D Lowe           2.17         7     29.0      20   9   7
T Hamulack     2.38       10     11.1      4   3   3
A Martinez       2.46        8       7.1      6   3   2
J Brown          3.00         4      6.0       8   2   2
T Wakefield     3.22        6      22.1     20   9   8
A Embree        3.86        7      7.0       9   3   3
B Arroyo         4.09        6      22.0     21  10  10
B Kim             4.16        2       4.1      3   2   2
P Seibel          4.50        4       8.0      8   4   4
M Malaska      4.50        6       6.0       5   3   3
F Brooks         5.14        7      7.0       8   4   4
S Williamson   5.69        7      6.1       8   4   4
C Zink            6.00        3      3.0       2   2   2
R Mendoza      6.35        4      5.2       5   4   4
P Martinez      6.75        5      16.0     20  14  12
N Bierbrodt     9.00        3      3.0       4   3   3
M Timlin        9.00      10     12.0    16  12  12
E Almonte      10.13       5      5.1      10   6   6
C Morla          11.59       2      2.1      2   3   3
F Castillo       13.53        1      1.1      4   2   2
K Foulke        15.00       8       9.0     17  15  15
J Shiell          16.19       6       6.2     12  12  12
E Yarnall        36.00       1      1.0       4   4   4

In response to mef429's comment:

You didn't look further down the list, mef.  My source was a bit off on ERA, but close enough.  Could have done the math myself and seen that it was wrong.  Otherwise, all the other numbers are correct.  

In response to Sheriff-Rojas' comment:

 

In response to mef429's comment:

 

sherriff you ba$tard.

no one with a line like that....

http://espn.go.com/mlb/springStats/_/team/bos/year/2004/type/pitch

Mike Timlin let up 12 ER in 12 innings in 10 games... thats as close as i could find

 

You didn't look further down the list, mef.  My source was a bit off on ERA, but close enough.  Could have done the math myself and seen that it was wrong.  Otherwise, all the other numbers are correct.  

 

 

*facepalm* don't know how i didn't see that one LOL!

i cleaned up the list a little bit when i copied it over, it was really cluttered with a bunch of meaningless stats (who pitches a complete game in ST??) and hard to navigate.

I still don't know how i missed it even after i deleted the unnecessary parts.

 

shhhhhhhhhhhhhh... it never happened :)

In response to mef429's comment:

You were right about one thing, though.  This player did have a helluva season.  Timlin, who was almost as bad in ST, didn't have such a bad regular season either.

In response to softlaw2's comment:

yes

ST games brings us back to the old days

B4 superstats

when watching the games actually mattered ;-)

Who has posted a .310/.366/.585/.951 line this spring?

The Seattle Mariners.

As a team.

In 11 games.

As we all know, Spring Training statistics have little predictive value.

In response to hill55's comment:

how big/small if their ST park compared to SafeCo??

oooops!   Now Lackey's tearing it up against Puerto Rico, our 51st state......

Now he really is in contention for the Cy Young!  :)

Seriously though....  I was very please by what I read.  31 - 46 strikes :)  Hitting his spots.  Throwing all 4 pitches.  Throwing in the 90's+ :)   I hope he takes all the banging he's endured, & shoves it up our ......  I still like his new attitude.  It would be a great story of redemption to have him come on strong & "LEAD" this SR back in the right direction???  What a story that would be!  Fingers crossed!!!

Come on Lack! 

yeh yeh yeh!  I heard it.  Make up your mind on Lackey already.  :)

Kind of the point of the thread.

The answer?  It's really tough to make predictions about a pitcher, as they're working on their stuff....

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