Comments on: Everyone insists Johan Santana is healthy despite 7.98 ERA

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 02:50:49 +0000

but he’s not a complete effing ahole, so that would never work. They have standards over there in bean town

By: pisano

pisano — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:55:14 +0000

With that era, he’d fit into the Red Sox rotation comfortably.

By: plmathfoto

plmathfoto — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:43:31 +0000

If any one else watched his last start, it reminded me of a game earlier in the year, I think against Atlanta as well, very few hard hit balls, bloops, bleeders, and groundballs, wasn’t near as bad as the stat line looked. Give it another start or two and see what happens.

By: tuftsb

tuftsb — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:14:36 +0000

Was he actually 16 when he signed with the Astros in 1995?

By: theboysofdallas

theboysofdallas — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:13:55 +0000

Just goes to show what injuries can do to a person, remember when he was on the twins

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:13:47 +0000

The guy is a big time flyball pitcher. I remember one of his good starts earlier in the year where he went 7 or 8 innings and had one out on the ground. With a fastball around 90mph his margin for error is TINY. I am sure people who are smarter than me could compare his BABIP and HR/FB ratios from before the no-no to after, but I would guess that we are not seeing much more than a stat correction or luck swing.