Well, I don't want to defend Rogers or any member of the Twins, but...
If you look at last year's Sox stats, Danny Wright had an ERA over a half run more than Jon Garland, and yet Wright won more games. Basically, what I'm saying is that when looking at how successful a pitcher was in a given year, wins/losses can be very misleading. The more telling number is ERA, and anything under 4 in the AL isn't bad -- especially for a guy that's going to be a 4th or 5th starter.
or that could mean era is very deceiving..
a pitcher could go 3 starts..21 ip give up 6 runs and win 3 games
his 4th start he goes 3 ip gives up 8 runs...
his record would be 3-1 with a 5.25 era...but he pitched well in 75% of his starts...thats kind of how danny pitched last year...he couldnt stay out of the big inning but if you look at the percentage if IP where he didnt give up any runs its probably up there with some of the betetr pitchers in baseball...
maybe ill come up with a new stats..percentage of shutout IP's to
pls dont there are to many stats involved in the game already.