Originally Posted by
Brutus
This hating on Leake has gotten almost absurd. Think about this in context of his being a fifth starter. He has a career 4 FIP, essentially. This year his ERA+ was 93.
Now here is the worst starter's ERA+ for each of the other 15 NL teams:
ARI: 92
ATL: 92
CHI: 62
COL: 76
HOU: 76
LAD: 76
MIA: 88
MIL: 72
NYM: 79
PHI: 87
PIT: 74
SDP: 77
SFG: 67
STL: 97
WSH: 98
So there are literally 10-13 other teams in the National League that would love nothing more than to have Mike Leake on their team as he would improve all but two rotations in the league.
If Mike Leake is the guy that people are complaining about, Reds fans have gotten spoiled and too quickly forgotten who the Reds' 'ace' was during the previous 10 years. Leake would have been the Reds' best pitcher in some of those years, or very close to it. He's essentially a league average pitcher pitching as the fifth starter and that's not good enough? Yikes.