Re: Baseball musical chairs? Benitez to Mariners for Nelson.
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Garcia would be tough to give up on, IMO.
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Garcia has not proven anything yet. If I were the M's, I'd be happy to get a live body for him at this point. Consider these numbers:
year ERA WHIP
1999 4.07 1.47
2000 3.91 1.42
2001 3.05 1.12
2002 4.39 1.30
2003 5.57 1.44
Quick, which one of these is not like the others? That's right, 2001, when he won 18 games, and people started calling him a great pitcher. He hadn't done anything particularly great before 2001 , and he's gotten a lot worse since 2001. All of this while pitching half his games in a pretty good pitcher's park. I mean seriously... a 5.57 ERA? Even Colorado pitchers don't have ERA's that high. Garcia should be on the DL for the fork he has lodged in his back.
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