Milone's ERA on the road is nearly a run and a half higher than it is at home for his career, with awful peripherals to match. Take him out of the Coliseum, and he's a really bad pitcher.

 

In general, pitchers pitch better at their home ballpark. Milone will pitch even better than that at the Coliseum because it is a pitcher's ball park. It doesn't mean he'd be a gas can if he were to pitch in a hitter's park. He'd adjust to his surroundings and he'd be a fairly good pitcher.

 

Is it because he doesn't fit your vision of a pitcher? Mid 90s, great secondary stuff, big K's, low walks? You seem to be singing the same tune for John Danks yet suggested the Sox trade Danks for Edwin Jackson.

1) Beane has already said on numerous occasions that Chavez and Kazmir (look at their IP totals from 2010-2013) are going to have to be rested down the stretch, as well as being extra careful with Gray....and that there was no way he saw those three and the Cubs' additions being the only starters from the time of that trade.

 

2) He was something like 6-0 with a 2.60 ERA over his last 11 starts, so even if he was on the market, it would take more than any package we could put together short of Alexei Ramirez.

 

3) Beane will not put the interests of one valuable pitcher over the plan he set up for the last three months of the season (as well as the playoffs).

Edited July 24, 201411 yr by caulfield12