2010 BCB COMMUNITY PROJECTIONS: RANDY WELLS

The opening of Randy Wells this year will go a prolonged approach toward revelation us how successful the Cubs will be. He wasn’t even on the radio detector a year ago at this time, but wound up winning twelve games, finishing 10th in the NL in ERA (sixth in ERA+), and sixth in Rookie of the Year voting.

Many of you have been disturbed which he’ll regress. Last year, I compared Wells multiform times to Kevin Tapani, a pitcher with a identical character who additionally took multiform years to have the vital leagues, and similar to Wells, had his initial full vital joining deteriorate at age 26.

In which 1990 season, Tapani wasn’t even utterly as great as Wells final year, nonetheless he was 12-8. His 4.07 ERA was a run aloft than Wells’, and even in the higher-offense American League, his ERA+ was usually 103. Like Wells, Tapani had glorious carry out (only twenty-nine walks in 159.1 innings), and he accomplished fifth in the 1990 AL ROY balloting.

What happened the following year? Tapani won sixteen games, forsaken his ERA some-more than a full run (2.99), and accomplished fifth in AL Cy Young voting.

Oh, and his team, the Twins, won the World Series. We’d take that.

Post your projections for Randy Wells’ 2010 deteriorate after the jump. (The form says Ryan Dempster, but the projections will go in to the Randy Wells apportionment of the spreadsheet.)