Fantasy Baseball: NL Sub-3.50 ERA Leaderboard

by Ray Guilfoyle on Oct 10, 2009 4:31 PM EDT in Baseball Comment 0 comments

When entering a draft, everyone wants that stud starting pitcher who will not only get them double digit wins, but also a solid ERA and WHIP and a mess of strikeouts. Today I look at the NL leaders in ERA, focusing on the starting pitchers who gave you a sub-3.50 ERA. What you will notice is these pitchers also gave you solid WHIP figures.

Let's take a look after the jump:

Player	INN	GS	QS	CG	W	L	K	BB	ERA	WHIP	K/BB
Carpenter, Chris SP STL	193	28	22	3	17	4	144	38	2.24	1.01	3.789
Lincecum, Tim SP SF	225	32	26	4	15	7	261	68	2.48	1.05	3.838
Jurrjens, Jair SP ATL	215	34	25	0	14	10	152	75	2.60	1.21	2.027
Wainwright, Adam SP STL	233	34	25	1	19	8	212	66	2.63	1.21	3.212
Kershaw, Clayton SP LA	171	30	16	0	8	8	185	91	2.79	1.23	2.033
Vazquez, Javier SP ATL	219	32	22	3	15	10	238	44	2.87	1.03	5.409
Cain, Matt SP SF	218	33	20	4	14	8	171	73	2.89	1.18	2.342
Hanson, Tommy SP ATL	128	21	12	0	11	4	116	46	2.89	1.18	2.522
Happ, J.A. SP PHI	166	23	14	3	12	4	119	56	2.93	1.23	2.125
Rodriguez, Wandy SP HOU	206	33	23	1	14	12	193	63	3.02	1.24	3.063
Santana, Johan SP NYM	167	25	17	0	13	9	146	46	3.13	1.21	3.174
Haren, Dan SP ARI	229	33	24	3	14	10	223	38	3.14	1.00	5.868
Lee, Cliff SP PHI	232	34	24	6	14	13	181	43	3.22	1.24	4.209
Wolf, Randy SP LA	214	34	24	0	11	7	160	58	3.23	1.10	2.759
Johnson, Josh SP FLA	209	33	23	2	15	5	191	58	3.23	1.16	3.293
Jimenez, Ubaldo SP COL	218	33	24	1	15	12	198	85	3.47	1.23	2.329
Pineiro, Joel SP STL	214	32	21	3	15	12	105	27	3.49	1.14	3.889

A handful of these guys were probably not on many drafters radar at their 2009 drafts including Clayton Kershaw, J.A. Happ, Randy Wolf, and Joel Pineiro, but they all gave you solid performance throughout the year. Everybody on this list, with the exception of Kershaw, gave you double digit wins as well. Take out Wolf, Tommy Hanson and J.A. Happ, and they all gave you 13 wins or more.

All except Pineiro, Happ and Carpenter gave you sold strikeout totals for those in 5x5 leagues. Hanson gave you 116 K's in 128 innings, so he could breach the 200 K level in 2010 if he can make 30 starts.

I am curious of Johan Santana is a top 5 starting pitcher in NL leagues in 2010?

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