Saturday, June 2, 2012

HBT: Pirates' Burnett has been great, mostly

A.J. Burnett?s overall numbers are plenty good, as last night?s seven innings of one-run ball versus the Reds lowered his ERA to 3.60 in 50 innings.

However, one terrible start against the Cardinals on May 2 accounts for 60 percent of the earned runs Burnett has allowed all season. Seriously.

He coughed up 12 runs in 2.2 innings versus St. Louis that day and if you remove that ugly outing from his season totals Burnett has a 1.52 ERA and 40/13 K/BB ratio in 47 innings while holding opponents to a .208 batting average.

That one ugly start still happened, of course, so completely ignoring it would be silly, but considering how disappointing he was for the Yankees and how many people wrote him off as washed up Burnett deserves some attention. And the Pirates are looking plenty smart for taking him off the Yankees? hands for pennies on the dollar.

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