I really didn't know what to expect before 2015. I was shocked when Pablo and Hanley were announced on the same day and I was doubly shocked when Ben assembled that rotation. I thought it could go well or it might go very wrong. That's what I mean about Ben and his X factors.
The ERA gap from top to bottom this year looks huge only because of Houston. Their ERA is 0.60 better than second place.
Take out that massive outlier and see if it's much different than previous years.
Tell me something jung, if major league pitching is so awful, how come the average ERA in baseball is only 4.10?
Let me guess. Major league hitters are even worse, right?
I partially buy this and I partially don't. I think Ben built a lot of X factor into his teams. A lot of guys who were highly variable in performance for one reason or other. Guys who were really hard to predict.
Theo kept turning out 95 win seasons. The Yanks as I reluctantly pointed out haven't been under .500 since 1992. For some reason Ben was Mr. Feast or Famine...