Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Blatant Homerism (Many a Pun Intended)

For those of you out there who might have been worried about Ryan Howard earlier this year, well, you can officially stop worrying. I guess he really was injured before that DL stint because his numbers since have been, well, Howardesque. Pre DL Stint: 98 ABs .204 AVG, 6 HRs, 23 RBIs, .809 OPS, 29 BBs - i.e. not the numbers of the reigning NL MVP. Since he took 12 games off in May, his numbers look like this: 88 ABs, .284 AVG, 10 HRs, 25 RBIs and his OPS has risen .128 to .937. Now that's the Ryan Howard I know and love. 13 of his last 27 hits have been dingers. That's impressive, even for him.

Speaking of figures that blow your mind, while accessing Ryan's seasonal stats, I stumbled across the annual salaries of everyone on the Phillies roster. Pat Burrell makes the most - a whopping $13.5 million - but I already knew that. And while I already knew some of these as well, it was the yearly salaries of our oh-so-wonderful pitching staff that really caught my attention. Here they are, in order, along with my reaction to them in parentheses:

1. Freddy Garcia, $10 million (shoot me)
2. John Lieber, $7.83 million (eh, that one's had 3 years to sink in)
3. Adam Eaton $7.21 million (shoot Pat Gillick)
4. Tom Gordon $7 million (gee, thats only $1.4 million per save this year! What a deal!)
5. Jamie Moyer, $6.5 million (I'm relatively okay with that)
6. Brett Myers $5.08 million (Jesusfuckingchrist hurry back)
7. Jose Mesa - no, read that again - JOSE MESA, $2.5 million (why the fuck haven't you shot me yet?!)
8. Ryan Madson, $1.1 million (just pass me the fucking gun, I'll do it myself)
11. Cole Hamels, $400 thousand (someone give this man a raise)

Note: Geary and Alfonseca are 9 and 10, respectively, but neither of them makes more than 900K and therefore got no real reaction from me.

Also, Burrell makes 14.7 times more than Howard this season. I'm just hoping Ryan doesn't use that as leverage when it comes time to renegotiate his contract.

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