Yu Darvish

I agree my Husker friend.

And to think in almost all his starts I am wondering if he will get out of the first and then he settles in and pretty much dominates.

Sabermetrics guys all had him at about 13-14 wins. Seems it would take a pretty big train wreck to not exceed that total by at least three or four wins.

Some don't consider him a rookie but he will get ROY for sure.

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Originally posted by TPM:

Some don't consider him a rookie but he will get ROY for sure.

Mike Trout may have some opinions about that.

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Originally posted by Tx-Husker:
Heard today Darvish moved into rare company last night. Since 1900, only 2 rookie pitchers have won 10 games and had 100 strikeouts by July 1....Darvish became the 3rd last night. The kid is living up to, if not exceeding, the hype!

Hype? Lance Lynn is 10-3 (better record), 3.23 ERA (lower) and 92 strikeouts (a few less and born and made in america with less experience at the higher level) and the cardinals paid no where near what Texas paid for Darvish.

It's not yet July 1.

Get to 100 strikeouts and he can enter the 10/100 rookie discussion. Surely you are not saying, TPM, there was no hype around Darvish? There was over $100m of hype.

In looking strictly at Darvish's set salary, he is making $5.5 million this year. His pace certainly warrants that amount of money. However when factoring in the posting fee and backloading of contract, there needs to be significant improvement. He leads the AL in walks, and has a WHIP of nearly 1.4. He has an ERA+ of 122, which is very good, but a WAR of 1.9 which is good, but not in consistent translation with his ERA+.

The numbers he is putting up are very good. They're All-Star worthy and they're certainly ROY worthy. But they aren't $100 million worthy. Not yet, at least.

If the ROY vote were held today, I'd have to give it to Trout. Not only hitting .344 and leading majors in steals, he's also been a human highlight reel. All this after starting the year in the minors.