keywords: when healthy. You can't just base hope on a new season that AJ will 'be healthy'.. I mean.. even Doc is injury prone when it comes to line drives hit at him.
what is funny is that what Lilly is making.. makes JP a genious to sign AJ last year. The market, like i mentioned, states that a .500 pitcher now gets 10 million dollars. so say we don't spend that extra 6 million.. who do you want to pick up for 4 million? You sure ain't getting a pitcher like Mesche or Lille.ok lets say we did get lilly for 10 million, we would be paying about 6 million more for the same type of performance we got this year.
you are wrong . This is not counting on Lilly being better. It's counting on Lilly remaining at status quo. If Lilly were to improve, he'd be a 18-19 game winner.and where did we finish? 2nd in the east?...
and theres no guarantee that lilly would be better than last yr...and from past years it wouldn't indicate that he would be better.
there is one guarantee.. he will win 1/2 his games 90% of the time. It's certainly a lot better than throwing Josh Towers out there every 5 days.