Baseball DIY

I was screwing around at work the other day. Imagine that. The following list consists of pitchers who are within twenty Batters Faced of Matt Morris (850). I looked at their BB, K, and HR-allowed totals.

Miguel Batista: 96...104...22
Eric Milton: 75...161...43
Jason Johnson: 60...125...22
John Lackey: 60...144...22
Kris Benson: 61...134...15
Nate Robertson: 66...155...30
Matt Morris: 56...131...35
Javier Vazquez: 60...150...33
Adam Eaton: 52...153...28
Dontrelle Willis: 61...139...20
Ted Lilly: 89...168...26
Kirk Rueter: 66...56 (not a typo)...21

From these pitchers, I'd take Kris Benson, but that's because I value keeping the ball in the ballpark over strikeouts (which aren't half-bad either).

The average salary for the pitchers on that list is $4.52 million. Matt Morris brings that average up with his $12.5 million salary (Dontrelle made $353,500!), followed by Javier Vazquez ($9 million), and Benson ($6.15 million). Assuming he comes back from surgery healthy, Morris's $2.5 million 2005 salary will look like quite a bargain.