Oh, and
They’ve just announced the Comeback Player of the Year awards, which I didn’t think they were going to do until after the playoffs. That sort of voids the very next two articles I was going to write, huh.
They picked Tim Hudson, which is 100% completely insane (seriously, Tim Hudson? Where do you fools figure Tim Hudson went? He was awesome in 2008, was awesome last year until he got hurt, and then got better and was awesome again), and Fransisco Liriano, which is 100% completely correct.
For reference, I was going to pick Liriano and Pat Burrell, who legitimately did make a huge, unexpected comeback this season. Unless I got perverse and picked Carlos Zambrano. Did you see what the fuck he’s done since he came back? Seriously, here are his ERAs by month:
March/April: 6.56
May: 5.00
June: 5.01
July: 0.00 (but in only 0.2 IP, so it doesn’t really count)
August: 2.23
September/October: 1.10
I mean, holy shit. No lie, his xFIP has stayed appalling all year long, which indicates that it was mostly luck, but… holy shit.
