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Pavano looked well above average...

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you are [censored] retarded. great, he looked well above average - his ERA for the year is still 4.76. In fact, that's a pretty good over/under for his ERA for the year, though taking the over still seems like a safe bet.

Jaret Wright had plenty of starts like this - if Pavano strikes out 2 batters per 7 innings, he is not likely to have great success.

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There's zero reason to call anyone retarded, as Karak said.

What you're saying though, doesn't make much sense. Yeah, 4.76 ERA... through two games. Great sample size. Sure, it's 4.76, but the guy hasn't thrown in over a year, and for anyone who hasn't thrown in as long as he has, these first two starts look as promising as anything.

Since when do you have to strikeout every player to have great success? Wang had great success last year, and he hurled exactly 1 K for every 3 IP.

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I was out of line calling him retarded - I apologize.

Wang is an anomaly and forces more ground balls than Pavano.

He has the rest of his career as a good sample - his career doesn't look like Roger Clemens. It looks like an average pitcher. Hopefully he can provide us with around a 5 ERA who can get into the 7th enough so our terminally overworked bullpen doesn't have to throw a million innings again this year.