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Bradfo

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

I think he would be a great acquisition for a lot of teams.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

You have Nick Martinez, same thing, friend of the program.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

Very, very valuable.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

Scherzer, Verlander.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

So those guys.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

But here's the thing about Giolito, because I think people sleep on Giolito about how good he can potentially be and how valuable he can potentially be.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

Maybe because how he ended the season.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

Maybe it was because how he began the season.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

I don't know.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

But here's a stat.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

I think it's important, but I'm sure it'll be picked apart, but so be it.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

Lucas Giolito allowed three or fewer earned runs in 19 of his 26 starts last year.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

I want to compare that to Edward Cabrera, who obviously was the big acquisition for the Cubs.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

Well, while Giolito was 19 of 26 in his starts, giving up three earned runs or less, Cabrera, 20 of 26.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

So just one game different.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

The team record in those games, 14-5 for the Red Sox, 14-6 for Cabrera.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

So basically identical in terms of giving up three or fewer runs and both had 26 starts.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

So there you go.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

I mean, that should tell you a little bit that how valuable Lucas Giolito could be.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Who Has The Best Starting Pitching? (And How Lucas Giolito Might Change Things.)

So I'm just mentioning this because as I get ready to take a look at these pitching groups – again, I will not say rotations, pitching groups –