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Twins Talk: Blackburn is the worst starter in baseball
The Blackburn riot of 2012 has started! More here.
Repoz Posted: August 18, 2012 at 07:48 AM | 0 comment(s) Login to BookmarkI take no joy in saying this, but Blackburn is the worst starting pitcher in baseball. He entered Friday with a 7.33 ERA. In 93.1 innings, he?d allowed 132 hits and struck out only 41. The league is batting .334 against him.
Normally a guy who gives up more than seven runs every nine innings isn?t given more than five or six chances to start, but Blackie was making his 19th start Friday, and his struggles are a continuation from last year.
Obviously the Twins keep sending Blackburn out there because they?re paying him a lot of money (they signed him to a multi-year contract following the 2009 season after he?d allowed a league-high 240 hits while striking out only 98 batters in 206 innings).
But it?s time to end this. Blackburn will never be a useful starting pitcher again. If the Twins don?t want to cut him and eat his contract, then stick him in the back of the bullpen and hope he might be a halfway decent mop-up man.
And don?t ever again give a multi-year contract to one of the most hittable pitchers in the game.
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