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"Quite a few career years"? Like who?  I'm curious to see the long list of names........... |
Start with Konerko, His OPS+ was 136, career 114. Oh, and it's a contract year. Interesting how that works...
Anyways, aside from Konerko (and Dye to some extent), their offense was below league average. If they expect to be true condenters next season, they will have to upgrade that offense.
Burhle - ERA+ of 143 vs career ERA+ of 128
Garland, after 5 years of mediocrity, he pulls a 127 ERA+. Remind anyone of Beltre?
Cotts - ERA+ 229!!?
Hermanson - from league average to 218 ERA+
Politte - ERA+ 222 vs career 112
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Buerhle isn't an ace? Name ONE lefty who has more wins in the last five years.  Garcia has AVERAGED a shade under 15 wins a season for the last six years. Not too shabby as a number three.
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Evaluating pitchers based on W-L is setting yourself up for disaster. Going into the 2005 season guess who had the most wins since like 2000 - Russ Ortiz.
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We all saw how he struggled against Boston in the ALDS, eh? I hope all their pitchers suck that bad next year! 
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Things happen in the postseason, for proof that El Duque sucked, look at his 2005 regular season stats. He was far below league average.
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If a "good but not great" rotation gets you the lowest ERA in the ENTIRE AL, like the Sox had this year, I'll take it. 
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Actually, they tied with Cleveland and were just 0.10 ahead of Min. It's not as if they ran away with it. Their pen went so far beyond expectations and they won't repeat that.
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I have found on many forums the last few weeks people who didn't have much of a clue about the Sox (especially their pitching) because they get limited media coverage. If people would take a look at the hard stats, they might see it wasn't a fluke.
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Perhaps you should take a second look at the stats. They won their division because they manhandled their division. Outside of the ALC, they were a .500 team.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/2005.shtml