he actually hasn't been bad outside of his ERA...high BABIP allowed. tons of Ks. anyway, not really related but this actually reminded me of something. i remember thinking kerry wood's minor league numbers looked kinda crappy (this was based mostly on ERA) and i remember seeing the argument made on the cubs newsgroups that he was so nasty that minor league umps just couldn't call his stuff. well i just looked at his minor league numbers for probably the first time since then, and holy horsefeathers did he walk a ton of guys throughout the minors. he was much better in the big leagues from day one (and through pretty much his whole career) than he was in the minors. i wonder if there wasn't some truth to that theory, then.