Starting Pitchers

[baldadonis]

After the early returns of this season, which pitcher would you most like to have to build your franchise around:

Brandon Webb
Jake Peavy
Johan Santana
CC Sabathia
Erik Bedard
Josh Beckett
Cliff Lee
Edinson Volquez
or Ervin Santana

I'd take Webb myself. Low ERA, keeps baserunners low, and will eat up more innings probably than anyone on this list. Opinions anyone.

 

[phutball]

Carlos Zambrano

 

[Heeko]

Daisuke Matsuzaka

 

[Mitchell]

I'll agree with Heeko and say Dice K.

One name I was surprised not to see on your list, bald, is Roy Halliday. He's a fine pitcher for a sorry Blue Jays team, and I think often gets overlooked. I'll take Halliday on a good team any day.

Mitch

 

[FlockOfSeagulls]

After the early returns of this season, which pitcher would you most like to have to build your franchise around:

Brandon Webb
Jake Peavy
Johan Santana
CC Sabathia
Erik Bedard
Josh Beckett
Cliff Lee
Edinson Volquez
or Ervin Santana

I'd take Webb myself. Low ERA, keeps baserunners low, and will eat up more innings probably than anyone on this list. Opinions anyone.

sorry but many of these guys are Johnny come lately type players

Lee is doing great, but let him do it for a full season. He was in the minors last year
Ervin Santana was one of the worst starting pitchers in the game last year

Volquez has been a top prospect ... until this year he was awful , he also has BIGTIME issues with his work ethic. I know this because I am a huge Ranger fan and all we did was hear how good he was, and all he did was disappoint on and off the field

any of the other guys should be staff aces for the next four to five years.

 

[baldadonis]

The list was intentionally left incomplete and had some one year wonders in there just for the sake of debate. Unless you list every player, you have to cut it off at some point, and then the question is always, why not the next guy.

Certainly, Roy Halladay is a notable omission. My feeling is that he is past the point where he is going to consistently win 20 games, and strike out over 200. He's a top tier 2 pitcher in my mind.

I'd probably have said Santana comfortably before this season, but I'm not sure what's going on with him. He wasn't dominant late in 2007 and hasn't been dominant with the underachieving Mets either.

Another good young guy I left off the list is Tim Lincecum.