Johan Santana horror stories

[JEFFFESPERMAN]

I'm looking for historical perspective on Santana's 2005 season performances (the good, the bad and the ugly) to assist me in deciding whether to trade him now. The season is 8 games old, I play in Petco and his era 5.12 thanks to 14 homers allowed. The upside is that he has a WHIP of 1.14 and 64 strikeouts in 51 innings. What would you do?

[bigmahon]

[quote:a0e917566d]What would you do? [/quote:a0e917566d]

Keep him. :)

[rgimbel]

he is def 2nd best pitcher behind rj i have used him twice once in petco
he went 22-14 in petco low era and 18-13 in montreal low era make sure you have good def up the middle

keep him

[Detroit-Tigers]

Step 1: Look to see if Detroit Tigers is in your league.
Step 2: Trade to Detroit Tigers (if possible, use whatever means necissary)
Step 3: If not, then keep him

Santana does have a few BPHRs, so actually I only use him in pitcher's parks. But he is a decent pitcher so keep him (or trade to me).

[Rigged Splits]

I've had him twice. Once at the Metrodome in a no DH league where he was 18-6 with a 2.78 ERA. The other time was in a DH league at Petco. There he was getting his brains beat in and giving up tons of homers. I dumped him for Chris Carpenter and some hitting help and went from 11 games under to 10 games over making the playoffs....losing as usual.

[visick]

Keep him...unless you can trade him for RJ.