my *favorite* meph memory is when he decided that he needed to take the heat off himself because people were starting to piece together he was writing the nsbblol thing, so he wrote an article about himself, and then praised himself in the article for being smart.
i had forgotten how much i would cringe at that sulley quote he'd keep in his sig about mozart and salieri sully is the only poster in nsbb history to be worse than meph, so it makes sense
Yeah his 2015 was obviously more fun (and the Dodgers no-hitter was amazing) but 2014 was wild. There was that Boston game where he flirted with a no-hitter and then several more in the same few starts and it quickly went from "no way this is a thing right?" to "is this a thing?" To "it's officially a thing." in record time.
I'm not sure how to make this make sense in words, but arrieta was a guy who was way harder for me to watch than he should have been. Maybe it was just because his 2015 was so outrageous, but the last two years were just hard to watch even thought ultimately he was still pretty valuable.
FWIW, ZiPS has them on par or maybe even better than the Brewers, although admittedly even with my doubts, ZiPS undersells Milwaukee. my god it's the ... vaunted phillies
that 2011 first round is crazy. Every pitcher is either a disappointment, never panned out, a reliever or literally dead. Meanwhile you have like george spring going 11, or Lindor going 8th.