The one year wonder started his reality climb a few months early...Cubs

Hoopster

Yup,

Ryan Dempster is the latest version of the one year wonder, pitching well above his head for most of the year, and finishing with an ERA that is far ahead of his career ERA as a starter. I figured he would come to reality in the second half(he did a bit).

It turns out he didn't wait until next year to show his true colors. Too bad for the Cubs as they have two starting pitchers on the bench tonight who are much better.

Here's hoping the Cubs overcome this and can score off Billingsley tomorrow.

A bit of advice to the CUbs new management, don't break the bank on Dempster for next year. Let somebody else pay for Esteban Loaiza, I mean Ryan Dempster.

joestalin

I thought the Cubs were already in the world series...what happened?

Sincerely,
Why they play the games

aro13

hoopster - While it was a career year in no way was he lucky. He allowed only 14 homers and he did have 187 K's in 206 innings. His hits allowed were right where they should be.

His control has never been great and that is what deserted him in game one but his season was legit.

Hyperion

+1

poor cubbies

joestalin

da da daa da da..

Im lovin it

Hoopster

Aro,

One can be lucky, even though his hit totals and strikeout totals show that he pitched in line with his ERA. In Loaiza's lucky year his k/bb ratio was superb, as was his hit per IP. Yet he regressed the following year right back to what his previous seven years were...which is mediocre to bad.

Dempster's poor control is his m/o, and I would expect it to come back and haunt him more next year(like it did in game 1). With the amount of walks he gives, a simple reverting to the low 20's in HR allowed, will plump up his ERA.