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**House of Pancakes** · 09-10-2004, 02:54 PM

In terms of dominating hitters, there are only three guys who come to my mind as being the best pitchers in the game this year:

Randy Johnson, Johan Santana, and Jason Schmidt.

All three have had their streaks of dominance. Schmidt had been dominant all season long and won 10 decisions in a row at one point, but lately he's been getting hit. Johnson should have 18-20 wins by now, but Arizona gives him no run support. He's been pretty great all season. Santana got lit up the first two months of the season, but since then he hasn't had ONE non-quality start and has a 1.5 ERA. Plus, he's 25.

So take your pick from those three. I'll take Santana because of the youth factor and because he's been absolutely unhittable for three months.

By the way, anybody notice that Brad Lidge has the highest K/9 ratio in history this year [I think]? He's got something like 129 strikeouts in 80 innings.

09-10-2004, 02:54 PM	#28
House of Pancakes Suicide's on the menu Posts: 914	In terms of dominating hitters, there are only three guys who come to my mind as being the best pitchers in the game this year: Randy Johnson, Johan Santana, and Jason Schmidt. All three have had their streaks of dominance. Schmidt had been dominant all season long and won 10 decisions in a row at one point, but lately he's been getting hit. Johnson should have 18-20 wins by now, but Arizona gives him no run support. He's been pretty great all season. Santana got lit up the first two months of the season, but since then he hasn't had ONE non-quality start and has a 1.5 ERA. Plus, he's 25. So take your pick from those three. I'll take Santana because of the youth factor and because he's been absolutely unhittable for three months. By the way, anybody notice that Brad Lidge has the highest K/9 ratio in history this year [I think]? He's got something like 129 strikeouts in 80 innings.