Chad Gaudin to Yankees

[Bruno7481]

for PTBNL

[UMFan83]

He had been pitching well as of late, getting a lot of Ks and allowing a respectable amount of runs. Of course that was in San Diego facing NL teams. I'm not sure Gaudin pitching against the AL East is any better than what Sergio Mitre did.

[CubColtPacer]

He had been pitching well as of late, getting a lot of Ks and allowing a respectable amount of runs. Of course that was in San Diego facing NL teams. I'm not sure Gaudin pitching against the AL East is any better than what Sergio Mitre did.

 

He pitched pretty well in June but had a high ERA thanks to 2 really bad outings and a high HR rate.

 

His ERA had the lowest month of the season (besides the 5 innings in April) in July (4.31) but he allowed 52 baserunners in 31 1/3 innings and the only reason his ERA was so low was that he had 7 unearned runs in the month.

 

He then got shelled in his first August start.

 

I really don't think he's been pitching well at all, and as you said a guy who has struggled to put up a 5 ERA in San Diego is likely to have significant trouble pitching in the AL East. He has good stuff but his control is so poor both inside and outside the strike zone.

 

His peripherals would suggest he's been unlucky, both in his strand rate and his BABIP. But I think his strand rate is partially due to his inconsistency on the mound (he tends to lose both his control and his command in the strike zone at times which is going to bring lots of runners in, and then other innings he doesn't strand anybody and racks up the strikeouts which help his peripherals). He's probably been a bit unlucky but not nearly as much as the peripherals would indicate.