The Phillies' big 3

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Halladay- 2.27 ERA, 190/26 K/BB, 1.04 WHIP, 7.99 K/9

Hamels- 3.18 ERA, 183/53 K/BB, 1.18 WHIP 9.1 K/9

Oswalt- 3.01 ERA, 161/49 K/BB, 1.08 WHIP, 8.2 K/9

 

What was the last 1-2-3 as good as this?

[NonProfitCow]

Wainwright, Carpenter, Garcia

[TruffleShuffle]

prior, wood... i don't want to think about this any more :x

 

the cardinals are pretty much just as good with jaime garcia's miracle year.

 

as for other great rotations in the last 10-15 years, there were all the braves rotations (maddux, glavine, smoltz, sometimes millwood, hell even john burkett had a great year in 2001)

 

hudson, zito, mulder with the A's.

 

2002 red sox with pedro, lowe and wakefield.

 

2005 chemically enhanced astros (oswalt, pettitte, clemens)

 

side note, the braves had a team ERA+ of 133 in 2002, which is [expletive] insane.

 

unfortunately brandon webb started getting good right when randy johnson went downhill.

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the only way jaime garcia qualifies for "big 3" status is if you look at ERA and nothing else

[The Logan]

I have a feeling we'll be talking about Lincecum, Cain, and Bumgarner for many years to come... if Lincecum doesn't destroy his arm.

 

And if it weren't for Brandon Webb's injuries and a couple of ridiculously stupid trades, Webb-Haren-Scherzer would've been a formidable trio

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I have a feeling we'll be talking about Lincecum, Cain, and Bumgarner for many years to come... if Lincecum doesn't destroy his arm.

 

lincecum doesn't qualify this season.

[sneakypower]

Lincecum's in the top 10 for xFIP in all of baseball, ahead of both Oswalt and Hamels

 

And if it weren't for Brandon Webb's injuries and a couple of ridiculously stupid trades, Webb-Haren-Scherzer would've been a formidable trio

are they really worse off with Hudson over Scherzer?

[The Logan]

And if it weren't for Brandon Webb's injuries and a couple of ridiculously stupid trades, Webb-Haren-Scherzer would've been a formidable trio

are they really worse off with Hudson over Scherzer?

 

Touché, sir... but Kennedy-Saunders-Hudson doesn't sound as good :). I do like Kennedy and Hudson though, they're gonna be a good 1-2.

 

I'm still baffled by the perceived value of Edwin Jackson, though

Edited September 8, 2010 by The Logan

[erik316wttn]

If they make the playoffs, they're my NL pick with those 3 guys.

[sneakypower]

I'm still baffled by the perceived value of Edwin Jackson, though

i'm baffled by your bafflement

 

Don Cooper has long wanted to work with Jackson and the early returns of their work together have been nothing short of fantastic

[The Logan]

I'm still baffled by the perceived value of Edwin Jackson, though

i'm baffled by your bafflement

 

Don Cooper has long wanted to work with Jackson and the early returns of their work together have been nothing short of fantastic

 

Didn't realize how well he was doing in Chicago. I'm just befuddled by the fact that prior to this season, he was only REALLY good for half of one season as a starter (2009 first half) in his whole career, yet he has been able to net teams top young pitchers like Max Scherzer and Daniel Hudson in exchange (not to mention Chicago's 2009 2nd round pick David Holmberg), and if I'm not mistaken Williams was trying to spin him for Adam Dunn.

 

I'm not saying Jackson is a joke, he's still relatively young and has shown lots of promise, but he hasn't put up numbers that should be getting teams all riled up in a tizzy about him.

[SouthSideRyan]

Wainwright, Carpenter, Garcia

 

Maybe he meant on a good team.